Dolly Perutz

Perutz was born in Beroun, just outside of Prague, Austria Hungary.^[3][4] Perutz was Jewish; when the Germans occupied Czechoslovakia in 1938, she and her husband Tino Perutz decided to move to the United States.^[5][4]

Examples of Perutz's work are included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art,^[2] the Brooklyn Museum,^[6] the New York Public Library^[7] and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.^[8] Her sculpture Bird Flying Machine is part of the collection of the New York City Parks department, and is on display on the roof of the Arsenal, Central Park.^[9]