PIRY RAME (1921 - 2001)

  Piry Rame was born in Czechoslovakia and came to the US when she was 16. . She graduated Hunter College and took up painting after graduation. She then studied at the Art Students League and at Pratt Institute. She later studied under Leo Manso, Larry Rivers and Jerry Okimoto. Piry Rame started the cooperative gallery Pilades on Wooster Street in Soho and was a member of the Artist Students League in Great Neck where she maintained her studio. She had many shows including shows held at the Roslyn Library, the Glen Cove Library, The Roslyn Museum and Brandeis University. Piry Rame also exhibited at several museum shows and numerous galleries including the Meryl Chase Gallery in Chicago. She died in December 2001 at the age of 80