Upon graduation, he moved to New Mexico to pursue his Master's Degree in Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico. At that time, his favorite artists were the early painters of southern Indiana who painted the landscape in which he grew up painters like T. His early work focused on the landscape, but also included still-lifes and city scenes. Each year while attending university, he was invited to stage an annual exhibit of his work. He left Indiana to pursue an undergraduate degree at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Oklahoma. After high school, he studied at the Chicago Academy of Art. During high school he studied at John Herron Institute of Art in Indianapolis. He discovered that he had a talent for art while in elementary school. He was raised in the country, and developed a love for the natural landscape. Tom Perkinson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. Tom Perkinson is known for Natural large scale landscape painting, surrealism, teaching. Tom Perkinson (Born 1940) is active/lives in New Mexico, Oklahoma.

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