[1] Perry returned to Melbourne in 1914 to attend the National Gallery of Victoria Art School where she was a student of Bernard Hall and Frederick McCubbin.

Some of her best landscape work was undertaken at Austinmer NSW when she was periodically lent the holiday house of her art dealer John Young (see the last external link).

[11] In the war years, Perry found opportunities to exhibit with a wide range of artists with established reputations at the Macquarie Galleries including Julian Ashton, Donald Friend, William Dobell, Roland Wakelin, Lloyd Rees, Thea Proctor, and Arthur Fleischmann.

[12] In 1944, Perry she showed her drawings at the Macquarie Galleries alongside Thea Proctor, Daryl Lindsay, Arthur Murch, James Cook and Douglas Dundas.

However, there were more established artists such as Arthur Murch, Lloyd Rees, Margaret Preston, Roy Wakelin and Perry who "had come up with quiet, sober and considered work that still had punch in it".

Grishin does identify her early work, the simple relief prints, "as using the medium to its full potential" and they compared favourably to her contemporaries such as Margaret Preston, Thea Proctor, Ethel Spowers and Vera Blackburn, the latter whom she taught at her Sydney art school.

[18] 1995: The retrospective exhibition Overlooked But Not Forgotten, works by Adelaide Perry and her students, was held at the Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University.

2001: Adelaide Perry Gallery established by Presbyterian Ladies' College, Croydon, NSW to "broaden students’ experience and knowledge of art, design and curatorial practice".