After completing her time there she returned to Washington, where she would become a major figure in local artistic circles.
She also belonged to the Washington Society of Fine Arts and the Washington Handicraft guild, and showed work at Corcoran exhibitions both regionally and nationally; other venues at which she exhibited included the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts[2] and the New York Watercolor Club.
[1] Perrie exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
[3] Among the awards which Perrie received during her career were the first and second Corcoran prizes at the Washington Water Color Club's 1904 and 1900 exhibitions and a silver medal in the Appalachian Exposition of 1910.
[1] Three of her pieces, an etching of William S. McPherson[5] and two paintings, a watercolor of flowers[6] and an oil on canvas of a harbor scene in Gloucester,[7] are owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.