Bernard Perlin showed that he was an artist from an early age, but his creative maturation was a process that played out over the many decades of his career. Critics were sometimes confused, but in... Read full biography
Bernard Perlin showed that he was an artist from an early age, but his creative maturation was a process that played out over the many decades of his career. Critics were sometimes confused, but in retrospect one can easily see the threads that tie together Perlin's works from the 1940's to the... Read full biography
Bernard Perlin showed that he was an artist from an early age, but his creative maturation was a process that played out over the many decades of his career. Critics were sometimes confused, but in retrospect one can easily see the threads that tie together Perlin's works from the 1940's to the 1970's: painstaking technique and glowing color. Perlin's appearance as a professional artist coincided with the United States' entry into the Second World War. Perlin was engaged by the Office of War... Read full biography
Bernard Perlin showed that he was an artist from an early age, but his creative maturation was a process that played out over the many decades of his career. Critics were sometimes confused, but in retrospect one can easily see the threads that tie together Perlin's works from the 1940's to the 1970's: painstaking technique and glowing color. Perlin's appearance as a professional artist coincided with the United States' entry into the Second World War. Perlin was engaged by the Office of War Information to create posters to motivate the populace in favor of the war effort. His vigorous images propagandized for patriotism with dynamic arrangements of massive forms and figures. By 1944 Perlin was sent overseas to witness the action... Read full biography
Bernard Perlin showed that he was an artist from an early age, but his creative maturation was a process that played out over the many decades of his career. Critics were sometimes confused, but in retrospect one can easily see the threads that tie together Perlin's works from the 1940's to the 1970's: painstaking technique and glowing color. Perlin's appearance as a professional artist coincided with the United States' entry into the Second World War. Perlin was engaged by the Office of War Information to create posters to motivate the populace in favor of the war effort. His vigorous images propagandized for patriotism with dynamic arrangements of massive forms and figures. By 1944 Perlin was sent overseas to witness the action firsthand. Perlin's World War II reportage, for Life and Fortune magazines, transcended the simple function of conveying... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (39)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
American Abstract Expressionism (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Thistlewood, David (editor)
230 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
American Realist Painting 1945-1980
1989
Ward, John L
431 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Mecklenburg, Virginia
148 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The Fine Line Drawing with Silver in America (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Weber, Bruce
103 pages
Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler
195 pages (color)
Posters/World War l & World War ll George C Marshall Research Foundation
1979
Crawford, Anthony R
128 pages
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections
1974
Gidley, Mick
58 pages
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
A History of American Art
1973
Mendelowitz, Daniel M
662 pages
Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor
1971
Graham, F Lanier
111 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 pages (color)
Six Americans
1970
Townsend, Wolfe
16 pages
Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964 (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Baur, John I H
91 pages (color)
Art U S A Now (2 volumes)
1962
Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness
474 pages (color)
American Art of Our Century
1961
Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur
309 pages (color)
Conversations with Artists 35 Painters, Sculptors and Architects
1961
Rodman, Selden
234 pages
Magazine Illustration
1959
Marshall, Francis
96 pages
Fulbright Painters: Exhibits Organized by the Smithsonian Institution in Cooperation with the Institute of International Education (Exhibition catalog)
1958
Goodrich, Lloyd
48 pages
Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956 (Exhibition catalog)
1957
Brooklyn Museum
72 pages
Three Hundred Years of American Painting
1957
Eliot, Alexander
318 pages (color)
American Artists Paint the City (38th Biennale/Venice 1956) (Exhibition catalog)
1956
Kuh, Katherine
47 pages (color)
American Painting Today
1956
Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed)
127 pages (color)
The New Decade 35 American Painters and Sculptors (Exhibition catalog)
1955
Baur, John I H/Rosalind Irvine
96 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index