Philip Pearlstein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1924. He grew up in Pittsburgh and in 1944 enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He spent three years in the Army and then... Read full biography
Philip Pearlstein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1924. He grew up in Pittsburgh and in 1944 enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He spent three years in the Army and then returned to Carnegie, graduating in 1949 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He pursued graduate studies... Read full biography
Philip Pearlstein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1924. He grew up in Pittsburgh and in 1944 enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He spent three years in the Army and then returned to Carnegie, graduating in 1949 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He pursued graduate studies in art history at New York University and received a Masters Degree there in 1956. Pearlstein rapidly became involved with the dominant orthodoxy of Abstract Expressionism. But in 1958, after a visit... Read full biography
Philip Pearlstein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1924. He grew up in Pittsburgh and in 1944 enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He spent three years in the Army and then returned to Carnegie, graduating in 1949 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He pursued graduate studies in art history at New York University and received a Masters Degree there in 1956. Pearlstein rapidly became involved with the dominant orthodoxy of Abstract Expressionism. But in 1958, after a visit to Italy, he began to realize that he was still at bottom a realist draftsman. He painted with a kind of weighty probity that Courbet would have approved. He tried painting landscapes, but kept coming back to the female figure. Nothing is fudged or... Read full biography
Philip Pearlstein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1924. He grew up in Pittsburgh and in 1944 enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He spent three years in the Army and then returned to Carnegie, graduating in 1949 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He pursued graduate studies in art history at New York University and received a Masters Degree there in 1956. Pearlstein rapidly became involved with the dominant orthodoxy of Abstract Expressionism. But in 1958, after a visit to Italy, he began to realize that he was still at bottom a realist draftsman. He painted with a kind of weighty probity that Courbet would have approved. He tried painting landscapes, but kept coming back to the female figure. Nothing is fudged or romanticized, all the attention is focused on an absolute truth of contour,the precise sensation of bunched, knotted or slack muscle, the interpl... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (152)
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100 New York Painters
2006
Dantzic, Cynthia Maris
224 pages (color)
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
Abstract Expressionism and the New American Realism
2001
Butler, Tom (essay)
22 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Majesty of the Grand Canyon 150 Years in Art
1998
Kinsey, Joni Louise
159 pages (color)
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996
Hopps, Walter (others)
320 pages (color)
Landfall Press: Twenty-Five Years Of Printmaking
1996
Ruzicka, Joseph
220 pages (color)
Selections From the Permanent Collection: Southern Alleghenies
1996
Strueber, Michael (Director)
118 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
Printmaking in America Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990
1995
Hansen, Trudy (others)
248 pages (color)
Art Today
1995
Lucie-Smith, Edward
512 pages (color)
American Realism-Figurative Painting Cline Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Arthur, John (Curator and Essayist)
64 pages (color)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
The Art of Watercolor (Revised Edition)
1994
LeClair, Charles
144 pages
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
Paintings of the Southwest
1994
Skolnick, Arnold/Suzan Campbell
128 pages
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art A Handbook of the Collection
1993
Ward, Roger and Patricia J Fidler (Compilers and Editors)
414 pages (color)
A Nation's Legacy 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Columbus Museum of Art
198 pages (color)
Contemporary Art 1965-1990
1992
Kurtz, Bruce D
256 pages (color)
Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970
1992
Seitz, William C
250 pages (color)
American Paintings and Sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art
1992
Strazdes, Diana
511 pages (color)
Printmaking in New Mexico 1880-1990
1991
Adams, Clinton
167 pages (color)
Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook (of the Collection)
1991
Cleveland Museum of Art
161 pages
Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
1991
Hoffman, Katherine
400 pages (color)
Mary & Crosby Kemper Collection Selections from Inaugural Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Kemper Gallery Kansas City AI
28 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
Anecdotes of Modern Art From Rousseau to Warhol
1990
Hall, Donald/Pat C Wykes
377 pages
Nothing If Not Critical Selected Essays on Art and Artists
1990
Hughes, Robert
429 pages
Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes
196 pages (color)
American Art/American Vision Paintings from a Century of Collecting (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Schall, Ellen (others)
164 pages (color)
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen
230 pages (color)
Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Painting
1989
Arthur, John
159 pages (color)
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
An American Collection Paintings and Sculpture from the NAD (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Gerdts, Abigail Booth
208 pages (color)
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Handbook of the Collections
1989
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
198 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
American Realist Painting 1945-1980
1989
Ward, John L
431 pages
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Philip Pearlstein Drawings and Watercolors
1988
Perreault, John
210 pages (color)
A Concise History of Modern Painting
1988
Read, Herbert
418 pages (color)
American Art of the 1960s
1988
Sandler, Irving
412 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors from the Wadsworth Atheneum
1987
Barter, Judith A; Eugene R. Gaddis (Intro)
94 pages (color)
Transformation of the Avant-Garde The New York Art World 1940-1985
1987
Crane, Diana
194 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Realism Today: American Drawings from the Rita Rich Collection National Academy of Design (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Dobkin, John (Preface); John I.H. Baer, (Essay)
120 pages (color)
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
Capturing the Canyon: Artists in the Grand Canyon
1987
Mitchem, Holly (Essay); Tray Mead (Editor)
42 pages (color)
America: Art and the West (Australian exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Adams, Celeste Marie
130 pages (color)
American Watercolors
1986
Finch, Christopher
312 pages (color)
An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Hunter, Sam
269 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
50 New York Artists
1986
Marshall, Richard
118 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center A History and Selections from the Collection
1986
Piazza, Paul/Marshall Sprague
210 pages (color)
Artists Observed
1986
Stein, Harvey
160 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors In The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Adams, Henry; John Caldwell, John Lane et all
314 pages (color)
Cinquante Ans de Dessins Americai 1930-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Ecole Nationale/Beaux-Arts
290 pages (color)
The Revenge of the Philistines Art and Culture 1972-1984
1985
Kramer, Hilton
445 pages
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
The American West The Modern Vision
1984
Broder, Patricia Janis
345 pages (color)
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Selections from Permanent Collection
1984
Chicago, Museum Contemporary
164 pages (color)
Twentieth Century American Drawin The Figure in Context (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Cummings, Paul
144 pages
Twentieth Century American Drawin from the Arkansas Arts Center (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Glover, John/Townsend Wolfe
95 pages
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
The Figure in 20th Century American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Sims, Lowery Stokes
167 pages (color)
American Printmaking A Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980
1984
Watrous, James
334 pages (color)
Philip Pearlstein The Complete Paintings
1983
Bowman, Russell
363 pages (color)
100 Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections Washington D C
1983
Brown, Milton W
240 pages (color)
The Art of New York
1983
Chwast, Seymour/S Heller
190 pages
Perspectives on Contemporary American Realism (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Goodyear, Frank H
91 pages (color)
The Artist's Studio In American Painting 1840-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Gregg, Richard N
64 pages
Prints A Collector's Guide
1983
Kaplan, Ellen
253 pages
Philip Pearlstein Painting to Watercolors (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Shaman, Sanford Savitz
44 pages (color)
American Works on Paper 100 Years of American Art History (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Smith Kramer Art Connections
113 pages (color)
Art of the Real Nine American Figurative Painters
1983
Strand, Mark (editor)
240 pages (color)
The American Artist as Printmaker (Exhibition catalog)