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1918 Richmond, Virginia - 2014 Ridgefield, Connecticut. Known for: Modernist figure-genre and still life painting, poster art.
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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Keywords (54)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Poster Art, Poster Design
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstract Figurative, Human Figure
- •Abstraction and Realism; Semi Abstract
- •Magic Realism
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Botanics, Plant Life
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Nocturnes, Nightime Scenes
- •Nude Figure, Nudity
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Social Realism
- •Still Life
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
- •War Scenes, Military Genre, Figure, Portrait, Battles
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Asia, Orient
- •Europe
Art Teacher
- •Leon Kroll
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •National Academy of Design School, New York, Student
- •New York School of Interior Design, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Chaloner Prize from National Academy of Design
- •Fulbright Grant, Fellowship
- •John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Sara Roby Foundation
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Combat, War Artist: Illustration, Painting or Photography
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
- •LIFE Magazine Illustrator, Photographer
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Knoedler Gallery, New York City
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Detroit Institute of Art
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts