01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 67

Philip Pearlstein, (b. 1924)

Seated nude, 2003

Oil on panel

10 x 20 cm - 4 x 7 7/8 in.

Private collection

Philip Pearlstein, born on May 24, 1924 in Pittsburgh, PA, is an influential American painter best known for Modernist Realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art museums. 

Pearlstein attended classes at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art. In 1942, at the age of 18, two of his paintings won a national competition sponsored by Scholastic Magazine, and were reproduced in color in Life magazine.

He was drafted by the US Army to serve during World War II and initially assigned to the Training Aids Unit where he produced charts, weapon assembly diagrams and signs. In this role, he learned printmaking and the screenprinting process, and subsequently was stationed in Italy, where he took in as much renaissance art as was accessible in Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan, and also produced numerous drawings depicting life in the Army.

In 1950 Philip enrolled in the Masters in Art History program at New York University Institute of Fine Arts. After graduation, he was hired by Life Magazine to do page layouts, and was then awarded a Fulbright Hays fellowship, enabling him to return to Italy for a year. Finally, from 1963 to 1988, he was Professor, and then Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College, in Brooklyn, NY. More on Philip Pearlstein

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