Philip Martin Pearlstein was an American painter best known for Modernist Realist nudes.
12 Facts About Philip Pearlstein
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Philip Pearlstein graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School in 1942.
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Philip Pearlstein was initially assigned to the Training Aids Unit at Camp Blanding, Florida, where he produced charts, weapon assembly diagrams, and signs.
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In 1950, Philip Pearlstein married Dorothy Cantor, with Andy Warhol in the wedding party.
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The Pearlsteins moved to East 4th Street, taking over an apartment from fellow figure painter Lester Johnson, and Philip enrolled in the Masters in Art History program at New York University Institute of Fine Arts.
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Philip Pearlstein's thesis was on artist Francis Picabia, evaluating Cubism, Abstract art, Dada and Surrealism, graduating in 1955.
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In 1961 Philip Pearlstein began to make paintings of nude couples based upon his drawings, and in 1962 he began painting directly from the model in a less painterly and more realistic style.
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Philip Pearlstein's work is in many museums collections in the United States, including:.
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Philip Pearlstein received numerous awards including the National Council of Arts Administrators Visual Artist Award; The Benjamin West Clinedinst Memorial Medal, The Artists Fellowship, Inc.
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Philip Pearlstein was a former president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Dorothy Cantor Philip Pearlstein died in 2018 at the age of 90.
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Philip Pearlstein died at a hospital in Manhattan on December 17,2022, at the age of 98.