Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
Philip Pearlstein was a key figure in the sharp-focus realist movement. A leader in the early 1960s of the revival of figure painting in America, Pearlstein experimented briefly with landscapes and then concentrated on the realistic depiction of the nude figure, a traditional subject that had almost vanished from the contemporary art world.
Pearlstein’s paintings, prints and drawings are characterized by a non-traditional informality, unexpected postures, and unusual perspectives including the radical cropping of figures. In his later works, he introduced rather elaborate backdrops including richly patterned fabrics and decorative floor patterns.
Pearlstein was born and grew up in Pittsburgh and in 1944 enrolled at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He spent three years in the Army and then returned to school, graduating in 1949 with a BFA. Pearlstein pursued graduate studies in art history at New York University and received a master's degree in 1955. Although he briefly pursued Abstract Expressionism, he found his mature subject matter during the 1960s when he evolved his signature highly finished-hard edged, objective studies of the nude figure. Pearlstein earned awards from the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
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1970s Contemporary Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1980s Modern Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1980s Realist Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1980s Realist Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1970s Realist Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1990s American Realist Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1970s Contemporary Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1970s Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1990s American Realist Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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Early 2000s Contemporary Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1960s Contemporary Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1960s Surrealist Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1940s American Realist Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1940s Realist Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1970s Realist Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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Early 1900s Modern Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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Early 20th Century Modern Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1970s Modern Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1970s Realist Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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Mid-19th Century Surrealist Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1930s Realist Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1970s Realist Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1960s Modern Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1970s Modern Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1960s Contemporary Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1970s Modern Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1990s Photorealist Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1960s Contemporary Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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Late 20th Century American Modern Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1980s Realist Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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2010s Contemporary Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1970s Contemporary Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1980s Photorealist Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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1990s American Realist Philip Pearlstein Nude Prints
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