© 2014 Philip Pearlstein
Currently not on view
Model Boat,
1993
Philip Pearlstein, American, born 1924
2011-170
More Context
A friend and fellow classmate of Andy Warhol at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pearlstein moved to New York in 1949. After obtaining a masters degree in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, in the 1960s he developed an influential realist painting style that concentrated on the human figure at a time when Pop and Minimalist art were at the height of fashion. While his distinctive paintings of the female nude set in informal domestic interiors often appear unimpassioned and analytic, they present fragmented views of the body as glimpsed from unusual angles, creating a startlingly haphazard effect.
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Title
Model Boat
Dates
1993
Maker
Medium
Color aquatint
Dimensions
plate: 31.7 x 32.7 cm. (12 1/2 x 12 7/8 in.)
sheet (sight): 36.7 × 37.2 cm (14 7/16 × 14 5/8 in.)
frame: 54 × 54.2 × 3.5 cm (21 1/4 × 21 5/16 × 1 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Michael Rips, Class of 1976
Object Number
2011-170
Place Made
North America, United States
Inscription
Editioned, titled, signed and dated in ink, bottom: 8//35 Model Boat / Philip Pearlstein 93
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