About Henry Pearlman: Coda, Daniel Edelman

My name is Daniel Edelman, and on behalf of the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation I would like to thank you for visiting this exhibition. Henry Pearlman surrounded himself with art. He traveled in pursuit of new works for his collection. He visited places and sought out friends to learn about the artists and their process. The walls of his home and office were crowded with the results. As a collector, he enjoyed an experience available to very few of us. He spent hours and years in the company of a single work, absorbing it over time, perceiving changes as if it were alive, perhaps coming to know the work as intimately as the artist had. Henry Pearlman was also a generous lender, just as excited to share the artworks in his collection as he was interested in what could be learned from showing them in exhibitions, juxtaposed with other works. The mission of the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation, which he created, is to broaden the public reach of art and deepen our personal experience of it while conserving the original works for future audiences. This tour—the first in over thirty-five years, and the first time the collection will travel outside the northeastern United States—aims to bring these important works of art to new places and new audiences. Visitors to the five hosting museums will find themselves in the company of some of the forward-looking artists of Impressionism at their most modern moments. We hope that this publication and the accompanying websites will extend the visitor’s glimpse and perhaps, by removing constraints of time and place, approximate the delight of renewable discovery that a collector enjoys. The result of an invaluable collaboration with Princeton University and its Art Museum, and marked by considerable new research and insights, these published and online resources should be revisited long after the works have been returned home.