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Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Published 1970. Paperback, unpaginated; 22 x 25 cm (oblong); illustrated with 80 black-and-white plates and a photographic portrait of the artist by Saul Leiter. Preface by William D. Paul, Jr.; essay by Linda Nochlin.
In Good condition. Glossy tan card covers, brown lettering to front. Moderate shelf and edge wear: bumping and creasing to edges and corners, nicking to paper at foot of spine, two 1/4-inch nicks to bottom edge of rear cover with creasing between, some scuffing. Damp staining along top edge of front cover. Spine creased, binding intact. Mild toning to inside of covers; spotting along gutter of first and last leaves and along top edge of text block. Otherwise unmarked. Laid in: printed card extending the closing date at Vassar College Art Gallery to 18 April 1971. Catalog of a 1970-71 exhibition of 80 paintings and drawings by Philip Pearlstein (1924-2022), organized by the Georgia Museum of Art with the Wichita Art Museum and the Vassar College Art Gallery. The works run from 1956 to 1970, from early expressionist landscapes such as Mountain Wall (1956) to the realist figure paintings and portraits of the 1960s, among them Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Pommer (1968). Linda Nochlin's essay, "The Art of Philip Pearlstein: Realism is Alive and Well in Georgia, Kansas and Poughkeepsie," sets his realism against Pop and the reductive abstraction of the decade. Includes a catalogue of the works with medium, dimensions and lenders, a detailed chronology from his birth in Pittsburgh in 1924, and a selected bibliography. Printed by the University of Georgia Printing Department in Bodoni type; designed by Willard Pilchard.