Philip Pearlstein: Objectifications
Philip Pearlstein: Objectifications
October 19, 2008 - February 1, 2009
This exhibition displays 40 works, including Pearlstein’s first, award-winning high school work, Merry-Go-Round; his expressionist works of the 1950s; his signature, post-1961 female and male studio nudes; lesser-known landscapes and cityscapes; and a selection of his portraits. Among these works is an elaborate object still-life assemblage that was used in the most recent painting, Two Models and Four Whirly – Gigs, as well as three of his nude figurative works that depict his favorite model of recent years, Kilolo Kumanyika, a resident of
Group Tours may be booked by phoning 973-259-5167, or by emailing tours@montclairartmuseum.org
Philip Pearlstein: Objectifications is made possible with support from The Sydney and Francis Lewis Foundation, the Judith Targan Endowment Fund, and The Cowles Charitable Trust. This exhibition was selected by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as part of the American Masterpieces Series in New Jersey. American Masterpieces is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Sub Navigation
- On View
- Traveling
- Upcoming
- Past
- The Spectacular of Vernacular
- Stacy Pearsall: Selections from Baqubah, Iraq
- Engaging Nature
- Warhol and Cars: American Icons
- Robert Mapplethorpe Flowers: Selections from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection
- Will Barnet: Centennial Celebration
- A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund
- Living for Art: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
- Potters, Patrons, and Promises: Gifts from Audrey and Norbert Gaelen
- What Is Portraiture
- Dulce Pinzon: The Real Story of the Superheroes
- The Wyeths: Three Generations
- Cezanne and American Modernism
- American Figurative Works 1908-1940: The Soyer Bequest
- Myths, Memories, and Inspirations
- Out of the Vault: 95 Years of Collecting at MAM
- Reflecting Culture: The Evolution of American Comic Book Superheroes
- Drawing Friends: Hedda Sterne's Portraititis
- Eloquent Vistas: The Art of Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography
- Will Barnet: Recent Works
- Morgan Russell and His Modern Mentors
- Tribal Roots in the Garden State: 2008 New Jersey Arts Annual Crafts
- Kay Walkingstick's American Abstraction: Dialogue with the Cosmos
- Philip Pearlstein: Objectifications
- Anxious Objects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands
