In the mid-1940s, as abstract expressionist painters like Jackson Pollock and Clyfford Still honed their craft into the earth-shattering movement it would soon become, the human figure all but ...
Philip Pearlstein painting in his studio in 1993 (all photos courtesy Betty Cuningham Gallery) In a cramped loft in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, Philip Pearlstein painted every day for 30 years, ...
Sometime during the early 1950s — mainly in progressive art schools, studios and journals — a strange and sometimes frenzied rumble of voices began to swell. This lynch-thirsty chorus was made up of ...