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2018

Philip Pearlstein, Today, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, May 10 – June 17

Philip Pearlstein, Paintings 1990- 2017, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom, January 17 – April 29

2017

Facing You, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY, May 5, 2017 — June 30, 2017

Philip Pearlstein: Seventy-Five Years of Painting, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, February 11, 2017 — May 21, 2017

2016

G.I. Philip Pearlstein, World War II Captured on Paper, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, September 14 – October 15

2015–2016

Pearlstein | Warhol | Cantor: From Carnegie Tech to New York, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY, Dec. 3 – March 5, 2016

2014

Philip Pearlstein, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY, May 8 – July 27

Pearlstein at 90, Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL, April 4 – May 31

Philip Pearlstein: Six Paintings, Six Decades, National Academy of Art, New York, NY, Feb. 27 – May 11

Philip Pearlstein – Just The Facts, 50 Years of Looking and Drawing and Painting, Curated by Robert Storr, New York Studio School, New York, NY, January 16 – February 22

2013

Philip Pearlstein’s People, Places, Things, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, March 2 – June 16

Philip Pearlstein, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY, February 21 – March 30

2011

Philip Pearlstein: Recent Paintings, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX, Oct. 29 – Dec. 10.

Philip Pearlstein, Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, Oct. 20 – Nov. 18

Philip Pearlstein: Oevres Récentes, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France, Feb. 26 – April 9

2010

Philip Pearlstein, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY, Nov. 4 – Dec. 18

Philip Pearlstein: Paintings and Watercolors (1990-2008). Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI, Oct. 1 – Nov. 27

2009–10

Pearlstein/Held, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY, Nov. 19 – Feb. 13, 2010

2009

Philip Pearlstein: Recent Works, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT, Sept. 25 – Nov. 24

2008–09

Philip Pearlstein: Objectifications, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, Oct. 19 – Feb. 1

2008

Philip Pearlstein, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK, September

Philip Pearlstein: Early Paintings and Drawings, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany, Sept. 5 – Oct. 18

Philip Pearlstein: Then and Now, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, June 26 – August 6

Philip Pearlstein, Paintings and Watercolors, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA, February 2 – 27

2007

Philip Pearlstein, Paintings, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL

Philip Pearlstein: Paintings and Watercolors 1990 – 2007, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

Philip Pearlstein, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY

Philip Pearlstein, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France

2006–08

Philip Pearlstein, The Dispassionate Body, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN; travels to: James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA

Philip Pearlstein, American Master. Paintings, watercolors and studio objects, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, PA

2005

Philip Pearlstein, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY, September 15 – October 22

Century Masters: Philip Pearlstein, The Century Association, New York, NY

Philip Pearlstein, Exhibition of Prints, Oregon State University, Gallery at Fairbanks Hall, Corvallis, OR

An Economy of Specific Bodies and Particular Objects: Philip Pearlstein Drawings, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

2004

Philip Pearlstein, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY

Philip Pearlstein, Galerie Haas, Zurich, Switzerland

Philip Pearlstein, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany

Philip Pearlstein, Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, Telluride, CO

2003

Philip Pearlstein, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany

2002

Philip Pearlstein / Recent Works, The Art Gallery, University of Haifa, Israel

2001

Philip Pearlstein, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY

1999

Complex Relationships, Colaciello Gallery, The Robert & Mary Montgomery Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL

Philip Pearlstein, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland

1998–99

Philip Pearlstein: World War II Paintings, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

1998

Philip Pearlstein, Simon Capstick-Dale Fine Art Ltd., London, United Kingdom

Philip Pearlstein, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France

1997–98

Philip Pearlstein: Nudi in interni, Il Polittico, Associazione d’Arte e Cultura, Rome, Italy

1997

Philip Pearlstein: Recent Work, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY

Philip Pearlstein, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1996 

Philip Pearlstein, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA

Philip Pearlstein: Portraits: 1946 – 1996, Robert Miller Gallery, NY

Philip Pearlstein: Selected Works, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV

1995–96

Philip Pearlstein Retrospective Exhibition: Works on Paper 1959-1994, organized and curated by Michael Berger, Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh, PA

1995

The Graphic Works of Philip Pearlstein, 1978-1994, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO

Philip Pearlstein: New Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY

Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1994

Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, MI

Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI (print exhibition)

1993

Recent Watercolors and Drawings, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY

Three Decades of Prints by Philip Pearlstein, Mayer Gallery, Elvejem Museum of Art, Madison, WI

1992

Philip Pearlstein, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY

The Abstract Landscapes and Other Early Works on Paper, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

1991

Philip Pearlstein, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY

Philip Pearlstein Selected Prints 1972-1989, Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY

Philip Pearlstein, CompassRose Gallery, Chicago, IL

1990

Philip Pearlstein Prints, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL

1989

Philip Pearlstein: Works on Paper, Louis Newman Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA

Philip Pearlstein, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany

Philip Pearlstein: Trials of the Sphinx, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

1988

Philip Pearlstein, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY

1987

Philip Pearlstein: Artist and Educator, Northern Illinois University, Art Gallery in Chicago, Chicago, IL

Philip Pearlstein, Recent Drawings, Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Philip Pearlstein: Visiting Artist, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY

1986

Philip Pearlstein: Personal Selections, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

Philip Pearlstein: Works on Paper, The Palace Theatre of the Arts, Stamford, CT

Philip Pearlstein: Works on Paper, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL

Philip Pearlstein, Amherst College, Amherst, MA

1985

Philip Pearlstein, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY

Philip Pearlstein: Prints and Watercolors: Nudes and Landscapes, Graphics I and II, Boston, MA

1984

Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Landscapes and Ruins, Marsh Gallery, Richmond University, Richmond, VA

1983–84

Watercolors and Prints, The American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy

Philip Pearlstein: Paintings to Watercolors, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA

Philip Pearlstein: A Retrospective, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, (April 15 – June 19); The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, July 14 – September 15; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, December 15 – February 26; Toledo Museum, Toledo, OH, March 18 – April 29

Hebrew Union College, New York, NY

1983

Grandi Nudi, Acquarelli –Stampi, Il Ponte Galleria, Rome, Italy

Philip Pearlstein: Prints and Watercolors (in honor of his retrospective at the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute), Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

1982

Philip Pearlstein, New Paintings, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

Philip Pearlstein: A Painter’s Progress, Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ

Philip Pearlstein: Watercolors, Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, MI

1981

Philip Pearlstein: Landscape Aquatints 1978-1980, Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York, NY

Philip Pearlstein: Paintings and Watercolors (traveling exhibition), John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL

The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA

Philip Pearlstein: Drawings and Watercolors, Reynolds/Minor Gallery, Richmond, VA

Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Memorial Union Art Gallery, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MA

Graphics I and II, Boston, MA

1980

Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, MI

Philip Pearlstein/New Watercolors Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

Associate American Artists, New York

1979

Galerie Jollenbeck, Cologne, Germany

Gimpel Fils, London, United Kingdom

Philip Pearlstein: Prints, Drawings and Paintings, Davidson Art Center, Center for the Arts Galleries, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Reed College Gallery, Portland, OR

1978–79

Harkus Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

The Lithographs and Etchings of Philip Pearlstein, (traveling exhibition), Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO

1978

The Complete Prints of Philip Pearlstein and Philip Pearlstein Drawings, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI

Graphic Art of Philip Pearlstein, Kamp Gallery and Signer Fine Prints, St. Louis, MO

Philip Pearlstein: New Paintings, George Adams Gallery, New York

Philip Pearlstein: Prints from St. Louis Collections, University of Missouri, Saint Louis, MO

1977

Philip Pearlstein, Watercolors and Drawings, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

1976

Barbara Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC

Pearlstein Portraits: 1972-75 and Selected Studio Works, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

Donald Morris Gallery, Detroit, MI

1975

Philip Pearlstein: The Human Figure, Gimpel Fils, London, United Kingdom

Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY

Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Canada

John Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

1974–78

The Pearlstein Show (traveling exhibition), Landfall Press Gallery, Chicago, IL

1974–75

Finch College, New York, NY (traveling exhibition)

1973

Editions La Tortue, Paris, France

1972–73

Philip Pearlstein: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Donald Morris Gallery, Detroit, MI

1972

Philip Pearlstein. Zeichnungen und Aquarelle die Druckgraphik (traveling exhibition), Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany

1971–72

Galerie M.E. Thelen, Cologne, Germany (traveling exhibition)

1971

Graphics I and II Gallery, Boston, MA

1970–71

Philip Pearlstein (traveling exhibition), Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

1970

Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA

Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

1969

Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL

Philip Pearlstein and the Figure, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Philip Pearlstein. New Paintings, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

1968

Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

1967

Laura Knott Gallery, Dorothy Bell Study Center, Bradford Junior College, Bradford, MA

Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

1966

Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL

Ceeje Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

1965

Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL

Ceeje Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

Reed College Gallery, Portland, OR

1964

Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL

1963

Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

1962

Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

1961

Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

1960

Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL

1959

Philip Pearlstein, Paintings and Drawings, Peridot Gallery, New York, NY

Philip Pearlstein, Drawings, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY

1957

Peridot Gallery, New York, NY

1956

Peridot Gallery, New York, NY

1955

Philip Pearlstein, Paintings. Tanager Gallery, New York, NY

2018–19

Imagining Florida: History and Myth in the Sunshine State, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL November 13 – March 24, 2019

2018

30 Years: Frumkin/Adams, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY November 8 – December 22

New Perspectives: Approaches to Realist Painting, Messums Wiltshire, Wiltshire, England, October 27 – December 2

Irving Sandler: Points of View, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, September 26 – December 23

Summer of Love, Freight + Volume, New York, NY, July 20 – September 5

Liquid Dreams, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA July 13 – August 10

Breaking the Mold: Investigating Gender at the Speed Art Museum, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY April 7 – September 9

Looking In: Portraits and Their Stories, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, February 1 – May 31

2017

2017 Alumni Association Invitational, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY, July 24 – August 27

Spring in to Summer with Andy Warhol and Friends!, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, June 10 – September 3

Philip Pearlstein: A Legacy of Influence, Arts Council of Princeton, NJ, January 7 – March 25

2016

Introspective, BravinLee, NY, February 4- March 19

2015–2016

Is/Isn’t: Art on the Verge of Abstraction, George Adams Gallery, NY, November, 24, 2015- January 30, 2016

2015

2015 Annual: The Depth of the Surface, National Academy Museum, New York, June 3- August 23

30Year Retrospective Exhibition, Telluride Gallery of Fine Art

2014

Out of 10th Street and Into the 60s, Curated by Irving Sandler, Loretta Howard Gallery, September 4- October 11

2013

Skin: An Artistic Atlas, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland, March 15 – April 28

2012

Jack Beal, Alfred Leslie,, Philip Pearlstein, The Emergence of New Realism: Paintings and Drawings, 1960-1990, George Adams Gallery, New York, June 12 – August 10

The Annual: 2012, Contemporary since 1826, National Academy Museum, New York, Jan 25 – April 29

2011

Ellen Lanyon & Philip Pearlstein: Objects/Objectivity. Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL, Sept. 22 – Nov. 5

Weatherspoon Art Museum: 70 Years of Collecting, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, February 5 – May 1

Thaw, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY, February 26 – April 2

Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH

2010–2011

An American Century: 20th-Century Master Drawings from the Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, Oct. 9 – January 22010

Facing the Figure: Selected Works from the Collection, 1962-2007, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 9 – Sept. 6

In the Company of Alice, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK, June 22 – July 30

Flesh: Lucian Freud, Paula Rego, Philip Pearlstein, Marilyn Minter & Jenny Saville, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, France, May 2 – 26

The figure: Then and Now, Delaware County Community College, Media, Pa, March 4 – April 2

2009–2010

Tears of Eros, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza y Fundación Caja Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Oct. 20 –January 31

A Figural Presence, Alva deMars Megan Chapel Art Center, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH, Sept. 25 – Nov. 25

Naked! Curated by Adrian Dannatt, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY July 9 – Sept. 19

2008 

Sparks! The William T. Kemper Collecting Initiative, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 3 – July 10

In the Eye of the Beholder, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL

The 183rd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY

New York Cool: Painting and Sculpture from the NYU Art Collection, Grey Art Gallery/New York University, New York, NY

Visions: Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings, travelling exhibition: Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

2007

The 182nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY, May 16 – June 24

2006

An Assessment of contemporary Figuration, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI, June 24 – Aug. 26

2005

Between Perception & Invention: Three Generations of Figurative Artists, Sharon Arts Gallery, Peterborough, NH, July 16 – August 28

Disegno, The One Hundred and Eighth Annual Exhibition, National Academy, New York, NY, May 25 – July 3

State of the Art 2005 National Biennial Watercolor Invitational. Parkland Art Gallery, Champaign, IL, February 21 – April 6; Suburban Fine Arts Center, Hinsdale, IL September 9 – October 4

Western Biennial of Fine Art, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, February 2 – March 27. Curated by Edward Lucie-Smith

2004–05

Picasso to Pop, A Growing Contemporary Collection, The Phoenix Art Museum, AZ, Dec. – Jan.

An American Odyssey 1945/1980 [Debating Modernism] (Traveling Exhibition), Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, April 30 – May. Domus Artium 2002. DA2, Salamanca, Spain June 10 – July 31; Kiosco Alfonso, A Coruna, Spain, September 2 – October 2; Queensborough Community College / CUNY, Bayside, NY, October 24 – January 15

2004

Cento – Le Figure de il Polittico, Il Polittico, Rome, Italy, April 15 – May 15

Per Amore. La raccolta Caggiano, Complesso di Santa Sofia, Salerno, Italy, April 3 – May 30

Il Nudo, fra ideale e realta, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy, January 22 – May 9

Nudo, Galleria Forni, Bologna, Italy, January 17 – March 4

2003

American Art Today: Faces and Figures, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL

Form & Conscience: Figurative Art from Mid-Century to Present, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

2002

Art Downtown: New Painting (exhibition sponsored by Wall Street Rising), 25 Broad Street, New York, NY

The Great American Nude, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT

2001-02

Abstract Expressionism and the ‘New’ American Realism: Paintings by Jack Beal and Philip Pearlstein, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, April 1 – June 17; The Yager Museum, Oneonta, NY, January 17 – April 21

Figuration, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, FL

Three Decades of Contemporary Art: The Dr. John & Rose M. Shuey Collection, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2001

Pennsylvania Painters Post 1950, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA; Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA; Sordoni Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA; James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA; State Museum, Harrisburg, PA

Figuratively Literal: Contemporary Paintings from Metro-Detroit Collections, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Breaking Boundaries, Scarfone-Hartley Galleries, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL

Self-Made Men, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

Breaking Boundaries, Scarfone-Hartley Galleries, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL

Festa di compleanno. Hermann Albert, Carlos Forns Bada, John Kirby, Philip Pearlstein, Il Polittico, Rome, Italy

Invited! Works on Paper, First Street Gallery, New York, NY

Naked Since 1950, C&M Arts, New York, NY

2000–01

The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY

2000

Interiors, The Gallery on the Hudson, Irvington, NY

Portraits and Figures, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA

Dealer’s Choice, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI

1999–2000

The American Century: Art & Culture 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Contemporary American Realist Drawings. The Jalane and Richard Davidson Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Green Woods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition Since 1960, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, September 12 – November 7; Ringling School of Art and Design, Selby Gallery, Sarasota, FL, January 14 – March 19; Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA, April 16 – June

1999

The Contemporary City, D C Moore Gallery, New York, NY

The Figure, M D Modern, Houston, TX

90th Anniversary of Tel Aviv-Yafo: Contemporary Cityscapes Israeli and American Artists, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

American Abstraction/American Realism: The Great Debate, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA

Surviving Modernism: The Narrative Figure: Philip Pearlstein, Ruth Weisberg, Leon Golub, Margaret Lazzari, Gwenda Jay, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL

1998–99

Extensions – Aspects of the Figure, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

1998

Meyerson & Nowinski Gallery, Seattle, WA

Ideal & Reality: the Classical Nude in XXth Century Art, Works on Paper, Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria

Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

New York Perspectives, M B Modern, New York, NY

A Figurative Dialogue: Summer 1998, Andrew F. Sie Contemporary Art, Altamonte Springs, FL

The Forty-Fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907-1998, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1997

Twenty-fifth Anniversary Show, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL

Feminine Image, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY

The Figure Revisited Part 2: Recent Work, The Gallery at Hastings-On-Hudson, Hastings-On- Hudson, NY

1996–97

Abstract Expressionism in the United States, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico

1996

171st Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY, May 29 – September 1; Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, September 9 – October 28; Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, St. Bonaventure University, Orlean, NY, November 2 – December 14

Going Places: Images of Travel and Transport, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, NY

Summer Group Show, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY

Realism After Seven A.M.: Realist Painting After Edward Hopper, The Hopper House, Piermont, NY

100th Anniversary Exhibition, The Century Club, New York, NY

1995–96

Premio Marco 1995, MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico

1995

The City: New York Visions, 1900-1995, ACA Gallery, New York, NY

The Urban Landscape, Gerold Wunderlich & Co., New York, NY, April 4 – May 6; The Murray Collection, Scranton, PA, May 19 – June 30

Annual Professional Painters’ Exhibition, The Century Club, New York, NY

Legacy of Excellence: Faculty of the Brooklyn College Art Department, Images Art Gallery, New York, NY

American Interiors, Knoedler & Co., New York, NY

1994–95

New York Realism Past and Present, Odakyu Museum, Tokyo, Japan, May 18 – June 12; Kagoshima City Museum of Art, Kagoshima, Japan; July 1 – August 7; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, August 12 – September 30; The Museum of Modern Art, Kinetsu, Osaka, Japan, October 7 – 26; Fukushima Prefecture Museum of Art, Fukushima City, Japan, November 1 – December 11; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, January 14 – March 5

Embody, Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

1994

American Realism & Figurative Painting, Cline Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Gerald Wunderlich & Co., New York, NY

Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

The Face of America: Contemporary Portraits in Watercolor, The Arts Guild of Old Forge, Old Forge, NY, August 26 – September 25; McGill University Department of Architecture, Montreal, Canada, October – November; The Medicine Hat Art Gallery and Museum, Alberta, Canada, March – April

Artist Member’s Exhibition, The Century Club, New York, NY

Embody – The Photograph and the Figure, The Proctor Arts Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

The Body, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY

1993

Artists by Artists, Forum Gallery, New York, NY

Contemporary Realist Watercolor, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX

Drawing on the Figure, Carlsten Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI

Still Life 1963-1993, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1992

New American Figure Painting, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Adam & Eve, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan

1991

1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Perspectives on Realism: 1950-1991, Louis Stern Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA

1990

20+ Art for Artist’s Sake: A Salute to Project Rembrandt, The Galleries of the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

1989

Drawings from Life, Research Foundation, City University of New York, New York, NY

The Figure, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK

From the Model, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY

1988 

American Realism: The Glen C. Janss Collection, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID

Lifelike, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York, NY

1987–88

Comic Iconoclasm , Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland; Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom; Circulo des Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain; Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebæk, Denmark

1987

New Works: A Selection of Paintings and Works on Paper, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA

Visions of America – Two Hundred Years of American Genre 1787-1987, ACA Galleries, New York, NY

After Pollock: Three Decades of Diversity, Iannetti Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1986–87 

Viewpoint: Painting and the Third Dimension, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

1986

Drawing and Drawings, Hudson River Museum, Trevor Park on Hudson, Yonkers, NY

The Watercolor Show, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY

Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; Academy of Art, New York, NY; City Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC

1985

Contemporary Watercolor Painting: Influence from the East, College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX

Contemporary Figure Drawing, Concourse Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN

Interior, Exterior, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Figuration Today, Harcus Gallery, Boston, MA

Artist’s Choosing Artists, The Artist’s Choice Museum, New York, NY

Independent Curators Incorporated 10th Anniversary Celebration Exhibition and Silent Auction, The Puck Building, New York, NY

The 21st Weatherspoon Annual Exhibition: Art on Paper 1985, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

American Realism, the Precise Image, Isetan Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1984

Nine Realist Painters Revisited, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY

The Artist’s Choice Museum: The First Eight Years, The Artist’s Choice Museum, New York, NY

1983-84

Eighteen Artists at One West Fourth Street, Hebrew Union College, New York, NY

1983

Painted Light, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA; Queens Museum, Flushing, NY; Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, ME; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

The Figure Observed: Contemporary Life Drawings, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Tanager Gallery 1952-1962, Buecker and Harpsichords, New York, NY

New York, New Work: Contemporary Paintings from New York Galleries, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

The Artist’s Studio in American Paintings, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

Works of the Faculty and Students of the Department of Fine Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

158th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY

Realist Watercolors, Visual Art Gallery, Florida International University, Miami, FL

Perspectives on Contemporary American Realism: Works of Art on Paper from the Collection of Jalane and Richard Davidson, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1982

Contemporary American Realism since 1960, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Big Prints, Arts Council of Great Britain, U.K.

Homo Sapiens: the Many Images, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

An Appreciation of Realism, Museum of Art Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY

1981–82

Real, Really Real, Superreal, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX

1981–82

Amerikanische Malerei, 1930-1980, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Super Realism from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI

The Figure, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY

American Prints: Process and Proofs, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1981

The Image in American Painting and Sculpture 1950-1980, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH

Nudes, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, United Kingdom

New Dimensions in Drawing, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT 45th Annual National Painting Exhibition, Butler Institute, Youngstown, OH

45th Annual National Painting Exhibition, Butler Institute, Youngstown, OH

1980–81

American Drawing in Black and White, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

1980

The Human Form, Contemporary American Figure Drawing and the Academic Tradition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

American Portrait Drawings, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC

Reflections of Realism, Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM

Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

Master Prints from the Landfall Press, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, Chicago, NC

Images in the Landscape: the Last Decade, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

Aspects of the 70’s: Directions in Realism, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA

The Figurative Image, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

Contemporary Naturalism: Works of the ’70’s, Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, Roslyn, NY

Realism/Photo-Realism, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK

American Drawings, Du Bose Gallery, Houston, TX

Three Realists: Jack Beal, Alfred Leslie and Philip Pearlstein, Audrey Strohol Gallery, Memphis, TN

Early and Late, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

American Figure Painting 1960-1980, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA

1979

Six Painters of the Figure, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

The Opposite Sex: A Realistic Viewpoint, University of Missouri, Kansas City, and Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL

Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Figurative/Realist Art: A Benefit Exhibition for the Artist’s Choice Museum, The Artist’s Choice Museum, New York, NY

Late Twentieth Century Art from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation (traveling exhibition), Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1978

Selected 20th Century Nudes, Harold Reed Gallery, New York, NY

The Figure Thirteen Ways, Landmark Gallery, New York, NY

Return of Realism, Part One. Four from the Allan Frumkin Gallery: Jack Beal, Alfred Leslie, Willard Midgette, Philip Pearlstein, Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI

1977

Eight Contemporary Realists, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

New Figurative Painting, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC

Brooklyn College Art Department Past and Present: 1942-1977, Davis and Long Company and Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY

Nothing but Nudes, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

View of a Decade, Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Tenth Street Days: the Co-ops of the 50’s, Gallery Association of New York State, New York, NY

1976

Exhibition of Liturgical Art, Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA

America 1976 (traveling exhibition sponsored by the United States Department of the Interior), Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Portraits USA 1776-1976, Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, University Park, PA

1975–77

Recent American Etching (traveling exhibition), Davidson Art Center, Middletown, CT

1975

Seventy Second American Exhibition, Art Institute, Chicago, IL

Realismus and Realität, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany

Candid Painting, American Genre 1950-1975, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

34th Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Contemporary American Painting, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg, VA

Portrait Painting 1975, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

Watercolors and Drawings – American Realists, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

Figure as Form, American Painting 1930-1975, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL

Drawings: Techniques and Types, William Benton Museum, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Modern Painters/The Self and Others, Wildenstein Gallery, New York, NY

1974

Seven Realists, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Aspects of the Figure, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

ARS 74, Helsinki Museum of Art, Helsinki, Finland

First International Biennial Exhibition of Figurative Painting, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

Seventy-First American Exhibition, Art Institute, Chicago, IL

The Figure in Recent American Painting (traveling exhibition), Westminster College, New Wilmington, PA,

Selections in Contemporary Realism, Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH

Living American Artists and the Figure, Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, University Park, PA

Contemporary Portraits by American Painters, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL

New Portraits, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY American Works on Paper, William Zierler Gallery, New York, NY

Twelve American Painters, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

1973

25 Years of American Painting 1948-1973, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IO

Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

American Sharp Focus Realism, Galerie Lowenadler, Stockholm, Sweden

Drawings by Seven American Realists, Harcus-Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

The Male Nude, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

1972–73

The Realist Revival, Cultural Center and American Federation of Arts, New York, NY

American Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1972

Phases of New Realism, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL

Sharp Focus Realism, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY

Relativierende Realismus, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Painting and SculptureToday 1972, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

1971–72

Return to the Figure, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1971

Alfred Leslie, Philip Pearlstein, Wayne Thiebaud: Contemporary Views of Man, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

32nd Biennial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1970

22 Realists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Third Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, School of Art Galleries, Kent State University, Kent, OH

Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture from New York Galleries, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

Five Years’ Acquisitions of the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Recent Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Summer Show, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

The Survey of Lithography, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

1969–71

Institute of International Education: Artists Abroad (traveling exhibition), Graham Gallery, New York, NY

1969–70

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Critics Choice 1969-70, Syracuse University School of Art, Syracuse, NY

1969

Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture 1969, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL

Nebraska Art Association 73rd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

Directions 2: Aspects of a New Realism, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, MN

Frumkin Summer Show, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

The Dillard Collection: First Four Years, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

Five Figurative Artists, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN

Gallo/Pearlstein/Thiebaud, Van Deusen Gallery, School of Art, Kent State University, Kent, OH

Varieties of Figurative Art, Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

American Report – The Sixties, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

1968

Contemporary American Painting from New York Galleries, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

1967

Acquisitions Exhibition, University of Massachusetts, Art Gallery, Amherst, MA

Realism Now, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY

Painting and Sculpture Today – ’68, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

Festival/Critics Choose Graphic Art, Haags Gemeente-Museum, The Hague, The Netherlands

La nueva veta; la Figura, Centro de Artes Visuales del Instituto Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1967–68

East Coast-West Coast Paintings, Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

The Figure International: 1967-68, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX

The Big Figure, Wilcox Gallery, Swarthmore College, PA

Untitled, 1968, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

1967 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Pittsburgh, PA

1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1967

Painting & Sculpture Today -’67 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

Sources for Tomorrow (50 American Paintings 1946-66 selected from The James A. Michener Foundation Collection, Allentown Art Museum), Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, Columbus, GA; (traveled to: The John Wanamaker Fine Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, New York Visits Philadelphia)

Collectors’ Items 1967, Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH

Contemporary American Art, The Arkansas Arts Center Galleries, Little Rock, AK

30th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL

Group Exhibition, Wilcox Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

Portraits of Artists by Artists, Capricorn Gallery, New York, NY

Focus on Light, New Jersey State Museum, Cultural Center, Trenton, NJ

L.A. – N.Y. Drawings of the 1960’s (traveling exhibition), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Summer Show, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

The Dillard Collection, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

Recent Figurative Art, Bennington College, Bennington, VT

Current Trends, Hartford Art School of the University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

1966–67

A Point of View (Selected Paintings and Drawings from The Richard Brown Baker Collection) The University Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI

1966

Selections from the James A. Michener Foundation Collection, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL

Drawing, The University Art Museum of The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Conditional Commitment…The Artist’s Terms, Brooklyn Center of Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY

Homage to American Art, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

New Acquisitions 1963-1966 The James A. Michener Foundation Collection, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

Review, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

The Media of Art: Now, University of Kentucky Art Gallery, Lexington, KY

Group Show, The Contemporary Gallery (under the auspices of the Jewish Community Center), Kansas City, MO

1965–66

The Figure-International, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY

1965 

The Drawing Society New York Regional Exhibition, Gallery of Modern Art, New York, NY

Contemporaries I, Gallery of Modern Art, New York, NY

One Hundred Contemporary American Drawings, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI

Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign- Urbana, IL

Critics Choice: Art Since World War II (1965 Kane Memorial Exhibition in Honor of the Bicentennial of Brown University), Providence Art Club, Providence, RI

Wilcox Gallery, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, (two man exhibition with Charles Cajori)

A Decade of American Drawings 1955-1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

25th Annual Society for Contemporary American Art Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Eighteen Painters, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY

New York University Art Alumni Exhibition, New York University Art Collection, New York, NY

Art on Paper 1965, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

1964–65

The 1964 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

1964

Summer Show, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

1963-65

Graphics ’63, University of Kentucky Art Gallery, Lexington, KY

1963-64

Nine Realist Painters, Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York, NY

1963

Contemporary Watercolors and Drawings for Purchase Consideration, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI

Review of the Season, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

Review of the Season, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

1962-63

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1962

10th Street – 1952; 10th and Final Year Group Show (“Closing Show”), Tanager Gallery, New York, NY

Second Knoxville Art Center National Exhibition, McClung Museum Art Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

22nd Annual Society for Contemporary American Art Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

The First Five Years, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Recent Figurative Painting, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

Figures, Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY

Summer Exhibition – 15th Annual Creative Arts Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Summer Show, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

1962

Recent Figure Painting, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

1961

Group Show, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY

Review of the Season and Gallery Group, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

The Private Myth, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY

Graphics ’61, University of Kentucky Art Gallery, Lexington, KY

1960

Group Christmas Show, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY

1958–59

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1958

Group Show (October), Tanager Gallery, New York, NY

Recent Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1957

10th Street Show, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY

Nebraska Art Association 67th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

Sixth New York Artists’ Annual (“Stable Annual”), Stable Gallery, New York, NY

Group Show, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY

Christmas Show- Drawings, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY

1956–57

Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1956

Expressionism 1900-1955, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

The Thirteen Members, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY

Nebraska Art Association 66th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, The University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

Group Show – 15 Painters, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY

Fifth New York Artists’ Annual (“Stable Annual”), Stable Gallery, New York, NY

1955–56

1955 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1955

Fourth New York Artists’ Annual (“Stable Annual”), Stable Gallery, New York, NY

The 1955 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

10 Painters, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY

1954–55

Group Christmas Show, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY

1954

Emerging Talent (January), The Kootz Gallery, New York, NY

Paintings by Cohen, Pearlstein, Stein, Whidden, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY

Group Show, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY

1952–53

Murray Zucker, Harold Layner, Philip Pearlstein, Creative Gallery, New York, NY

1952

Group Show, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY