Two Nudes on Old Indian Rug
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etching and aquatint in black on Arches Cover wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 74.9 × 92.4 cm (29 1/2 × 36 3/8 in.) sheet: 60 × 75.1 cm (23 5/8 × 29 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation
Accession Number
2008.115.244
About the Artist
Philip Pearlstein
Philip Pearlstein (1924–2022) was an American painter whose unsparing, rigorously observed figurative paintings placed him at the forefront of a return to realism in American art during the 1960s and after. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pearlstein studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology before moving to New York, where he completed a graduate degree at New York University's Institute o...