Two Nudes with Flowered Rug
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View on museum website →Medium
brown sepia ink on rough wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 74.93 × 104.14 cm (29 1/2 × 41 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Philip and Judith Benedict
Accession Number
2017.178.1
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...