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Bernard Perlin

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Bernard Perlin (1918 - 2014) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut.  Bernard Perlin is known for Modernist figure-genre and still life painting, poster art.

Bernard Perlin showed that he was an artist from an early age, but his creative maturation was a process that played out over the many decades of his career.  Critics were sometimes confused, but in retrospect one can easily see the threads that tie together Perlin's works from the 1940's to the 1970's: painstaking technique and glowing color.

Perlin's appearance as a professional artist coincided with the United States' entry into the Second World War.  Perlin was engaged by the Office of War Information to create posters to motivate the populace in favor of the war effort. His vigorous images propagandized for patriotism with dynamic arrangements of massive forms and figures. By 1944 Perlin was sent overseas to witness the action firsthand.  Perlin's World War II reportage, for Life and Fortune magazines, transcended the simple function of conveying news of the war.  His artistic lens took the terrible facts before him and coalesced them into   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 13827 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  39
Magazine References:  3

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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Bernard Perlin
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Fine Art Connoisseur Bernard Perlin December 2012 Rosenberg, Alan Yes
American Art Review Magic Realism: An American Response August 1999 Tomor, Michael A Yes
American Art Review Thoughts on Collecting December 1995 Schiller, Philip J Yes
39 Book References for Bernard Perlin
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1993 Thistlewood, David (editor) American Abstract Expressionism
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Ward, John L American Realist Painting 1945-1980 431 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Mecklenburg, Virginia Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1986 Chetham, Charles; David Grose A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art 312 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Weber, Bruce The Fine Line Drawing with Silver in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 103 No
1982 Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960
(Exhibition catalog)		 195 Yes
1979 Crawford, Anthony R Posters/World War l & World War ll George C Marshall Research Foundation 128 No
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Gidley, Mick Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections 58 No
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 Mendelowitz, Daniel M A History of American Art 662 No
1971 Graham, F Lanier Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor 111 Yes
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1970 Townsend, Wolfe Six Americans 16 No
1964 Baur, John I H Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 91 Yes
1962 Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness Art U S A Now (2 volumes) 474 Yes
1961 Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur American Art of Our Century 309 Yes
1961 Rodman, Selden Conversations with Artists 35 Painters, Sculptors and Architects 234 No
1959 Marshall, Francis Magazine Illustration 96 No
1958 Goodrich, Lloyd Fulbright Painters: Exhibits Organized by the Smithsonian Institution in Cooperation with the Institute of International Education
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1957 Brooklyn Museum Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1957 Eliot, Alexander Three Hundred Years of American Painting 318 Yes
1956 Kuh, Katherine American Artists Paint the City (38th Biennale/Venice 1956)
(Exhibition catalog)		 47 Yes
1956 Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed) American Painting Today 127 Yes
1955 Baur, John I H/Rosalind Irvine The New Decade 35 American Painters and Sculptors
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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