Philip Pearlstein was one of the greatest artists of the postwar revival of realist painting. The artist was born in Pittsburgh, PA, and received his BFA from Carnegie Tech, where he studied with Robert Lepper, Balcomb Green, Samuel Rosenberg and Andy Warhol. In 1952, he had his first public showing in a group exhibition at the Tanager Gallery; in 1954, Clement Greenberg selected his work for a show at the Kootz Gallery, New York, titled "Emerging Talent"; and in 1955, he had his first one-man exhibition at the Tanager Gallery. In the same year, he received his Master’s degree with his thesis, The Paintings of Francis Picabia 1908-1930. Pearlstein has had exhibitions at the Milwaukee Art Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, NY, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, The Toledo Museum and the Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio, among many others. Pearlstein’s honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1968; a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship in 1969; and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1982.