Ferdinand Burgdorff

Sherman Rose House, Monterey California - Signed 1920's Landscape Etching

1923

"The World" Published by Cummings & Hilliard, No. 1, Cornhill, Boston Early 19th century engraved double hemisphere Atlas Map, titled "The World." Hand colored original outlines. Pu...

"Edge Of The Woods" - 1968 Etching on Paper 1968 etching titled "Edge Of The Woods" by Richard Claude Ziemann (American, b. 1932). The etching depicts a landscape of three trees tog...

Weeping Condo 38.5 x 22 image size: 36" x 19.5" Artists proof printed on 100% cotton rag monochromatic Panoramic Dark. mysterious vintage work by Esteban Chavez

Philip Pearlstein (American, 1924-2022) Stonehenge Landscape Sugar Lift Aquatint Etching with Roulette on Rives BFK Paper, 1979 Series: Ruins and Landscapes Printer: Orlando Condesso Printer: Nancy Brokopp Medium: Sugar-lift aquatint with roulette Philip Pearlstein is an influential American painter best known for Modernist Realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art museums. Philip M. Pearlstein was born on May 24, 1924 in Pittsburgh, PA. He attended Saturday morning classes at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art. In 1942, at the age of 18, two of his paintings won a national competition sponsored by Scholastic Magazine, and were reproduced in color in Life magazine. In 1942, he enrolled at Carnegie Institute of Technology's art school, in Pittsburgh, where he painted two portraits of his parents now held by the Carnegie Museum of Art, but after one year he was drafted by the US Army to serve during World War II. He was initially assigned to the Training Aids Unit at Camp Blanding, Florida, where he produced charts, weapon assembly diagrams and signs. In this role, he learned printmaking and the screenprinting process, and subsequently was stationed in Italy making road signs. While in Italy, he took in as much renaissance art as was accessible in Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan, and also produced numerous drawings depicting life in the Army. In 1946, sponsored by the GI Bill, he returned to Carnegie Institute, and first met Andy Warhol, who was attracted to Pearlstein because of his notoriety in the school, having been featured in Life magazine. During the summer of 1947, the three rented a barn as a summer studio. Immediately after graduating in June 1949 with a BFA, Pearlstein and Warhol moved to New York City, at first sharing an eighth-floor walkup tenement apartment on St. Mark's Place at Avenue A. He was eventually hired by Czech designer Ladislav Sutnar, mainly doing industrial catalog...