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"tombstone": "Female Model on African Stool, 1976. Philip Pearlstein (American, 1924\u20132022). Oil on canvas; framed: 185 x 155 x 4 cm (72 13/16 x 61 x 1 9/16 in.); unframed: 182.8 x 152.4 cm (71 15/16 x 60 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund, 1978.16. \u00a9 Philip Pearlstein / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"inscription": "signed lower left: Pearlstein 76.\r\nOn stretcher on reverse: \u00a976",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1978",
"description": "Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979).",
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"title": "The Lessons of the Academy",
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"description": "By cutting off the upper part of the model\u2019s face, Philip Pearlstein breaks in a special way with the tradition of nude painting and portraiture. By not giving the viewer a counterpart who responds in one way or another to his or her gaze, Pearlstein focuses completely on the naked human body. By contemplating on his model\u2019s body as a phenomenon devoid of any identity other than the attributes of sex and skin color, Pearlstein transforms it into a secluded world of forms, comparable to a natural landscape. The depiction comes across as objective and sober\u2014there is no intimate tension or sexual charge.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1978.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 1 (January 1979): 3\u201348.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 27; Mentioned: p. 46, no. 125",
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cNew Paintings by Four Artists from Britain.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 69, no. 10 (December 1982): 311\u2013323.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 322-323, fig. 20",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159795"
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"citation": "Franklin, David. The Cleveland Museum of Art. London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd., 2012.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 74 - 75",
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"citation": "Hinson, Tom E. \u201cAlex Katz\u2019s Impala.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 8 (October 1986): 314\u2013326.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 320, fig. 20",
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