Louis Finkelstein, Philip Pearlstein & Joseph Santore on Cezanne | New York Studio School

Selections from the Archive: Louis Finkelstein, Philip Pearlstein & Joseph Santore "Panel Discussion: What Should we do About the Tradition of Cezanne" recorded on March 26, 1996.
Louis Finkelstein (1923 - 2000) was an American painter, art critic and professor. He taught at the Philadelphia College of Art, New York Studio School, and Yale School of Art (where he served as interim dean of the Art School from 1962 to 1964), and he was the head of the art department at Queens College, CUNY for more than 25 years. In 1979, he received the College Art Association's award for distinguished teaching and in 1999, was awarded an honorary doctorate in the fine arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Finkelstein received several Fulbright grants, an NEA for painting, and he was a member of the National Academy of Design.
His paintings have been shown at Yale University, the New York Studio School, the Riverside Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery and the Pennsylvania Academy.
Philip Martin Pearlstein (1924 - 2022) was an American painter best known for Modernist Realist nudes. He was a preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. Pearlstein received numerous awards including the National Council of Arts Administrators Visual Artist Award; The Benjamin West Clinedinst Memorial Medal, The Artists Fellowship, Inc., New York, NY; and honorary doctorate degrees from Brooklyn College, NY, Center for Creative Studies; the College of Art & Design, Detroit, MI; and the New York Academy of Arts, New York, NY. Pearlstein was a former president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1988 he was elected into the National Academy of Design.He was represented by the Betty Cuningham Gallery.
Joseph Santore (b. 1945) is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award (2010), the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1993-94), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fund Fellowship Grant (1988-89), and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (1985), among others. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at the Lohin-Geduld Gallery, Edward Thorp Gallery, and the Phoenix Art Museum. Public collections include the Cincinnati Museum, Hunter Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Academy of Design, Tucson Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Denver Art Museum, and the Figge Art Museum. Joseph Santore has been a dedicated Professor at Bard College for over 12 years, and has also taught at the School of Visual Arts, Parsons, Yale, and the New York Studio School.
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Louis Finkelstein: what a character!