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Henry Charles Pearson

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Henry Charles Pearson (1914 - 2006) was active/lived in New York, North Carolina.  Henry Pearson is known for Optical art, modernist sea-landscape painting, teaching.

An artist and professor, Henry Pearson was known for his "compositions of swirling lines and inked whorls that were influenced by his work on topographical maps in the army. . ." He worked in New York City and Philadelphia and taught classes at the New School for Social Research and the Pennsylvania Academy. 

Pearson was born in Kinston, North Carolina in 1914, and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received his B.A. and later Yale University where he received an M.F.A.  In New York, he studied with Wil Barnet and Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League.

Pearson spent over eleven years in the army during and after WWII. Assigned to interpret topographical maps while on a tour of duty in Japan, his interest in topography and the landscape began, leading him to experiment with optical effects and fine line drawings as an artist.

Works by Pearson can be found in the permanent collections of both the Museum of Modern Art and   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1118 characters.]  Artist bio

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Henry Charles Pearson
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Review of Exhibitions February 2004 Editors, Art in America Yes
20 Book References for Henry Charles Pearson
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
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1981 Whitney Museum Twentieth Century Drawings Selections from the Whitney 136 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 North Carolina Museum of Art Two Hundred Years of Visual Arts in North Carolina
(Exhibition catalog)		 146 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 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
1965 Drawing Society Drawing Society National Exhibiti 1965
(Exhibition catalog)		 108 No
1965 Seitz, William C The Responsive Eye
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 Yes
1965 Whitney Museum A Decade of American Drawings 8th Exhibition Sponsored by Friends
(Exhibition catalog)		 52 No
1962 Gordon, John Geometric Abstraction in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 Yes
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