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BERNARD PERLIN WWII Airmen Seated with Woman Counting Money.
Gouache, watercolor and pen and ink on thin cream wove paper, 1945. 370x470 mm; 14 3/4x18 3/4 inches. Signed and dated in ink, lower right.
According to Nancy Shepp, Perlin was born in Richmond, Virginia, and came to New York at the age of 18 in 1936. He studied at the New York School of Design and the Art Students League, and then went to Poland on a Koscuiszko Foundation award. His drawings of the B-29 bases in the Pacific as well as his impressions of Shanghai in post-war 1946 were published in Fortune and Life magazines. He had a highly successful exhibit at Knoedler Gallery in 1948, followed by one-man shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Tate Gallery, London.
