Philip Pearlstein(1924-2022)

His paintings are in the collections of major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

It would be easier to work from photographs, obviously, but there's an energy, an urgency working from life that doesn't come from a photograph. You're capturing something elusive, something you're not always sure of, or you're trying to capture it, before it vanishes. [on his preference for working with live models]