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Press

Aileen Jacobson, The New York Times, December 11, 2015

"..The painting, a little over eight feet long and six feet tall, is the centerpiece of the show..."

Martha Steger, Arrive Magazine, December 2011

 "The Don Perlis: Narrative Reborn Exhibition… celebrates the career of Perlis…"

Victoria Donohoe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 28, 2011

 "…Don Perlis: Narrative Reborn is a truly amazing exhibition…"

Raymond J. Steiner, ART TIMES, August 2011

”...Don Perlis and his humanist aesthetic vision will prevail…”

Donald Kuspit, “New Old Masters,” National Museum in Gdansk, 1999

"Don Perlis opera pictures are grand performances…"

Donald Kuspit – Catalogue Essay, 2007

“Perlis is a major magical realist…”

Stephen A Kurtz, ARTnews, March 1970

“Can You Still become an
old master a the age of 28”
” The younger revisionist figurative painters did not go through an abstractionist phase”

Geritt Henry, Art In America, 2000

” A new metaphor for the act of painting”

Ruth Bass Arts Magazine, 1980

“A statement that is both extremely personal and contemporary as well”

Lawrence Campbell, Art In America,

April 1996

“One of the most beautiful evocations of a New York subject that I have seen in years”

Marianne Hancock, Arts Magazine,

1971

” Qualities that can be conveyed in paint only by masters”

Gerrard Haggerty, COVER Magazine, May 1993

“Don Perlis understands that history is myth writ large”
“A cozy priveledged shut in area”

John Gruen, New York Magazine, October 1971

“Paints the female nude as though she were the newest of revelations…”

Hilton Kramer, The New York Times,

September 12, 1980

” A talent engaged in large tasks”

Jed Perl, Columbia Spectator, October 7, 1971

“Don Perlis is one of the most important figurative painters at work…”
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