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Best known for his large-scale, realist nudes, Philip Pearlstein (b. 1924)  created this double portrait  of feminist, curator, critic and art historian Linda Nochlin and her second husband,   Richard Pommer in 1968 in honor of the couple’s wedding. Here, Pearlstein challenges the conventional image of marriage by placing Nochlin in the foreground, rather than next to her husband, whose groundbreaking scholarship reshaped the discipline. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Portrait of Linda Nochlin and Richard Pommer By Philip Pearlstein →