Charles Pfahl
American painter, 1946–2013
SchoolContemporary Realism
BiographyCharles Pfahl was born in Akron, Ohio in 1946 and began his artistic training early with Jack Richard and Robert Brackman. In 1969, he moved to New York where he continued his studies with the New York Realist painter John Koch. Pfahl is celebrated for his meticulous and often mysterious figural paintings, and he has received numerous awards and grants from the National Academy of Design and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among others. Pfahl taught at the Art Students League of New York and his paintings are included in numerous private and public collections including the Columbus Museum of Art and the Salmagundi Art Club. In 2016, Pfahl was included in the Delaware Art Museum's exhibition, Truth & Vision: 21st century Realism inspired by Robert C. Jackson's 2014 publication, Behind the Easel: The Unique Voices of 20 Contemporary Representational Painters.Person TypeIndividual
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American illustrator, painter, printmaker, and author, born 1940
English painter and printmaker, 1799–1883
American illustrator and cartoonist, 1886–1948
American painter, 1833–1905
American artist, 1889–1968
American painter and lithographer, 1882–1925
American painter, born 1947
