September 27, 2024 – January 26, 2025
Opening Preview: Thursday, September, 27
Bernard Perlin was a minority, outsider, gay man, and pursuer of truth, beauty, and justice. This exhibit celebrates and brings deserved visibility to an individual who lived passionately and unapologetically against the grain. Born to Russian Jewish immigrants in 1918, artist-activist Perlin was a talented painter, illustrator, war artist-correspondent, and photographer, who tackled stylistic genres, the horrors of WWII, issues of social justice, and homosexuality with conviction and bravery.
Showcasing art from Perlin’s estate, this is an originally curated exhibit by Jewish Museum Milwaukee.
Image: The Bartender, 1958, oil on canvas, Michael Schreiber Collection