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| Philip Pearlstein Uprooted Tree 1956 ink and wash on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Philip Pearlstein Landscape ca. 1960-65 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Philip Pearlstein Untitled ca. 1962 ink on paper Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| Philip Pearlstein Male and Female Nudes with Red and Purple Drape 1968 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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| Philip Pearlstein Female Model on Oriental Rug with Mirror 1968 oil on linen Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Philip Pearlstein Untitled 1970 lithograph Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Philip Pearlstein Untitled 1970 lithograph Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Philip Pearlstein Untitled 1970 lithograph Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Philip Pearlstein Untitled 1970 lithograph Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Philip Pearlstein Portrait of Anne Arnold and Ernest Briggs 1971 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Philip Pearlstein Study for Two Reclining Female Models 1972 ink and wash on paper Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| Philip Pearlstein Portrait of Henry Kissinger 1979 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Philip Pearlstein Portrait of Mark Strand 1983 watercolor on paper National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Philip Pearlstein Portrait of Beth Levine 1985 oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Jack Mitchell Philip Pearlstein 1986 gelatin silver print National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Philip Pearlstein Self Portrait 1996 collage of printed paper and crayon on canvas National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC |
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| Philip Pearlstein Two Female Models sitting with Legs Crossed and Kazak Rug 2013 oil on canvas Portland Museum of Art, Maine |
from The First Satyr of Aulus Persius Flaccus,
in Dialogue betwixt the Poet and His Friend, or Monitor
Friend: Your Satyrs, let me tell you, are too fierce;
The Great will never bear so blunt a Verse.
Their Doors are bar'd against a bitter flout:
Snarl, if you please, but you shall snarl without.
Expect such Pay as railing Rhymes deserve,
Y'are in a very hopeful way to starve.
Persius: Rather than so, uncensur'd let them be:
All, all is admirably well for me.
My harmless Rhyme shall scape the dire disgrace
Of Common-shores, and ev'ry pissing place.
Two painted Serpents shall, on high, appear;*
'Tis Holy Ground, you must not Urine here.'
This shall be writ to fright the Fry away,
Who draw their little Bawbles, when they play.
Yet old Lucilius never fear'd the times;
But lash'd the City, and dissected Crimes.
Mutius and Lupus both by Name he brought;
He mouth'd em, and betwixt his Grinders caught.
Unlike in method, with conceal'd design,
Did crafty Horace his low numbers joyn;
And with a sly, insinuating Grace,
Laugh'd at his Friend, and look'd him in the Face.
Would raise a Blush, where secret Vice be found;
And tickle, while he gently prob'd the Wound.
With seeming Innocence the Crowd beguil'd;
But made the desperate Passes** when he smil'd.
– Persius (AD 34-62), translated by John Dryden (1693)
*on places to be protected from defilement snakes were painted in warning
**lunges, thrusts (a fencing term)