| Henry Pearson | ||
| Birth Date: October 8, 1914 |
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| Death Date: December 3, 2006 Artist Gallery |
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| This big black block in the sky - is it the hole without an end; an image of love and death. The women are looking off past it across an endless ocean. They are clothed in colors of purity – pure yellow, lavender, and white – dressed in gossamer, ethereal as angels, unconcerned as to the outcome of Paris’ decision. It is almost as if this threatening block, this thing so unsteadily placed, commands Paris’ choice, just as the destruction of Troy was predetermined through the abduction of Helen, Aphrodite’s gift to Paris. Paris will again choose love rather than wisdom or worldly power, but here the lure is the irresistible car, or perhaps an irresistible way of life.
Henry Charles Pearson was born in Kinston, North Carolina. He studied in New York with Will Barnet and Reginald Marsh at the Art Students League. As an artist and professor, Henry Pearson was known for his compositions of swirling lines and inked whorls that were influenced by his work on topographical maps in the arm. Pearson worked in New York City and Philadelphia and taught classes at the New School for Social Research and the Pennsylvania Academy.
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