11 Pop Artists
1966 · Three volumes of thirty-one screenprints (two with collage additions), and two lithographs
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Museum of Modern Art
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Peter Phillips
1939
TextileContemporaryPop ArtFiguration
Representation
None documented
2
Institutional Exhibitions
7
Works in Collection
14
Assets Indexed
2
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Publications Referenced
90%
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Movements
- • Contemporary
- • Pop Art
- • Figuration
- • Op Art
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Pop Art Prints, Drawings, and Multiples
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1970
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London/New York/Hollywood: A New Look in Prints
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1966
About
Why this artist matters now
Peter Phillips is a British painter whose densely layered compositions merge commercial imagery, mechanical forms, and gestural abstraction into compositions that resist easy legibility. Working in acrylic and oil on canvas since the 1960s, he treats popular culture and industrial materials as formal subjects rather than ironic commentary. His practice bridges figuration and abstraction, emerging from postwar Pop art while maintaining a distinctive visual syntax that has sustained itself across five decades.
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Contemporary
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Textile
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Wauters Workshop
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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