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Self-Portrait – 2008

Sel-Portrait, Blue Vest – 2005

Philip Gladstone, born in Philadelphia in 1963, now lives and works in the Maine Highlands.  

Gladstone is an artist best known for his story-telling, evocative—and sometimes provocative—tableaux featuring an ensemble cast of nude men. His Pictures Within Pictures series (created circa 2008-2013) are among his best-known works: carefully rendered, inventive tableaux set in fantastical museums that tell complex, multifaceted tales while referencing and paying homage to iconic works of art, artists and popular culture. Another long-running line of inquiry, his perennially popular Tubs (painted circa 2005-2011), depict bathers in womb-like antique bathtubs and present unlikely juxtapositions of people, objects and animals that suggest poetic stories in a dreamlike, often surreal, and occasionally provocative manner.