Henry C. Pearson (October 8, 1914 – December 3, 2006) was an American abstract and modernist painter.
He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in the Second World War, designing maps for the Okinawa campaign, and then re-enlisted to serve in the US occupation of Japan, where he was influenced by Japanese art and theatre forms.
In general, his mode was hard-edged abstraction, although not without traces of humor and whimsy.
He taught at The New School for General Studies and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for many years.
Pearson was also greatly interested in literature and illustrated several poems by the Irish Nobel Prize–winning poet Seamus Heaney.