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Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein, June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980) was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman.
Philip Guston (pronounced like "rust"), born Phillip Goldstein (June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980), was a painter and printmaker in the New York School, an art movement that included many abstract expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
A searchable listing of known Philip Guston paintings, with physical details, provenance, exhibition history and bibliography. Includes references and links to exhibitions.
Aug 27, 2023 · Philip Guston Now charts the 50-year career of one of America’s most influential modern artists through more than 150 paintings and drawings. Guston’s story is one of epic change—of artistic styles, from muralism to abstract expressionism to figuration, of degrees of political and social involvement, and of levels of personal confession ...
In a career of constant struggle and evolution, Philip Guston emerged first in the 1930s as a social realist painter of murals in the 1930s. Much later he also evolved a unique and highly influential style of cartoon realism. But he made his name as an Abstract Expressionist.
Jul 22, 2020 · Philip Guston is best known for his incisive, cartoonish paintings and drawings ranging in subject matter from everyday scenes to narrative political satires, particularly those of Richard...
Guston was a complex artist who took inspiration from the nightmarish world around him to create new and surprising imagery. This exhibition explores how his paintings bridged the personal and the political, the abstract and the figurative, the humorous and the tragic.
Biography. Philip Guston was born Philip Goldstein in Montreal, Canada, in 1913 to Russian emigrés from Odessa. The family moved to Los Angeles in 1919. In 1925, he took a correspondence course in cartooning. As a high school student in 1927 he made friends with Jackson Pollock.
Philip Guston was an iconic American painter whose works transitioned from Abstract Expressionism into an idiosyncratic lexicon of painterly forms and a cartoonish figures. View Philip Guston’s 941 artworks on artnet.
Jun 3, 2024 · Philip Guston (born June 27, 1913, Montreal, Canada—died June 7, 1980, Woodstock, New York, U.S.) was an American painter, a member of the second generation of Abstract Expressionists. Guston studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles for three months in 1930 but was largely self-taught.
