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Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein, June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980) was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. "Guston worked in a number of artistic modes, from Renaissance-inspired figuration to formally accomplished abstraction," [1] and is now regarded as one of the "most important, powerful, and influential American painters of the last 100 years."
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 Nixon ...
- Claire Selvin
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. In the late 1960s Guston helped to lead a transition from abstract expressionism to neo ...
- American
- June 27, 1913
- Montreal, Canada
- June 7, 1980
Philip Guston was born Philip Goldstein, in Montreal, Canada, in 1913. He was the youngest of seven children born to a Jewish couple who had come to America after fleeing the pogroms in Russia. America seemed to offer shelter from persecution, yet the family found life difficult in their new country. Guston's father had been a saloon keeper ...
- American
- June 27, 1913
- Montreal, Canada
- June 7, 1980
The Guston Foundation presents the life and work of the 20th-century American painter Philip Guston, whose art spanned the half century between 1930 to 1980. Catalogue Raisonné A searchable listing of known Philip Guston paintings, the Catalogue Raisonné is a project of Guston CR LLC, a wholly owned, nonprofit subsidiary of The Guston Foundation.
Philip Guston (born Phillip Goldstein, June 27, 1913 – June 7, 1980) was a Canadian American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman. "Guston worked in a number of artistic modes, from Renaissance-inspired figuration to formally accomplished abstraction," and is now regarded as one of the "most important, powerful, and influential American painters of the last 100 years."
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Jul 19, 2023 · Philip Guston Now. Through Aug. 27, the National Gallery of Art; Sixth and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.; nga.gov. Aruna D'Souza writes about modern and contemporary art and is the ...
