Philip Guston

How Abstract Clumps Became Philip Roth and Dick Nixon

How Abstract Clumps Became Philip Roth and Dick Nixon
Estate of Philip Guston

Once, the American painter Philip Guston (1913-1980) was a polarizing artist. It’s the stuff of legend: An esteemed second-generation Abstract Expressionist, renowned for exquisitely honed arrangements of fleshy brushstrokes, turns to a brutish figurative art—a nightmarish realm of Klansmen, endless hangovers and hellish rooms lit by bare light bulbs.  read more »

Guston, Vindicated Underdog, A Man Who Changed His Mind

The retrospective of paintings and drawings by the American artist Philip Guston (1913-1980), curren  read more »

Currently Hanging

Guston, Vindicated Underdog,A Man Who Changed His Mind  read more »

Currently Hanging

The Life and Times Of Richard Nixon Last winter, I kvetched when Frank Stout lampooned Richard Nixon  read more »