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Philip Guston Biography GEMINI G.E.L. AT JONI MOISANT WEYL Philip Guston Born: Montreal, Canada, 1913 Philip Guston was born in 1913 in Montreal. In 1919 his family moved to Los Angeles, and with an interest in art, he was encouraged by his mother to take a correspondence course in cartooning. He attended the Manual Arts High School, where he became a friend of Jackson Pollock, a fellow student. In 1930 he received a scholarship to the Otis Art Institute. He left after three months. In the winter of 1935–1936, he moved to New York, where he worked on murals for the Works Progress Administration on their Federal Art Project (WPA/FAP). His works from this period tend toward realist social commentary but also suggest his exploration of more abstract approaches to the picture plane. From 1941 to 1945, he taught at the State University of Iowa in Iowa City, the first of many teaching positions he held. The year 1945 marked Guston’s first solo exhibition at The Midtown Galleries and a first prize award at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. In 1947, when he had a summer home in Woodstock, New York, Guston became more attentive to the abstract art that was a hallmark of New York’s art scene. In 1948- 1949, the Prix de Rome took him to Europe, after which he moved to New York, becoming part of a circle of artists, composers, and writers including Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, and John Cage. During the 1950s Guston entered a new phase of abstract expression. Thick strokes in lush hues are woven into complex surfaces, with the brighter colors massed at the center of the canvas; these works became hallmarks of the artist’s style. They were well received, with The Museum of Modern Art purchasing of one of his paintings in 1956. After traveling to Europe in 1960, Guston had major retrospectives at various institutions in New York: the Solomon R. Guggenheim in 1962, the Jewish Museum in 1966, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1973 and at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1980. In 1967, he moved to Woodstock permanently, and began painting in a symbolic style that revived the cartoon like forms and figures that he drew as a young man. This style was not as well received by critics and collectors alike, but over time this style has become known as one of the more introspective styles Guston used to express himself. Guston died of a heart attack in 1980 at his home in Woodstock, NY. Solo Museum Exhibitions: 2003-04 Philip Guston: Retrospective , Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom (catalogue) 2001 Philip Guston: One-Shot-Painting, De Un Solo Aliento , IVAM, Valencia, Spain (catalogue) 1999/1998 Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979 , Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany; Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart; Germany; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (catalogue) 1997 Linea y Poesia: Philip Guston and Musa McKim , La Fundacion Cesar Manrique, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain 1996 Philip Guston: Working Through the 1940’s , The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY 535 WEST 24TH STREET – 3RD FLOOR NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10011-1140 212.249.3324 FAX 212.249.3354 [email protected] WWW.JONIWEYL.COM GEMINI G.E.L. AT JONI MOISANT WEYL 1995 Painting for Themselves: Late de Kooning, Guston, Miro, and Picasso , Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, Bremen, Germany 1994 Philip Guston: Oeuvres Sur Papier 1975-1980 , Musee de L’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne, France (catalogue) 1993 Philip Guston's Poem Pictures , Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; The Drawing Center, New York, NY (catalogue) Philip Guston: 1975-1980 Private and Public Battles , Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA (catalogue) 1992 Philip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo , Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain (catalogue) Philip Guston, Works from the Collection , Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (catalogue) Philip Guston: Paintings in the Collection of the Tate , The Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom 1990 High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture , Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 1989 Philip Guston: Painting Retrospective , Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain; St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Bilderstreit , Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (catalogue) 1988 The Drawings of Philip Guston , The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museum Overholland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; La Fundacion La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford;, UK Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland; Galleria Nazionale D'Arte Moderna & Contemporanea, Rome, Italy (catalogue) 1987 l'epoque, la mode, la morale, la passion , Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Philip Guston: Early & Late Works , Skidmore College Museum of Art, Saratoga Springs, NY (catalogue) 1986 Philip Guston , Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA (catalogue) 1984 Philip Guston: The Late Works , National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Australia; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (catalogue) La Grande Parade: Highlights of Painting after 1940 , Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (catalogue) Philip Guston: Last Works , Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1983 The First Show - Paintings and Sculpture from Eight Collections , Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 1982 Philip Guston: Paintings 1969-1980 , Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland (catalogue) 1981-82 Philip Guston: The Last Works , organized by the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; David McKee Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) XVI Biennial Internacional de Sao Paulo , Sao Paulo, Brazil; Philip Guston: Sus Ultimos Anos , Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico; Mexico Centro de Arte Moderno, Guadalajara, Mexico; Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Columbia (catalogue) 1981 A New Spirit in Painting , Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom Philip Guston , Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL 1980 Philip Guston , Retrospective 1930-1979, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalogue) Philip Guston , curated by John Coplans, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (catalogue) 1979 New Painting - New York , Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom 535 WEST 24TH STREET – 3RD FLOOR NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10011-1140 212.249.3324 FAX 212.249.3354 [email protected] WWW.JONIWEYL.COM GEMINI G.E.L. AT JONI MOISANT WEYL 1978 Philip Guston: New Works in San Francisco , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1975 Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters: A. Gorky, W. de Kooning, J. Pollock, F. Kline, P. Guston , Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1974 Philip Guston, New Painting , School of Fine & Applied Arts Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA (catalogue) 1973 Philip Guston Drawings 1938-1972 , The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 1971 Philip Guston, Recent Work , La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 1970 New Paintings: Philip Guston , School of Fine and Applied Arts Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA 1967 Philip Guston , Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA 1966 Philip Guston: A Selective Retrospective Exhibition 1945-1965 , Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Philip Guston, Recent Paintings and Drawings , The Jewish Museum, New York, NY 1960 XXX Biennial Internazionale d'Arte , Venice, Italy 1959 V Biennial Internacional de Sao Paulo , Sao Paulo, Brazil 1958 The New American Painting , Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Kunsthalle, Basel; Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Milan, Italy; Museo Nacional de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain; Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Berlin, Germany; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium; Musee National d’Arte Moderne, Paris, France; Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom 1956 12 Americans , Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 1947 Philip Guston , Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, NY 1944 Paintings and Drawings by Philip Guston , State University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Solo Gallery Shows: 2007 Guston in Grasmere: the Poem Pictures, 3ºW Gallery, The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, Cumbria, United Kingdom, June 2 – September 2, 2007 Philip Guston, Aurel Scheibler Gallery, Berlin, Germany 2006 Philip Guston: Drawings, McKee Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) Philip Guston: Objects , Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, United Kingdom 2004 Philip Guston, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, United Kingdom (catalogue) 2000 Philip Guston: A New Alphabet , Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Philip Guston: Small Paintings and Drawings 1968-1980 , McKee Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
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