Philip Guston (Canadian/American, 1913-1980)
Door, 1981
One-color lithograph 30 ¼ x 37 5/8 in.
View, 1983
One-color lithograph 29 ¾ x 42 in.; 34 x 46 ½ in.
Sky, 1983
One-color lithograph 28 1/2 x 38 5/8 in.
Philip Guston's distinctive paintings and drawings feature cartoonish characters and whimsical anthropomorphized objects, such as light bulbs, shoes, and artist easels, imbued with personal and often political signicance. Many of his works serve as allegorical explorations of societal violence, frequently depicted through ominous hooded gures, cyclopean heads, and detached limbs.
Guston began his career in the 1930s as a muralist with the Federal Art Project and later embraced Abstract Expressionism during the 1950s. By the late 1960s, he shifted back to gurative painting, employing a recognizable palette dominated by pink, red, and black hues, pioneering a form of neo-expressionist painting that would dene the remainder of his career. Guston’s work is in the permanent collections of most major national and international museums.
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