Philip Guston

Room 112

Room 112 https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/5738/

The Porch

The Porch https://www.wikiart.org/en/philip-guston/the-porch-1947

Purchased with assistance from the American Fund for the Tate Gallery 1991

Monument http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/guston-monument-t05870

Gift of the artist

Preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings http://www.moma.org/collection/works/108336

Gift of Edward R. Broida

Curtain http://www.moma.org/collection/works/100265

Gift of Musa Guston

Box and Shadow http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79539

gloved fist in ULQ; falling brick-like forms; abstract skyscrapers at left and right; shoes, seen from bottom, in a pile of debris with pipe and board with nails at bottom center

The Street https://collections.artsmia.org/art/113152/

date inscribed Presented by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery, courtesy of a private collector 1996

Sea Group http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/guston-sea-group-p11416

Gift of the artist

Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings http://www.moma.org/collection/works/125385

If This Be Not I

If This Be Not I https://www.wikiart.org/en/philip-guston/if-this-benoti

Gift of Edward R. Broida

Wheel http://www.moma.org/collection/works/100258

Gift of Edward R. Broida

Last Piece http://www.moma.org/collection/works/100244

Gift of Philip Johnson

Moon http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79854

date inscribed Presented by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery, courtesy of a private collector 1996

Untitled http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/guston-untitled-p11394

Gift of the artist

Preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings http://www.moma.org/collection/works/108334

Gift of the artist

Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings http://www.moma.org/collection/works/125382

Abstraction. Philip Guston began his career as a painter for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the government-supported program that helped support arts and culture during the Depression years. Guston's contributions to public art during these years reflected his knowledge of Renaissance figurative painting and his interest in socially realistic subject matter. Today Guston is renowned for the highly original figurative art he created later in his career. However, he made a surprising and brilliant detour into abstraction during the 1950s. Long attracted to European painting of the 16th - 17th centuries, it was during a visit to Italy in the late 1940s that he immersed himself in the painterly work of the Baroque period. Studying its celebration of color, gesture, and movement, Guston felt that he could finally reconcile his interest in recognizable form with his impulse toward pure expression. Although we don't know for sure if Guston studied the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens, such as the one installed on the opposite wall, he most likely saw the European master's work while traveling in Europe. The similarities of color and structure between the Guston and Rubens paintings on view here are striking, as is their shared emphasis on movement, sensuality, and metamorphosis.

Bronze https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1354/

Gift of Edward R. Broida

Edge of Town http://www.moma.org/collection/works/100250

date inscribed Presented by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery, courtesy of a private collector 1996

Scene http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/guston-scene-p11411

Gift of Edward R. Broida

Deluge II http://www.moma.org/collection/works/100253

Gift of Edward R. Broida

Head http://www.moma.org/collection/works/100274

Gift of Edward R. Broida

Summer http://www.moma.org/collection/works/100260

Gift of Musa Guston

North http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79545

Gift of Edward R. Broida

Fix http://www.moma.org/collection/works/100249

date inscribed Presented by David and Renée McKee through the American Federation of Arts 1984

Rug http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/guston-rug-p11074

Gift of The Museum of Modern Art Department of Publications

In-text plate (folio 66 recto) from In Memory of My Feelings http://www.moma.org/collection/works/11187

date inscribed Presented by David and Renée McKee through the American Federation of Arts 1984

Car http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/guston-car-p11077

Gift of Kleiner, Bell & Co.

Untitled http://www.moma.org/collection/works/75638

Gift of Edward R. Broida

City http://www.moma.org/collection/works/100269

Car

Car https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/112105