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Philip Guston   (American, 1913-1980) 

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Philip Guston Biography
1913   Philip Goldstein, born in Montreal
1919   Family moves to Los Angeles. Enrolls in a correspondence course at The Cleveland School of Cartooning
1927   Attends Manual Arts High School
1930   Scholarship to Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles
1931   First exhibition, at the Stanley Rose Book shop and Gallery, Hollywood, organised by Herman Cherry
1933   Exhibits 'Mother and Child' 1930, his first fully developed painting, at the 14th Annual Exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum
1936   Moves to New York City and joins Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Administration Art Project
1941 - 1945   Artist in Residence, State University of Iowa, Iowa City
1945   First New York Exhibition at Midtown Gallery
1945   Awarded first prize for painting, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
1945   Artist in Residence, Washington University, St. Louis, until 1947
1947   Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship. Returns to Woodstock
1948   Awarded Prix de Rome, American Academy in Rome
1950   Visiting Artist, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1956   Included in the exhibition '12 Americans' at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
1958   Included in the exhibition 'The New American Painting', organised by the Museum of Modern Art and shown throughout Europe in 1958-1959
1959   Awarded Ford Foundation grant
1959   First Retrospective exhibition, V Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil, with David Smith
1960   Major presentation of work in the XXX Biennial, Venice
1967   Moves permanently to Woodstock. Winters in Sarasota, Florida
1968   Second Guggenheim Fellowship
1970 - 1971   Artist in Residence at the American Academy, Rome
1975   Receives Distinguished Teaching of Art Award, The College Art Association
1973 - 1978   Appointed Professor of Art, Boston University, Massachusetts
1980   Awarded Creative Arts Award, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
1980   Dies June 7 in Woodstock, New York
Selected Exhibitions
2009   'Philip Guston 1954-1958,' L&M Arts, New York, NY
2009   'Ventrioloquist,' Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
2008   'Second Thoughts,' The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2008   'For the Spirit - From the UBS Art Collection,' Mori Art Museum, Tokyoo
2007   No Answer is also an answer - Recent Acquisitions 2005-2007, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin
2007   Philip Guston / Jasper Johns, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City, NY
2006   Enigma Variations: Guston and de Chirico, Santa Monica Museum, CA
2006   Plane/Figure, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2006   Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, NY
2006   I not I – Beckett,Guston,Nauman (Samuel Beckett Centennary Exhibition), The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2005   Surrealism USA, National Academy Museum, New York; travels to Phoenix Art Museum, AZ
2005   The Experience of Art, Italian Pavilion, LV Venice Biennale
2004   ‘Philip Guston’ Timothy Taylor Gallery, Jan – March
2003 - 2004   Philip Guston. Retrospective. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, March 30 - June 8, 2003; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 28 - Sept 27, 2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oct 27, 2003 - Jan 4, 2004; Royal Academy of Arts, Jan 24 – April 12, 2004
2000 - 2001   'Painting the Century, 101 Portrait masterpieces 1900-2000', National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2000   'Philip Guston: A New Alphabet', Yale University Art Gallery; travelled to Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
2000   'Philip Guston: Small Paintings and Drawings 1968-1980', McKee Gallery, New York, USA (cat.)
1999 - 2000   'Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979', Kunstmuseum, Bonn; travelled to Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart and to National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, France
1999   'The American Century, Art & Culture 1900-2000, Part II 1950-2000', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1999   'Philip Guston: Works on Paper', Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
1998   'Philip Guston: Works on Paper, 1968-1980', John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1998   'Philip Guston: The Last Works', Lafayette College, Easton, USA (cat.)
1998   'Philip Guston: Selected Works on Paper and Canvas', Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (cat.)
1998   'Linea y Poesia: Philip Guston and Musa McKim', La Fundacion Cesar Manrique, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain
1997   'Philip Guston: Working Through the 1940’s', The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City Iowa, USA. Travelled to the Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina, the Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, USA
1997   'Philip Guston, Brave New World:1943', The Woodstock Artists’ Association, Woodstock, New York, USA, travelled to McKee Gallery, New York, USA
1996   'Philip Guston: Major Paintings from the Seventies', McKee Gallery, New York, USA
1996   'Painting for Themselves: Late de Kooning, Guston, Miro, and Picasso', Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, Bremen, Germany
1995   '46. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte', Venice Biennial 'Identita E Alterita', Palazzo Grassi, curated by Jean Clair
1995   'Philip Guston: Oeuvres Sur Papier 1975-1980', Musee de L’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne, France (cat.)
1995   'Philip Guston', Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA
1995   'Philip Guston: The Fifties' McKee Gallery, New York, USA (cat.)
1994   Benefit for the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts, Allan Stone Gallery NYC
1994   'Philip Guston: Lithographs', Gallery Paul Cava, Philadelphia, USA
1994   'Philip Guston's Poem Pictures', Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA Travels to: The Drawing Center, New York, USA
1994   'Philip Guston: 1975-1980 Private and Public Battles', Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, USA (cat.)
1993   'Philip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo', Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, USA
Literature
2004   ‘Philip Guston’, Timothy Taylor Gallery
2004   Creative Review, April, 2004
2004   Sutcliffe, Thomas ‘Portrait of the artist as a young man’, The Independent, Features, 13 Feb
2004   Lloyd, Jill, ‘The Art of Philip Guston’, The Times Literary Supplement, 6 Feb
2004   Russell Taylor, John, ‘He’s too cool for schools’, The Times, T2, 28 Jan
2004   Kent, Sarah, ‘Back to Basics’, Time Out, Jan 28-Feb 4, no.1745
2004   Lubbock, Tom, ‘Driven from Abstraction’, The Independent Review, 27 Jan
2004   Graham-Dixon, Andrew, ‘the Rage and the Glory’, The Sunday Telegraph Review, Jan 25
2004   Januszczak, Waldeman, The Sunday Times Culture, 25 Jan
2004   Cumming, Laura, The Observer Review, ‘The Road to cartoon Klansmen’, 25 Jan
2004   Packer, William, ‘Contentious hand that lately reveals its worth’, Financial Times, 21 Jan
2004   Searle, Adrian, ‘The devil inside’, The Guardian G2’, 20 Jan
2004   O’Hagan, Sean, ‘An everyday Genius’, The Observer Review, 11 Jan
2004   Roth, Philip, ‘The Odd Couple’, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, 4 Jan

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