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
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
