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