Mary Ryan Gallery

Philip Guston

(American, 1913–1980)

Philip Guston

Studio Corner, 1980

Price on Request

Biography

Timeline

1913: Born in Montreal, Canada
1930: Attended classes at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, CA; disappointed in the traditional art curriculum, left after only three months
1936: Joined Federal Administration Art Project, Works Progress Administration
1941 - 1945: Served as artist-in-residence, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Recipient, First Prize in Painting, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
1945 - 1947: Served as artist-in-residence, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1947: Recipient, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1948: Recipient, Prix de Rome from American Academy in Rome, Italy
1950: Visiting Artist, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
1959: Recipient, Ford Foundation Grant
1968: Recipient, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1970 - 1971: Served as artist-in-residence at the American Academy, Rome, Italy
1973 - 1978: Appointed as a professor of art, Boston University, Boston, MA
1975: Recipient, Distinguished Teaching of Art Award from the College Art Association
1980: Recipient, Creative Arts Award, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
: Died in Woodstock, NY

Exhibitions

2012: Philip Guston: Late Paintaings, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo)
Collecting Biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, USA
Philip Guston, Roma, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy (solo)
2009: Philip Guston 1954-1958, L&M Arts, New York, USA (solo)
Ventrioloquist, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
2008: Second Thoughts, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
For the Spirit: From the UBS Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2007: No Answer is also an answer, Recent Acquisitions 2005-2007, Dublin City Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Philip Guston/Jasper Johns, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
2006: The New Landscape/The New Still Life, Soutine and Modern Art, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
Enigma Variations: Guston and de Chirico, Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, USA
Philip Guston: Drawings, McKee Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Philip Guston, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
2005: Surrealism USA, National Academy Museum, New York, USA; traveled to Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA
BIG BANG, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
2004: Philip Guston, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Philip Guston, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England (solo)
Philip Guston: Retrospective, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, USA (solo)
Small Work/Large Scale, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, USA
2003: Philip Guston, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (solo)
Philip Guston Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA (solo)
2002: Philip Guston: Poor Richard, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, USA (solo)
Philip Guston, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (solo)
2000 - 2001: Painting the Century, 101 Portrait masterpieces 1900-2000, National Portrait Gallery, London, England
2000: Philip Guston: A New Alphabet, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA (solo)
Philip Guston: Small Paintings and Drawings 1968-1980, McKee Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1999: The American Century, Art & Culture 1900-2000, Part II 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Philip Guston: Works on Paper, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
1998: Philip Guston, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
Dubuffet to de Kooning: Expressionist Prints from Europe and America, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1957: The "9th St." Show, Stable Gallery, New York, USA
1956: The "9th St." Show, Stable Gallery, New York, USA
12 Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1953: The "9th St." Show, Stable Gallery, New York, USA
1952: Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1951: Whitney Museum of American Art, Annuals and Biennials, New York, USA
The "9th St." Show, Stable Gallery, New York, USA
1942 - 1948: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Public Collections

: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Berardo Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía(MNCARS), Madrid, Spain
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Tate Britain, London, U.K
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, MI
Museum of Fine Arts-Boston, Boston, MA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA

Literature

2007: Schreier, Christoph. Philip Guston Works on Paper. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2007
2006: Auping, Michael. Philip Guston: Retrospective. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2006
2003: Feld, Ross. Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston. Berkley: Counterpoint, 2003
2001: Kunstmuseum Bonn. Philip Guston: Paintings/Tableaux 1947-1979. Bonn: Stadt Bonn, 2001
1991: Storr, Robert. Philip Guston (Modern Masters Series, Vol. 11). New York: Abbeville Press, 1991