On view through Sunday, September 13, 2020, at the National Gallery of Art/Washington, “Philip Guston Now” is an exhibit of this artist’s 50-year career. Noted as one of America’s greatest modern painters, Philip Guston (1913-1980) “…paintings have inspired generations of artists while also defying easy definition,” said Director of the National Gallery of Art Kaywin Feldman. “This exhibition will provide an in-depth look at the career that led to his iconic late paintings and will surely secure Guston’s place in the pantheon of modern art, while reassessing his impact on the art of the present.”
The show is curated by Harry Cooper, Senior Curator and Head, Department of Modern Art of the National Gallery of Art; Alison de Lima Greene, Isabel Brown Wilson Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Mark Godfrey, Senior Curator, International Art, Tate Modern, London; and Kate Nesin, Adjunct Curator, Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
A selection of approximately 125 paintings and 70 drawings from some 40 public and private collections are featured as well as others that have rarely been seen.
Highlights include paintings from the 1930s that have never been on public view; the largest reunion of paintings from his groundbreaking Marlborough Gallery show in 1970; a thorough representation of satirical drawings of Richard Nixon and his associates; a dazzling array of small panel paintings made in 1968–1972 as Guston was developing his new vocabulary of hoods, books, bricks, and shoes; and a powerful selection of large, often apocalyptic paintings of the later 1970s that form the artist’s last major artistic statement.
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From the NGA, the exhibit goes on view at: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 18, 2020 to January 18, 2021; Tate Modern, London, February 17 to June 13, 2021; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, July 17 to October 17, 2021.