Philip Guston

How Abstract Clumps Became Philip Roth and Dick Nixon

Estate of Philip Guston

Once, the American painter Philip Guston (1913-1980) was a polarizing artist. It’s the stuff of legend: An esteemed second-generation Abstract Expressionist, renowned for exquisitely honed arrangements of fleshy brushstrokes, turns to a brutish figurative art—a nightmarish realm of Klansmen, endless hangovers and hellish rooms lit by bare light bulbs.  read more »

Guston, Vindicated Underdog, A Man Who Changed His Mind

The retrospective of paintings and drawings by the American artist Philip Guston (1913-1980), curren  read more »

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The Life and Times Of Richard Nixon Last winter, I kvetched when Frank Stout lampooned Richard Nixon  read more »