This major survey traces Guston's career from his beginnings as a Symbolic Realist in the 1930s, through his career as an Abstract Expressionist in the 1950s and 1960s, to his later figurative works.
This survey of the work of Philip Guston (1913–1980) comprises more than 75 paintings and drawings documenting each stage of the artist’s development, from his precocious beginnings as a Social Realist in the 1930s, through his renown as a lyrical Abstract Expressionist in the 1950s and early 1960s, to his later figurative works, which had a great impact on American and European art of the 1970s and 1980s.
Accompanied by a publication produced by Thames & Hudson.
The exhibition was organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas.
November 2, 2003
Lecture
Sunday at the Met: Philip Guston. Notes from the Lost and Found
Harry Cooper, curator of modern art, Fogg Art Museum.
Free with Museum admission.
3:00 p.m., Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Film
Conversations with Philip Guston, directed by Michael Blackwood, 2003 (46 min.)
Free with Museum admission.
4:15 p.m., Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
November 6, 2003
Gallery Talk
Philip Guston
Tova Friedman.
Free with Museum admission.
11:00 a.m., Gallery Talk Stanchion, Great Hall
November 16, 2003
Lecture
Sunday at the Met: Philip Guston
Panel Discussion on the Life and Work of Philip Guston
In connection with the retrospective of the art of Philip Guston (1913–1980) currently on view, participants who knew Guston well discuss various aspects of his life and career.
Carroll Dunham
Ellen Gallagher, artist, New York
Michael Auping, chief curator, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Nan Rosenthal, senior consultant, Modern Art
Roberta Smith, art critic, The New York Times.
Free with Museum admission.
3:00 p.m., Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Image: Philip Guston, The Studio, 1969, Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Special Exhibition Galleries, The Tisch Galleries, 2nd floor