08/06/2026
Painter Philip Guston was born in 1913. Eleven works by the artist are in the Modern’s collection, and one of his abstract drawings is on display now in the first-floor galleries.
Guston’s fifty-year career stands as a unique allegory of change in American art in the latter half of the twentieth century. The artist’s imagery evolved, moving from Symbolic Realism to Abstraction and back as he developed a searching form of autobiographical figuration.
Want to learn more about the artist? Purchase a Guston exhibition catalogue in the Modern Shop in-store or online! “Philip Guston: The Irony of History,” published by the Musée National Picasso-Paris, features 150 figurative works and drawings by the artist. Buy your copy: https://shop.themodern.org/products/philip-guston-the-irony-of-history.
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Artwork: Philip Guston, “Untitled,” 1963. Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Gift of Musa and Tom Mayer © The Estate of Philip Guston. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.