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Home>Exhibitions>Past>2023>Philip Guston Now

# Philip Guston Now

Past Exhibition

## March 2 – August 27, 2023East Building, Concourse

*Philip Guston Now* charts the 50-year career of one of America’s most influential modern artists through more than 150 paintings and drawings. Guston’s story is one of epic change—of artistic styles, from muralism to abstract expressionism to figuration, of degrees of political and social involvement, and of levels of personal confession in his work. Renowned in his time and in ours, Guston’s work continues to resonate, attract, and provoke, raising crucial questions about the relationship of art to beauty and brutality, freedom and doubt, politics and the imagination.

## Explore Selected Works

*Female Nude with *Easel, 1935*, *oil on canvas*, *Private Collection. © The Estate of Philip Guston

*Martial Memory*, 1941*, *oil on canvas*, *Saint Louis Art Museum, Eliza McMillan Trust. © The Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy Hauser & Wirth

*Self-Portrait,* 1944*,*oil on canvas*,*Private Collection. © The Estate of Philip Guston**

*Review,*1948–1949*,*oil on canvas*,*National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Musa Guston, 1992**

*Passage*, 1957–1958*,*oil on canvas*,*The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Bequest of Caroline Wiess Law, 2004.20. © The Estate of Philip Guston**

*The Return*,**1956–1958*,*oil on canvas*,*Tate: Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery, 1959. © The Estate of Philip Guston; digital image © Tate, London/Art Resource, NY**

*Untitled*,**1964*,*oil on canvas*,*National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Musa Guston, 1992**

*Untitled*, 1967*,*brush and ink*,*Private Collection.  © The Estate of Philip Guston**

*Untitled*, 1968*,*charcoal, Private Collection. © The Estate of Philip Guston

*Untitled,*1968*,*acrylic on panel*,*Private Collection. © The Estate of Philip Guston**

*Untitled,*1968, oil on panel*,*Private Collection. © The Estate of Philip Guston**

*Untitled (Picture)*, 1968*,*oil on panel*,*Private Collection. © The Estate of Philip Guston

*Courtroom*,* *1970*, *oil on canvas*, *Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection.  © The Estate of Philip Guston

*Poor Richard (no. 37)*, 1971*,*ink *,*The Guston Foundation, Promised gift to the National Gallery of Art, Washington.  © The Estate of Philip Guston

*Painter’s Table*, 1973*,*oil on canvas*,*National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift (Partial and Promised) of Ambassador and Mrs. Donald Blinken in memory of Maurice H. Blinken and in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991. © The Estate of Philip Guston**

*Painting, Smoking, Eating*, 1973*,*oil on canvas*,*Collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. © The Estate of Philip Guston**

*Untitled (Self-Portrait)*,**1974*,*ink, Private Collection.  © The Estate of Philip Guston**

*Rug,*1976*,*oil on canvas*,*National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Edward R. Broida, 2005. © The Estate of Philip Guston**

*The Line,*1978*,*oil on canvas*,*Private Collection. © The Estate of Philip Guston

*The Ladder*, 1978*,*oil on canvas*,*National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Edward R. Broida, 2005. © The Estate of Philip Guston**

*Black Sea*,**1977*,*oil on canvas*,*Tate: Purchased 1982.  © The Estate of Philip Guston

*Legend*,**1977*,*oil on canvas, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund, 88.35. © The Estate of Philip Guston**

*Talking*, 1979, oil on canvas, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Edward R. Broida, 2005. © The Estate of Philip Guston; digital image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY**

*Untitled*, 1980, acrylic and ink on illustration board*,*Private Collection.  © The Estate of Philip Guston

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## In-Person Events

March 25 – August 18
Philip Guston Now
This conversational exhibition tour explores Philip Guston’s 50-year career and the historical events that influenced his work. 

Philip Guston Now
In this publication, leading art historians follow the unconventional path of Guston’s life and work, while ten of today’s most daring artists describe how Guston remains a provocative inspiration.
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**Organization**                        The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Tate Modern, London; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

**Other venues** Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 1–September 11, 2022Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 23, 2022–January 15, 2023Tate Modern, October 5, 2023–February 25, 2024

**Sponsors** Major support for the international tour of the exhibition is provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. 

The Director’s Circle of the National Gallery of Art and the Edwin L. Cox Exhibition Fund provided additional funding.

The exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

**Passes** Admission is always free and passes are not required

**Banner detail**: Philip Guston, *Painting, Smoking, Eating*, 1973, oil on canvas, Collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. © The Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy Hauser & Wirth.

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