THE COLLECTION
Untitled (Waiting)
Philip Guston (American, born Canada. 1913-1980)
(1972). Oil on paper, 30 1/4 x 40" (76.8 x 101.6 cm). Gift of Musa and Tom Mayer. © 2010 The Estate of Philip Guston
2583.2001
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
November 21, 2007–July 28, 2008
This smoking Klansman doubles as a self–portrait. In the late phase of a long career, Guston explored a satiric vision of himself and the world. In the 1930s and 1940s he had been a politically engaged painter, influenced by Mexican Muralism. His work then evolved into an Abstract Expressionist style. It was only in the last decade of his life that he turned back to figuration, with a comic and ironic sensibility.
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