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Philip Guston, artist
American, 1913 - 1980
Untitled, 1966
Lithograph
52 x 73 cm (image); 57 x 76.5 cm (sheet)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts purchase 1967.22.15

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Artist Biography: Painter and printmaker. Prominent in Abstract Expressionism. ~~Studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles for three months in 1930 but was mostly self-taught. Painted murals for the Federal Art Project from 1935 to 1940. Taught at the State University of Iowa (1941-45) and other universities. Won first prize at the Carnegie International exhibition in 1945, was awarded Guggenheim fellowships in 1947 and 1968, and won the Rome Prize Fellowship of the American Academy in Rome in 1948. ~~Characteristic style developed early in the 1950s with "White Painting" series. Works of this series ("Dial," 1956; "The Clock," 1957; and "The Tale," 1961) are done in oil in subdued tints delicately brushed in square patches on the center of a white canvas background.