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Philip Guston, artist
American, 1913 - 1980
Two Heads-Water, 1976
Black ink on wove paper
45.5 x 60.8 cm (sheet)
Purchase, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Bransten, Polly Carver Duxbury, the Graphic Arts Council, Patricia Dinner Heldfond, Mr. and Mrs. F. Warren Hellman, Mr. and Mrs. John Lowell Jones, Mrs. Peggy Jones, Mr. and Mrs. C. Richard Kramlich, Dr. and Mrs. William Margaretten, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander R. Mehran, Mr. and Mrs. John S. Osterweis, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sonz, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Walter, Mrs. Paul L. Wattis, Mr. and Mrs. William W. Wilson III, Dr. and Mrs. William J. Wolfenden, Jr. 1988.2.41

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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.

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