Guston

What most collectors wanted were Guston's graceful abstract paintings from the 1950's, not the lumpish, ragged late works that had caused New York critic Hilton Kramer to call Guston "A Mandarin Pretending to be a Stumblebum."

John Seed: Mazurki: The Multiple Meanings of a Philip Guston Drawing John Seed 2011

What most collectors wanted were Guston's graceful abstract paintings from the 1950's, not the lumpish, ragged late works that had caused New York critic Hilton Kramer to call Guston "A Mandarin Pretending to be a Stumblebum."

John Seed: Mazurki: The Multiple Meanings of a Philip Guston Drawing John Seed 2011

In his recent paintings, there are cartoonlike blobs of flesh that recall Guston, Gauguinesque landscapes filled with garish color, and even references to Bellini and Vermeer.

artforum.com 2010

As Guston, an artist he admires, "had the shoe, head, and the foot," Alsoudani has a range of imagery he employs and often refers to as his tools.

Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta: Stretching Time - In the Studio of Ahmed Alsoudani Mark Wiener 2010

As Guston, an artist he admires, "had the shoe, head, and the foot," Alsoudani has a range of imagery he employs and often refers to as his tools.

Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta: Stretching Time - In the Studio of Ahmed Alsoudani Mark Wiener 2010

Having just completed a memoir on Phillip Guston, this work reminds me a little of him.

Paul Klein: The Opening of Chicago's Fall Art Season Paul Klein 2011

The Phillips Collection is featuring the paintings of abstract expressionist Philip Guston, centered on his tenure as artist-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome during the early 1970s.

Visit the new Arts Post blog at washingtonpost.com/style. Music of defiance Post 2010

Citing Philip Guston and Willem de Kooning as painters of the group to whom his work relates, he explained that the New York School created an American identity in the art world, prior to which European art dominated everywhere.

Mark Wiener and Linda DiGusta: Stretching Time - In the Studio of Ahmed Alsoudani Mark Wiener 2010

The "manic society" gallery conjures a more recent artist, Philip Guston, who captured the absurdity of America in the 1960s.

A 'dark, twisted fantasy' revealed 2011

Soon after the death of Earl Kerkam, six artists, including Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann and Mark Rothko, wrote a letter to the Museum of Modern Art's board requesting that they grant an exhibition to this School of Paris figurative painter—who never actually bought into Abstract Expressionism.

Intersecting Planes and Opposing Angles Lance Esplund 2011