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The artist was born Philip Goldstein in Montreal, Canada. He moved with his family to California in 1919 and began painting public murals dealing with social and political issues while living in Los Angeles in the early 1930s. He soon followed his friend Jackson Pollock to New York City, where he painted Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals and began exploring abstraction as a new way of working. He married the poet and artist Musa McKim in 1937 and in the same year changed his name to Guston. 2 cm, Fogg Art Museum, Bequest of Musa Guston, 1993.

The artist was born Philip Goldstein in Montreal, Canada. He moved with his family to California in 1919 and began painting public murals dealing with social and political issues while living in Los Angeles in the early 1930s. He soon followed his friend Jackson Pollock to New York City, where he painted Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals and began exploring abstraction as a new way of working. He married the poet and artist Musa McKim in 1937 and in the same year changed his name to Guston. 2 cm, Fogg Art Museum, Bequest of Musa Guston, 1993. The artist was born Philip Goldstein in Montreal, Canada. He moved with his family to California in 1919 and began painting public murals dealing with social and political issues while living in Los Angeles in the early 1930s. He soon followed his friend Jackson Pollock to New York City, where he painted Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals and began exploring abstraction as a new way of working. He married the poet and artist Musa McKim in 1937 and in the same year changed his name to Guston. By the mid-1950s Guston had moved from expressive realism to abstract expressionism. The National Gallery of Canada is extremely proud to present this landmark exhibition. The National Gallery of Canada will be the only North American venue for the show. In addition to the international loans from important private or public collections in Europe and North America, the exhibition will feature the painting Room, painted four years before the artist's death in 1976, and acquired last year by the National Gallery of Canada. A visceral and strong large-scale canvas, populated by unsettling figures and objects, Room exemplifies the fusion of iconographic complexity and painterliness that makes it a significant example of his mature work. A fully illustrated catalogue in English and French has been produced for the exhibition by the Kunstmuseum, Bonn.
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