Museum Circle Salon: Sourcing Guston’s Late Creativity

Wednesday, July 23 at 5 PM. In conjunction with SLO’s exhibition of Philip Guston’s Cigar (1969) in our McMeen Spotlight, this Museum Circle talk examines a key source for the artist’s late-in-life reversal of high art ambition, seemingly exemplified in its jokey subject matter and cartoon-like style. Rejecting the “purity” of his 1950s abstractions, Guston turned the following decade to a raw and vulgar comedic style connected intimately to the ethnicity repudiated long before when changing his last name. Doors open at 5 PM. Talk begins at 5:30 PM. This event is exclusively for SLOMA’s Museum Circle members. Not a member yet? Join us! To reserve your spot, please RSVP with SLOMA’s Administrative Assistant, Hayden Gardner. For more Information or to become a member: https://sloma.org/mc_guston/

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