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''It is the nakedness of drawing that I like,'' Philip Guston once said. Drawing, part of a back-to-basics ethos, helped him to negotiate the transition from Abstract Expressionism to a more figurative style. During his most restless and embattled period, from 1966 to 1968, he abandoned painting entirely and made hundreds of drawings, some as simple as a commalike swipe of an ink brush on an otherwise blank piece of paper. ''PHILIP GUSTON: WORKS ON PAPER,'' opening on Friday at the MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM, is the first retrospective of his drawings in two decades. The show was organized by the Kunstmuseum in Bonn and the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in Munich. The Morgan is its only stop in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews several art exhibitions to be held in the U.S. including the "New Work: Mai-Thu Perret" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from November 21 to March 1, 2009, exhibition by painter Marc Seguin at Charest-Weinberg Gallery in Miami, Florida on December 5, 2008 and an exhibition by artist Trenton Doyle Hancock at New York's James Cohan Gallery from November 20, 2008 through January 3, 2009.

Reviews the `Works on Paper,' an art exhibition which was held in New York, New York.