Philip Guston: Some Thoughts.

The author dreams of an ideal world, where a museum of artist Philip Guston would exist, in which a generous selection of Guston's paintings and drawings would be permanently on view. The author do not feel this way about every artist whose work he admires. The author feels a constant, almost physical hunger for Guston's paintings, particularly the late ones, and rejoice in each chance he have to see some of them. This need is so keen that even as he is immersed in looking at a Guston canvas, he find it impossible to forget that the opportunity is fleeting, that all too soon the show will close or the museum will rehang its collection, and he will once again be forced to live in a Guston-less world. Guston has been one of the main influences on American painting, both abstract and figurative in the last quarter century.