To B.W.T., Philip Guston

Philip Guston, To B.W.T., 1952. Oil on canvas. From his abstract years, dedicated to the painter Bradley Walker Tomlin: an “electrified field where every mark is magnetized.” Met in SAM’s collection, not the Giacometti show, the early Guston before the hooded figures.

Grows from

  • Philip Guston - the seed this work grows from. An abstract-period Guston, the side of him nearer my axis than the late figures.

First seen