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Chronology

1913
Born June 27, Montreal, Canada.

1919
Moves to Los Angeles.

1927
Begins drawing and painting.

1934
Travels in Mexico.

1936
Moves to New York.

1937
Marries Musa McKim.

1936–40
Works on WPA Federal Arts Project, New York.

1939
Mural on façade, WPA Building, New York World's Fair; awarded first prize for Outdoor Murals, New York World's Fair.

1940
Mural for Queensbridge Housing Project, New York.

1941
Mural for Forestry Building, Laconia, New Hampshire (with Musa McKim).

1941–45
Professor, State University of Iowa, Iowa City.


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1942
Mural for Social Security Building, Washington, D. C.

1943
Birth of daughter, Musa Jane.

1944
One-man exhibition, State University of Iowa, Iowa City.

1945
One-man exhibition, Midtown Galleries, New York; awarded first prize, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.

1945–47
Artist-in-Residence, Washington University, Saint Louis.

1946
Awarded John Barton Payne Purchase Prize, Biennial, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.

1947
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship; Altman Prize, National Academy of Design, New York; Joseph Pennell Memorial Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; one-man exhibitions at School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institue, Utica, New York.

1948
Awarded Purchase Prize, University of Illinois, Urbana, and a $1000 grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; awarded Prix de Rome, American Academy in Rome.

1948–49
Travels in Europe.

1950
Artist-in-Residence, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, spring term; one-man exhibition, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

1951–58
Adjunct Professor, New York University, Fine Arts Department, Washington Square Campus.

1952
One-man exhibition, Peridot Gallery, New York.

1953
One-man exhibition, Egan Gallery, New York.

1953–58
Teacher at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.

1956, 1958, 1960, 1961
One-man exhibitions, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York.

1959
Awarded Flora Mayer Witkowsky Prize, The Art Institute of Chicago; $10,000 Ford Foundation Grant; retrospective exhibition, V Biennal, São Paulo, Brazil.


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1960
Retrospective exhibition, XXX Biennale, Venice.

1961
Exhibition with Franz Kline, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles.

1961, 1963, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974
Guest Critic, Yale Summer School, Norfolk, Connecticut.

1962
Retrospective exhibition, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (shown thereafter: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Los Angeles County Museum of Art).

1966
Retrospective exhibition, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; one-man exhibition, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, and at The Jewish Museum, New York (Comprehensive Exhibition of 80 Recent Paintings and Drawings).

1967
Leaves New York City to live in Woodstock, New York.

1967–73
Seminar teacher, New York Studio School, New York.

1968
Awarded second Guggenheim Fellowship.

1969, 1973, 1974
One-man exhibition, Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit.

1969, 1970, 1972
Guest Critic, Columbia University, Graduate School of Fine Arts.

1970
One-man exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, and at Boston University; awarded Honorary Degree, D. F. A., Boston University.

1971
One-man exhibition, La Jolla Museum of Modern Art, La Jolla, California.

1971
Artist-in-Residence, American Academy in Rome.

1972–1980
University Professor and Graduate Seminar instructor, Boston University.

1973
One-man exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Philip Guston Drawings 19381972.

1974
One-man exhibition, Boston University, School of Fine and Ap-


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plied Arts Gallery, New Paintings; one-man exhibition, David McKee Gallery, New York.

1975
Awarded Distinguished Teaching of Art Award, The College Art Association of America; one-man exhibition, Makler Gallery, Philadelphia.

1976
Exhibition at David McKee Gallery, New York.

1977
Exhibition at David McKee Gallery, New York.

1978
Shows drawings at David McKee Gallery; paintings at Alan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago. Major exhibition of new works at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Elected member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1979
Exhibition at David McKee Gallery, New York. Included in New PaintingNew York at Hayward Gallery, London. Suffers serious heart attack.

1980
Large retrospective, 1930–1979, opens at the San Francisco Museum of Art in May and travels later to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Denver Art Museum; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Suffers another heart attack June 7 and dies in Woodstock, New York.

Retrospective exhibition, XVI Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Brazil. Traveled to Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Centro de Arte Moderno, Guadalajara; Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia.

1982–83
Retrospective, Philip Guston: Paintings 19691980, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Traveled to Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and Kunsthalle, Basel.

1984
Exhibition, Philip Guston: The Late Works, arranged by International Cultural Corporation of Australia, Ltd. Traveled to National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney.

1988
Philip Guston: A Drawings Retrospective, exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.


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1989–90
Retrospective exhibition organized by the Ministro de Cultura, Madrid. Traveled to Centro de Arte, Madrid; Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona; The Saint Louis Art Museum; the Dallas Museum of Art.


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Guston's self-portrait, c. 1944, beneath an unfinished 1975 painting. (Denise Hare)


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