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Philip Guston 1913–80, American painter, b. Montreal. Guston emigrated to the United States in 1916. His earliest role models, as an artist, were such Mexican muralists as JosE Orozco and David Siqueiros; he later made non-objective murals with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. His sensitivity to the relationships of mere colors on canvas caused some critics to call him an "impressionist" during the 1940s, but he was actually associated with the abstract impressionists. During the latter part of his life, his work was charged with social consciousness, cartoonish and blunt in approach. The Painter's City (1956; Janis Gall., New York City) is one of his most famous works.
See study by D. Ashton (1976).
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