TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK / PHILIP GUSTON ~

 

  Yale 2024

PHILIP GUSTON: I Paint What I Want To See ~

 

R E A D   M E

   Penguin Books, 2022

PHILIP GUSTON, HURRAH! ~

 

R E A D     M E

E X P L O R E

photo: Genevieve Hanson

PHILIP GUSTON, NOW ~

National Gallery of Art, D.A.P

2020

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G O     H E R E

VISITING JANINE ~

 

The other day we went down to the Catskills to take care of Janine Pommy Vega’s grave site. Ten years ago already we chose the red Vermont granite for her stone, and I asked that “Poet” be all there was on the stone other than her name and date. She looks awful alone there, friends.  Susan noticed that, a woman to woman eye thing. I then took Susan to Philip Guston’s grave, Musa beside him. Now the PC crowd have canceled his very large and important exhibit of art work spanning a life time because it will include his dizzy Klansmen. Wait until 2024 the artsy legislatures command. To see one of those paintings, and I have in backwater Hanover, NH, is something to behold. In the cemetery all is equal so very early in the morning in the rain.

[ BA ]

Grasshopper, good singer!

Take care of my tomb

when I die

Janine loved this poem by Issa

translated by Nanao Sakaki

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UPDATE: GUSTON

photographs: bob arnold 

VISITING JANINE ~

 

The other day we went down to the Catskills to take care of Janine Pommy Vega’s grave site. Ten years ago already we chose the red Vermont granite for her stone, and I asked that “Poet” be all there was on the stone other than her name and date. She looks awful alone there, friends.  Susan noticed that, a woman to woman eye thing. I then took Susan to Philip Guston’s grave, Musa beside him. Now the PC crowd have canceled his very large and important exhibit of art work spanning a life time because it will include his dizzy Klansmen. Wait until 2024 the artsy legislatures command. To see one of those paintings, and I have in backwater Hanover, NH, is something to behold. In the cemetery all is equal so very early in the morning in the rain.

UPDATE: GUSTON

photographs: bob arnold 

WITNESS : ART & CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE SIXTIES ~

Jack Levine

Birmingham '63

(1963)

Philip Guston

City Limits

(1969)

 May Stevens

Big Daddy Paper Doll

(1968)

 Ben Shahn

Human Relations Portfolio

Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney

(1965)

This is a terrific show — to see so many of the paintings and photographs in the flesh (of a sort)
in a New England college town, is an achievement to witness; plus the settings of each art piece are masterfully thought through and placed. Get yourself to The Hood in Hanover, run up the stairs (second floor) and quietly absorb and sink into the burning.

http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/exhibitions/2014witness/

http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/docs/2014witnesspressrelease2.pdf