Philip Guston’s Lines of Poetry

Philip Guston’s Lines of Poetry

Philip Guston loved poets. In 1968, after he and his wife, the artist and poet Musa McKim, and their teenage daughter moved to Woodstock, New York, he began to radically shift his work from abstraction to a cartoonish world of people and things. This change coincided with his beginning to collaborate with a close circle of poet friends, particularly Clark Coolidge, who lived nearby. From then until his death in 1980, he did drawings for many poe…