A print of a series of overlapping brick-like structures, abstract buildings and shoe soles.

The Street

Date1970

Mediumlithograph on paper

DimensionsSight: 21 1/4 × 27 1/4 inches (54 × 69.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky.

Object number1973.8.13

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Copyright© The Estate of Philip Guston. The images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextPhilip Guston is an American painter known for his influential and personal style of figuration, but he began his career as an Abstract Expressionist. With an early interest in art, Guston attended Los Angeles’ Manual Arts High School where he met Jackson Pollock, who became one of the world’s most seminal AbEx artists. After moving to New York City in 1936, Guston spent more time with Abstract Expressionists such as Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko. Being part of such an intensive New York art scene influenced his gestural, expressive paintings. However, in 1967, Guston became increasingly frustrated with abstraction and returned to his personal style of figuration. The Street was created shortly after Guston’s change of style for which he remains best known—an iconic lexicon of symbols such as shoes, hands, cigarettes, clocks, lightbulbs and Klansmen.

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