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Painter's Hand
Philip Guston American, born Canada
Not on view
Thanks to the painted border at top and bottom, Painter’s Hand reads like a picture within a picture—or, rather, like a picture of a painting hanging on a wall. Its self-referential quality is typical of Guston’s work from the 1970s, in which he often represents his aging body as well as the creative act itself. Here, the artist gives visual form to his philosophy of painting, as described in 1972: "I might explain it . . . as a process of interaction between you and the paint and the surface in front of you. A give-and-take, I mean to say."
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