Arthur Swoger

Guston Show at Sydney Janis

Maker

Arthur Swoger (American, 1912-2000)

Title

Guston Show at Sydney Janis

Year

1958

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

Image: 19.4 x 25.6 cm (7 5/8 x 10 1/16 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Rachel Swoger

Object Number

2005.124

Type

Exhibition History

The New York School
Aaron Siskind in Context
Nov 07, 2003 – Jan 25, 2004

Label copy

In this contact sheet, Swogercaptures visitors at a 1958 show of Philip Guston’s paintings at the Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. Guston is seen in the bottom two images in the first vertical column, as well as others throughout the sheet. In these two frames, Guston is speaking with animation to Mercedes Matther, a painter who also circulated in the Abstract Expressionist circle. An image of Aaron Siskind - with disheveled hair and a cigarette in his mouth at a rakish angle - in conversation with a female guest appears in the third column. In one of the fourth-column frames, gallery owner Sydney Janis admires Guston’s paintings and speaks with guests.

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Tombstone

Arthur Swoger (American, 1912-2000)
Guston Show at Sydney Janis, 1958
Gelatin silver print (contact sheet)
Image: 19.4 x 25.6 cm (7 5/8 x 10 1/16 inches)
Gift of Rachel Swoger 2005.124

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