Comments on: Memories of Philip Guston

By: Barnaby Conrad

Barnaby Conrad — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 18:43:25 +0000

Dear Caren,

It’s been a long time since we studied together (with Langdon, too!) at Tanglewood under Gabriel Laderman….

I enjoyed your memoir of Philip Guston, who I interviewedt at the McKee Gallery in the old Barbizon Hotel circa 1977…A fascinating guy!

Warm regards,

Barnaby Conrad

By: AJ Rombach

AJ Rombach — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 13:14:23 +0000

I enjoyed your recollection of this time in graduate school. I’m finishing my MFA at Boston University right now. Its resonating heavily. Thank you.

By: mario rinald

mario rinald — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:11:36 +0000

yes, a beautifully articulate man… I wish I had known him.

By: Barbara (Barth) Liss

Barbara (Barth) Liss — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 17:49:00 +0000

Caren – your article is a wonderfully evocotive personal story. Thank you for sharing it with those of us who never got to know the man. It will always inform how I look at his work in the future. You were clearly blessed to have him at such an important time in your development. Great article.

By: Caren Canier

Caren Canier — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 18:10:42 +0000

In reply to Grant Drumheller. Thanks, Grant. It's good to have my memories and perceptions affirmed by people who were there. He was a force!

By: Grant Drumheller

Grant Drumheller — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 23:13:30 +0000

Thanks Caren for the well written piece! Memories of his comments always bring him back to me, and I think you speak for many former students about the Guston acolytes who don’t really get it and group shows that purport to reveal his “effect”
on painters. His most important message to painters was to find one’s own creative voice, and he urged us all to pick up that mantle- the “look” of something being relatively unimportant to him. He was interested in life in painting and finding vitality, something “plastic”! That movie kills me… especially when he is walking throughout the museum galleries and looking at his own work, touching the paintings.

By: Ginnie Gardiner

Ginnie Gardiner — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:25:24 +0000

In reply to Caren Canier.

Yes, I know….we are WAY overdue!

All best,
Ginnie

By: Caren Canier

Caren Canier — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 08:32:08 +0000

In reply to Ginnie Gardiner. Thank to you, Ginnie, for your comments. We still have to get together!

By: Ginnie Gardiner

Ginnie Gardiner — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 21:27:21 +0000

One of the highlights of my many years of gallery going was visiting the McKee Gallery to see the figurative paintings by Philip Guston. I found the visceral quality of his paint thrilling.

Thank you so much Caren, and thank you for sharing your experiences of Guston when you were his student.

By: Caren Canier

Caren Canier — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 06:31:01 +0000

In reply to Susan Mastrangelo. Thanks, Susan. Your comments mean the world to me as confirmation of my memories since you were there! The intensity of those days on Walnut Street seems like yesterday...