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Musa Jane McKim Guston (née McKim; August 23, 1908 – March 30, 1992), was a painter and poet. Born in Oil City, Pennsylvania, McKim spent much of her youth in Panama. During the Great Depression, she worked under the Section of Fine Arts, painting murals in public buildings, including a Post Office building in Waverly, New York.
Apr 2, 1992 · Musa McKim Guston, a poet and painter who was the widow of the Abstract Expressionist artist Philip Guston, died on Monday at Kingston Hospital in Kingston, N.Y. She was 83...
May 25, 2023 · In a choice that now seems prescient, my mother, Musa McKim Guston, and I added to his N.F.S. list in the years after his death, curating a collection of works representative of the entire fifty years of his career that could be loaned to retrospectives and survey exhibitions.
Oct 20, 2021 · The Works Progress Administration gave jobs to unemployed Americans during the Great Depression. Artists Philip Guston and Musa McKim used the opportunity to depict New Hampshire’s forests.
Dec 14, 2022 · More than 200 works by Philip Guston — the celebrated artist whose paintings featuring Klan imagery recently created a firestorm — are coming to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the personal...
Feb 4, 2019 · New York – A gift given recently in the name of poet and painter Musa McKim Guston (MF 1966) will fund an annual Fellowship for an artist working in any of seven disciplines at The MacDowell Colony, one of the nation’s leading contemporary arts organizations.
Musa McKim Guston (1908-1992) was a poet and painter, and a muralist for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. She was married to New York School artist Philip Guston, whom she met while attending the Otis Art Institute.
