Philip Guston moved through a number of painting styles before arriving at Neo-Expressionism. In the 1930s, he worked as a muralist with the WPA; by the 1950s, he had embraced Abstract Expressionism. A decade later, he rejected abstraction and its high drama, turning instead to a cartoonish imagery—implacable and haunting—that would stun the art world. In the late 1960s, Guston collaborated with the writer Philip Roth on a satirical novel—Our Gang (1971)—about President Nixon and his entourage. Guston produced more than 80 drawings for the book, taking inspiration from the dark humor found in works by Picasso, George Grosz, and George Harriman. This exhibition presents Guston’s “Nixon Drawings” along with his later paintings. —Elena Clavarino