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Today marks the end of Daylight Saving TimeStandard time resumes at 2 A.M. today, so remember to set your clocks back one hour!
Time takes on sinister dimensions in today's abstract painting, part of our traveling exhibition Modernism & Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Philip Guston painted Transition during a period of deteriorating health. Its mood is nightmarish, the artist hiding behind a canvas as a clock marks time and a door beckons. Horrified by the Holocaust, Guston included a pile of shoes in this disjointed scenario as a reference to the Jews who were exterminated during World War II.
Source: Modernism & Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (exhibition text, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1999).
Pictured: Philip Guston, 1913 Canada–1980 USA, Transition, 1975, oil, 66 x 80 1/2 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Musa Guston.