This is a drawing made in preparation for a larger painting, which is now lost. Guston was just 17 years old and had recently been expelled from Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles.
Title Description - Souvenir photographs from a tour through blighted America, this small book manages to make dead rats, vacant lots, rotten apples and nuclear reactors look luridly alluring. 29 June 2009 (printedmatter.org).
Title Description - Future City documents the tangible remains of Future City, Illinois, a post-apocalyptic little hamlet situated at the southernmost tip of Illinois, between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The erstwhile houses of Broadway, First,…