Arthur Swoger

In this contact sheet, Swogercaptures visitors at a 1958 show of Philip Guston’s paintings at the Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. Guston is seen in the bottom two images in the first vertical column, as well as others throughout the sheet. In these two frames, Guston is speaking with animation to Mercedes Matther, a painter who also circulated in the Abstract Expressionist circle. An image of Aaron Siskind - with disheveled hair and a cigarette in his mouth at a rakish angle - in conversation with a female guest appears in the third column. In one of the fourth-column frames, gallery owner Sydney Janis admires Guston’s paintings and speaks with guests.