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Musa 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. She was the wife of New York School artist Philip Guston, whom she met while attending the Otis Art Institute. In cooperation with him, she painted a mural in a United States Forest Service building in Laconia, New Hampshire, and panels which were placed aboard United States Maritime Commission ships. After her painting career, she wrote poetry, publishing her work in small literary magazines. Along with her husband and daughter, she lived in Iowa City, Iowa and New York City, eventually settling in Woodstock, New York. == Art career == McKim studied at the Otis Art Institute. She worked as a painter under the Section of Fine Arts, creating murals in public places during the Great Depression. She was commissioned to paint a mural for the Post Office branch building in Waverly, New York 1939.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New York New Deal Art )〕 Entitled 'Spanish Hill and the Early Inhabitants of the Vicinity,' the work depicts Native Americans as well as early settlers to the region. The appearance of the settlers was based on members of McKim's family, including her father, Frederick McKim and her mother, Musa Hunter McKim. Her daughter, Musa Mayer (née Guston), noted that McKim's sister Josephine is not depicted, although she suggests that the "spirited black horse their mother struggles to control" could be a symbolic representation of her. For her work, she was paid $650 by the Section of Fine Arts. According to Mayer, McKim disliked the mural. In 1941, she worked alongside her husband in the painting of two murals for the U.S. Forest Service building in Laconia, New Hampshire. Commissioned by the Section of Fine Arts, the murals are titled 'Pulp Wood Logging' and 'Wildlife in White Mountain.'〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Federal Building, Laconia, NH )〕 The former, a logging scene, was executed by Philip, while the latter, depicting local wildlife, was painted by Musa.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Laconia Forestry Building )〕 In a 1965 interview, Philip stated that Musa "did several other murals for the Section of Fine Arts."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Oral history interview with Philip Guston, 1965 Jan. 29 )〕 In addition to her other work, she and her husband were employed by the United States Maritime Commission to paint a series of panels which were to be installed in three cargo ships: the USS ''President Monroe'', the USS ''President Jackson'' and the USS ''President Hayes''. After her painting career, she wrote poetry; her work was published in small literary journals, including ''Locus Solus''. In 1982, her poetry was published alongside Philip's artwork in the Summer edition of the ''The Harvard Advocate''. Guston posed for her husband throughout his career for various works, including a 1944 painting entitled ''The Young Mother'', for which she sat along with their daughter, also named Musa.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Philip Guston (American, born in Canada 1913–1980) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Musa McKim」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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