Guston

Sept. 14 “Three Voices,” the Resonance Collective at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles Morton Feldman’s “Three Voices” is a mesmerizing hommage to a friend, the late painter Philip Guston.

Before Philip Guston developed the loud and plush figuration of his renown, before he Anglicized his surname in adulthood, the 12-year-old known as Philip Goldstein joined the art staff of the Los Angeles Times Junior Club.

From 1925 to 1929, in these pages, Guston honed his pen for an audience of the West Coast’s largest home delivery.

Could they add to our understanding of Guston and his art?

In one strip, Kolly visits a Junior Times columnist, Tony Correra, who in real life lived blocks from Guston in South Los Angeles.