“…A painter (now dead) once had a studio in the same loft building I was in. He would greet me in the morning with ‘Are you not mixing Zinc with your Titanium?’ If not, he warned me, it would turn black eventually. Once, at 4 A.M., leaving the Automat nearby, he waved his goodnight finger, saying ‘Never use Zinc yellow—it will turn green.’ I would hear him always going up to the roof with his samples of color on small squares, exposing his colors to the sun. I once got into his studio and saw nothing but color square samples. Not a painting in sight. Five years later I moved to another loft.”
Letter from Philip Guston to Ross Field [1980]
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