About

Leon Golub: Bite Your Tongue showcases the trajectory of Leon Golub, the postwar
figurative American painter who produced over 50 paintings and drawings of small
and large scale between 1950 and 2004.

A great admirer of Mexican muralism, Golub (Chicago, 1922 – New York, 2004) believed
that art had an obligation to respond to its time and collective human experiences. His
works are profoundly psychological and emotive – often painted on a huge scale – and
return again and again to themes of oppression, violence and the misuse of power.

His paintings from the 1950s depict universal images of man and …