Enrique Chagoya
In his drawing series Poor George (2004), Mexican-born artist Enrique Chagoya pays homage to Philip Guston's drawings Poor Richard (Nixon), as well as to the work of Mexican satirist José Guadalupe Posada. In Poor George #2, letters spelling the name BILLY - perhaps a reference to Bush's evangelical Christian pastor Billy Graham - flank the precipice of a towering babel, while Bush looks upward towards a mounted cross. By joining the two American Presidential administrations, Chagoya raises questions about history repeating itself, while honoring Guston's work in iconography, subject and title, and in the restricted use of tones (black, red).