Philip Guston

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P40.007

Work and Play (Queensbridge Housing Project Mural), 1940
Casein-glyptol tempera on gesso
480 x 69 in.
1219.2 x 175.3 cm

Provenance: Queensbridge Community Center of the Queensbridge Houses
Exhibitions: Queensbridge Community Center , Long Island City, NY, "'Work and Play' mural by Philip Guston", March 18, 1941
Bibliography: New York Herald Tribune. "Section of Mural to Be Unveiled at Queens Houses." [c. 1939–1940], detail illus. in b&w; The New York Times. "Art Brevities." March 15, 1940, p. L21, mentioned in text, not illus.; New York Herald Tribune. "Mural Will be Unveiled at Queensbridge Project." March 13, 1941, detail illus. in b&w; The New York Times. "Art Commission Approves Mural." March 16, 1941, b&w photo of mural installed in the lobby and b&w photo of detail of mural; Brooklyn Daily Eagle. "Dedicate WPA Mural Depicting Community Center Activities," March 19, 1941, p. 6, mentioned in text, not illus.; Daily Iowan. "Industry as Symbol of American Democracy." October 9, 1941, p. 4, detail illus. in b&w and cropped on right (person mostly cropped out). Work also misidentified as being a design for the Social Security mural in Washington D.C.; Hinkle, Karl. ''Artist Must Bridge Gap Between Artists and Public: Guston Expresses Sentiment of Today's Young American Painter." Daily Iowan, October 9, 1941, p. 4, mentioned in text, not illus.; "Work and Play" mural by Phillip Guston for Queensbridge Houses Community Center. Dedication program. New York: Work Projects Administration Arts Program, March 18, 1941, mentioned in text p. 2, not illus.; Janson, H. W. "'Martial Memory' by Philip Guston and American Painting Today." Bulletin of the City Art Museum of Saint Louis, December 1942, pp. 34–41, Fig. 2 detail illus in b&w p. 40 and mentioned in text pp. 39 and 40, detail titled as "Fighting Boys"; Austin American. "2nd in Series of Exhibitions Opens Tuesday: Thon, Guston and Shulkin Work to Be Presented." July 30, 1944, mentioned in text, not illus.; F[rost], R[osamund]. "Guston: Meaning out of Monumentality." ARTnews, February 1, 1945, p. 24, detail illus. in b&w; Janson, H. W.. Magazine of Art. "Philip Guston." February 1947, pp. 54–58, detail illus. in b&w p. 54; Stokes, Anson Phelps. "God's Place in the School." The New York Times, January 18, 1953, detail illus. in b&w; Sandler, Irving. "Guston: A Long Voyage Home." ARTnews, December 1959, pp. 36–39, 64–65, detail illus. in b&w No. 1, p. 36. Mentioned in text p. 37; Beckh, Erica. "Government Art in the Roosevelt Era: An Appraisal of Federal Art Patronage in the Light of Present Needs." Art Journal, Fall 1960, pp. 2–8, detail illus. in b&w pg. 7, Fig. 7; Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, detail illus. in b&w p. 13; Canaday, John. "Their Separate Ways: Jack Levine and Philip Guston." In Embattled Critic: View on Modern Art. New York: Noonday Press, 1962, mentioned in text p. 139, not illus.; Sandler, Irving. The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism. New York: Harper & Row, Icon Editions, 1976, mentioned in text p. 261, not illus.; O'Connor, Francis V., ed. "Philip Guston and Political Humanism." In Arts and Architecture in the Service of Politics, edited by Henry A. Milton and Linda Nochlin. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1978, mentioned in text p. 345, not illus.; Art Inc., American Paintings from Corporate Collections. Exh. cat. Montgomery: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1979, mentioned in text p. 176, not illus.; Rickey, Carrie. "Philip Guston 1913–1980: Dreaming with His Eyes Open." Village Voice, June 23, 1980, p. 73, mentioned in text, not illus.; Coolidge, Clark. "Clark Coolidge Class 1." Naropa Institute Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Boulder, July 1, 1980, Audio recording, quick mention; Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, Fig. 2 detail illus. in b&w p. 14; Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, mentioned in text p. 60 as part of Chronology, not illus.; Lieberman, Richard K., and Cathy Gross Thompson. "Art Watch." New York, March 30, 1987, includes color reproduction of detail from mural; Greene, Alison de Lima. "The Artist as Performer: Philip Guston's Early Work." Arts Magazine, November 1988, pp. 55–61, mentioned in text p. 56, not illus.; Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. 1988. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1990, mentioned in text p. 31, not illus.; Shapiro, Michael Edward. "Philip Guston: The War Years." Print Collector's Newsletter, September–October 1994, mentioned in text p. 128, not illus.; Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties. Exh. cat. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1997, detail illus. in b&w p. 3; Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, mentioned in text p. 131, not illus.; Philip Guston: Odd Man Out. BBC Four, January 28, 2004. Television, illus. in color and detail in color; Baker, R. C. "Before the Empire Strikes Back." Village Voice, October 6–12, 2004, p. 30, detail illus. in color and mentioned in text; Baskind, Samantha. Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists. London: Greenwood Press, 2007, mentioned in text p. 137, not illus.; Botelho, Manuel. Guston em contexto: até ao regresso da figura. Lisbon: Livros Vendaval, 2007, mentioned in text p. 44, not illus.; Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. New York: American Academy in Rome; New York Review of Books, 2014, mentioned in text p. 41, not illus.; Baker, R. C. "Master Baffler: How Philip Guston Gave Form to Doubt." Village Voice, May 17, 2016, section Visual Arts. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.; Cole, Thomas B. "The Porch Philip Guston." JAMA, July 12, 2016, mentioned in text p. 132, not illus.; Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: Un ritratto intimo di Philip Guston. Monza: Johan & Levi, 2017, mentioned in text p. 42, not illus.; Conversations on Artists' Estates & Modern Masters for Art Basel 2019. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2019, detail illus. in color p. 87. Also mentioned in text p. 87; Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text p. 59, not illus.; Jacobs, Julia. "The Virus Won't Revive F.D.R.'s Arts Jobs Program. Here's Why." New York Times, April 22, 2020. Online, illus. in b&w photo of Guston working on mural as kids watch; Cooper, Harry, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, and Kate Nesin. Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020, mentioned in text pp. 11, 24, 185 and 225, not illus.; Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 7 illus. in b&w pp. 20-21; Whyte, Murray. "Guston show gives new entry points--and exits." Boston Globe, May 1, 2022, pp. N1, N2, mentioned in text, not illus.; Greene, Alison de Lima. "Philip Guston: Living in a World Museum." h (Houston), Fall 2022, pp. 26-29, mentioned in text p. 27, not illus.