Catalogue Raisonné
P69.125
Oil on canvas
72 x 67½ in.
182.9 x 171.4 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "CITY" [underlined] . 1969/ OIL - 72 x 67 1/2"
- Provenance
- The Guston Foundation
- Private Collection
- Exhibitions
- Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Recent Paintings", October 17, 1970 - November 07, 1970
- La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, "Philip Guston: Recent Work", July 31, 1971 - October 03, 1971
- XVI Bienal Internacional de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, "Philip Guston, Sus Ultimos Años", October 16, 1981 - December 20, 1981 Travelled to:
- Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario, Canada, "American Accents", June 06, 1983 - August 07, 1983 Travelled to:
- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003 Travelled to:
- Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, "Arte y utopiá. La acción restringida" (Art and Utopia, Action Restricted), June 03, 2004 - September 12, 2004 Travelled to:
- Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, "Dreamlands: Des parcs d'attractions aux cités du futur", May 05, 2010 - August 09, 2010
- Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland, "Philip Guston (1913 - 1980): Late Paintings", July 25, 2012 - October 07, 2012
- Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, "Philip Guston - das große Spätwerk", November 06, 2013 - February 02, 2014 Travelled to:
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022 Travelled to:
- Bibliography
- Rosenberg, Harold. "Liberation from Detachment." The New Yorker, November 7, 1970, pp. 136–41, mentioned in text pp. 136 and 139, not illus.
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1970, cat. no. 1, illustrated in color on the cover
- Philip Guston: Recent Work. Exh. brochure. La Jolla: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1971, cat. no. 1, not illus.
- Rosenberg, Harold. The De-Definition of Art: Action Art to Pop to Earthworks. New York: Horizon Press, 1972, mentioned in text pp. 132 and 138, not illus.
- Philip Guston: Sus Ultimos Anos. Exh. cat. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1981, cat. no. 1, illus. in b&w p. 9
- News (Mexico City). "Curator Gives Lecture on Guston Works Today." March 2, 1982, illus. in color, p. 16
- Kritzwiser, Kay. "Making artistic statements in an American accent." [publication unknown], 1983, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Geldzahler, Henry. "American Accents." Artmagazine (Canada), Summer 1983, illus. in color p. 17
- Geldzahler, Henry. American Accents Américains. Exh. cat. [Toronto]: Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Ltd., [1983], illus. in color (no page #)
- Greenwood, Michael. "Exhibitions: American Accents." MUSE (Canadian Museum Association), Winter/January 1984, pp. 40-42, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Sabbath, Lawrence. "'American Accents' excites and disappoints." Gazette (Montreal), December 8, 1984, p. E-15, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 48 p. 51
- American Visions. "Program 8: 1970–Present." Written and presented by Robert Hughes. BBC, Planet 24 Productions, Time, WNET Channel 13 New York, 1997. Television documentary series.
- Kutner, Janet. "Bold Strokes: Modern of Fort Worth Provides Grand Setting for Philip Guston's Daring Canvases." Dallas Morning News, March 30, 2003, section Arts Sunday, pp. 1C, 3C, illus. in color p. 1C as part of an installation photo
- Baker, Kenneth. "Philip Guston's Magnificent Conflicts Yielded Great Controversy. And Some Great Paintings as Well Says Kenneth Baker." San Francisco Chronicle, June 28, 2003, section DateBook, pp. D1, D10, mentioned in text p. D1, not illus.
- Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color, Plate 72, unpaginated
- Arte y utopiá. La acción restringida. Exh. cat. Barcelona: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 2005, illus. in color p. 297
- Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, Plate 9, illus. in color, p. 173
- Dreamlands : des parcs d'attractions aux cités du futur. Exh. cat. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2010, illus. in color p. 110
- Slifkin, Robert. "Philip Guston's Return to Figuration and the "1930s Renaissance" of the 1960s." The Art Bulletin 93, no. 2 (2011): pp. 220–42, Fig. 11 illus. in b&w p. 230 and mentioned in text p. 229
- Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, mentioned in text pp. 157 and 223, not illus.
- Bruce, Keith. "Between Pollock and Warhol." Herald (Glasgow, UK), July 27, 2012, section Arts, p. 19, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Spence, Rachel. "Darkness and light: Paintings by Philip Guston, Jock McFadyen and Leslie Hunter form a thrilling narrative in Edinburgh." Financial Times (London), August 2012, illus. in color
- Spence, Rachel. "Darkness and light: Paintings by Philip Guston, Jock Mcfadyen and Leslie Hunter form a thrilling narrative in Edinburgh." Financial Times (London), August 10, 2012, section Arts. Online, illus. in color
- Hamilton, Adrian. "Philip Guston: The Hand That Rocked the Art Establishment." Independent (London), August 20, 2012, section Arts & Entertainment, pp. 44-45, mentioned in text p. 44, not illus.
- James, Merlin. "Late Guston, Edinburgh." Burlington Magazine, November 2012, pp. 809–11, mentioned in text p. 811, not illus.
- Philip Guston: Late Paintings. Exh. cat. Edinburgh: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 2012, cat. no. 2, illus. in color (unpaginated)
- Dion. "Philip Guston at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt." Art News Blog, October 23, 2013. Online, illus. in color
- ArtMag by Deutsche Bank. "Let's Talk: Ingrid Pfeiffer & Bernhard Martin on Philip Guston." November 28, 2013–February 25, 2014. Online, illus. in color
- Pfeiffer, Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Philip Guston Das Grosse Spatwerk/Late Works. Exh. cat. Cologne: Strzeleckibooks, 2013, illus. in color p. 32 and mentioned in text p. 144 (English)/145 (German) (incorrectly mentioned as being from 1968)
- Slifkin, Robert. Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, illus. in color plate 13
- 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. 43, not illus.
- Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 69 and mentioned in text p. 63
- Cooper, Harry, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, and Kate Nesin. Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020, illus. in color Plate 120 p. 111
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 111 illus. in color p. 114
- Slifkin, Robert. "Ugly Feelings: Robert Slifkin on Philip Guston and white privilege." Artforum, January/February 2021, pp. 112-117, illus. in color p. 116 as part of an installation photo
- Mayer, Musa. "A New Book by Philip Guston's Daughter Explores the Origins of the Painter's Ku Klux Klan Imagery--Read an Excerpt Here." artnet News, March 18, 2021. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Anapur, Eli. "The Breakthrough Figuration of Philip Guston Explored at Hauser & Wirth." Widewalls, September 8, 2021. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Tracy, Marc and Robin Pogrebin. "Delayed Philip Guston Show Opens, With a Note From a Trauma Specialist." New York Times, May 1, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
- Smee, Sebastian. "In long-awaited Philip Guston show, great art comes with a warning." Washington Post, May 6, 2022. Online, illus. in color
- Bowen, Jared. 'Philip Guston Now' portrays art of controversial and confrontational painter. Washington D.C.: PBS News Hour, May 12, 2022. Video, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
- Harrington, Leah Triplett. "The MFA Boston Embraced Hard Conversations in Its Philip Guston Show. Why Doesn't It Examine Its Collection Just as Critically?" artnet News, May 26, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
- Bolton-Fasman, Judy. "The Art and Social Conscience of Jewish Artist Philip Guston." JewishBoston, June 28, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of slideshow
- Campanini, Cristiana. "Troubled Philip Guston." Abitare (Milan), August 3, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of a gallery of images attached to the article
- Yau, John. "Philip Guston's Haunted Testimonies." Hyperallergic, August 18, 2022. Online, illus. in color
- Parker, Dian. "Philip Guston's Pinks and Reds." Art & Object (Chapel Hill, NC), September 27, 2022. Online, illus. in color
- Guston, Philip. I Paint What I Want To See. Penguin Classics, 2022, mentioned in text p. 96, not illus.
- Philip Guston. Lyon: FAGE éditions, 2022, detail illus. in color on front cover and illus. in color p. 33
- Luzi, Irene. "Philip Guston alla Tate Modern, con più di 100 opere. Le immagini della mostra." ArtsLife (Milan), October 5, 2023. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
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Carolin, Clare. "Philip Guston: controversial delayed Tate show asks 'what would it be like to be evil?'" The Conversation, October 10, 2023. Online.
, mentioned in text, not illus. - Lloyd, Joe. "Philip Guston: This straight-laced, work-focused retrospective affirms Philip Guston's place as one of the 20th century's finest painters." Studio International, October 19, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Holman, Matthew. "The Big Review: Philip Guston at Tate Modern ★★★★★." Art Newspaper, November 2, 2023. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
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Lawson-Tancred, Jo, "A Long-Delayed Retrospective of Philip Guston's Acerbic Paintings Finally Opens in London." artnet News, January 3, 2024. Online.
, illus. in color as part of an installation photo