Catalogue Raisonné
P40.008
Oil and pencil on canvas
24½ x 28 in.
62.2 x 71.1 cm
Signed front lower left: P. GUSTON
- Provenance
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Edward R. Broida
- Edward R. Broida
- Dr. and Mrs. Joel Freedman, New York
- Exhibitions
- Iowa Memorial Union, Iowa City, IA, "Paintings and Drawings by Philip Guston", March 05, 1944 - March 19, 1944
- Midtown Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", January 15, 1945 - February 10, 1945
- Institute of Modern Art, Boston, MA, "Twelve Americans", March 08, 1946 - April 07, 1946
- Watkins Institute, Nashville, TN, "[Unknown Title]", October 01, 1948 - October 23, 1948
- Michigan State College, East Lansing, MI, "[Unknown Title]", February 06, 1949 - February 24, 1949
- University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, "Philip Guston", April 10, 1950 - May 12, 1950
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989 Travelled to:
- University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties", January 25, 1997 - March 16, 1997 Travelled to:
- Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, "The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works", March 12, 1998 - June 21, 1998
- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003 Travelled to:
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection", May 03, 2006 - July 10, 2006
- Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, "Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico", September 09, 2006 - November 25, 2006
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture", October 03, 2010 - April 25, 2011 Travelled to:
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Painting and Sculpture Changes 2011", December 09, 2011 - June 19, 2012
- Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, "Mexico: A Revolution in Art 1910 - 1940", July 06, 2013 - September 29, 2013
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022 Travelled to:
- Bibliography
- 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. 3 illus. in b&w p. 41, titled as "Fighting Boys"
- Daily Iowan. "Prof. Philip Guston's Paintings of Army, Navy on Display." March 5, 1944, p. 3, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Paintings and Drawings by Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Iowa City: State University of Iowa, 1944, cat. no. 17, not illus.. No specific date for work listed
- Breuning, Margaret. "Philip Guston Impresses in New York Debut." Art Digest, January 15, 1945, p. 12, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Midtown Galleries, 1945, cat. no. 11, not illus., listed as being from 1940
- Twelve Americans. Exh. cat. Boston: The Institute of Modern Art, 1946, cat. no. 8, not illus., listed as being from 1940
- Campbell, Ruth. "Art Exhibit at Watkins Is Fine Cultural Gesture." Tennessean, October 3, 1948, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Lansing State Journal. "Two New York Exhibits Open on MSC Campus." February 6, 1949, section two, p. 11, illus. in b&w
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Minneapolis: University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1950, cat. no. 1, illus. in b&w no page #, listed as being from 1940
- Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 48. Listed as being from 1940
- Workman, Andree M. "Guston: A Born-Again Painter." West Art (Auburn, CA), June 13, 1980, pp. 1, 3, mentioned in text p. 3, not illus.
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, Fig. 3 illus. in b&w p. 15
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 10 p. 15 and mentioned in text pp. 16, 17, 19 and 82. Listed as being from 1938
- Gallego, Julian. "El gusto de Guston." ABC (Madrid), March 2, 1989, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Miralles, Francesc. "Guston, la lucha a contracorriente: Se exhibe en Barcelona una retrospectiva del pintor norteamericano." La Vanguardia (Barcelona), June 17, 1989, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Brandenburg, John. "Seeing Guston's Art Requires a 'Leap' to Dallas." Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK), December 24, 1989, section Travel & Entertainment, p. 4, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura. Exh. cat. Essays by Mark Rosenthal, Robert Storr, Carrie Rickey, Francisco Calvo Serraller, and Dore Ashton. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, Centro Nacional de Exposiciones, 1989, cat. no. 3, illus. in color p. 34, listed as being from 1938
- Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 48
- Day, Jeffrey. "Greenville Takes the Lead with Guston and Mann Exhibits." The State (Columbia, SC), May 11, 1997, section Tempo, pp. F1, F3, mentioned in text p. F1, not illus.
- Patterson, Tom. "Guston's '40s Works Frame His Future." Charlotte Observer, May 18, 1997, section Arts & Entertainment, pp 1F & 4F, mentioned in text p. 4F, not illus.
- Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties. Exh. cat. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1997, Paintings cat. no. 1, illus. in color p. 21
- Mack, Gerhard. "Philip Guston Künstler." Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst 36, no. 3 (1997): pp. 1–16, illus. in color fig. 2, p. 4
- The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works. Exh. cat. Orlando: Orlando Museum of Art, 1998, illus. in color p. 70
- Leydier, Richard. "Philip Guston l'heretique/The Heresies of Philip Guston." Art Press, October 2000, pp. 36–41, mentioned in text p. 39, not illus.
- Newton, Steven James. Painting, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, illus. in b&w fig. 17 p. 122 and mentioned in text pp. 122-123
- Cooper, Harry. "Recognizing Guston (In Four Slips)." October 99 (2002): pp. 96–129, mentioned in text p. 120, not illus.
- Hancock, Trenton Doyle. "Philip Guston Retrospective: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth." Art Lies (Houston), Summer 2003, p. 67, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
- Slifkin, Robert S. "Dark Unfathomed Retrospect." Art Journal 62, no. 4 (2003): pp. 105–08, mentioned in text p. 106, not illus.
- Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 6, unpaginated (but would be p. 103) and mentioned in text pp. 23-24 (Michael E. Shapiro essay), briefly mentioned in text p. 76 (Joseph Rishel essay). Listed as from 1938.
- Campbell, Peter. "Philip Guston fouls the nest." London Review of Books, February 5, 2004. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Rubinstein, Raphael. "Philip Guston: Some Thoughts." Art in America, March 2004, mentioned in text p. 86, not illus.
- McKenzie, Dr. Janet. "The Art of Philip Guston: 1913–1980." Studio International, March 5, 2004. Online, illus. in color
- Zaller, Robert. "The Abandoned Studio: Philip Guston's Gnostic Testament." Boulevard 20, no. 2-3 (2005): pp. 100–18, mentioned in text p. 113, not illus.
- Smith, Roberta. "One Collection, Many Stories from the Land of Mavericks." The New York Times, May 12, 2006, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Antiques and the Arts Weekly (Newtown, CT). "'Against the Grain' at MoMA Highlights Broida Gift of Contemporary Works." June 2, 2006, illus. in b&w p. 22
- Knight, Christopher. "ART REVIEW; Inspiration Didn't Come from Above; Philip Guston's Great Works Stem from His Admiration for Bad Art." Los Angeles Times, September 15, 2006, Home edition, section Calendar, pp. E1, E20 and E21, mentioned in text p. E20, not illus.
- Melandri, Lisa, and Michael R. Taylor. Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico. Exh. cat. Santa Monica: Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2006, illus. in color Plate 8 p. 45. Listed as being from 1938
- Elderfield, John, and Ann Temkin. Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2006, illus. in color p. 60
- Hohmeyer, Boris. "Die Entdeckung der Wirklichkeit." Art: Das Kunstmagazin March 2007, pp. 26–35, illus. in color p. 34, listed as being from 1938
- Allen, Tom. "The Soothsayer's Recompense." X-TRA 9, no. 4, (2007), mentioned in text, not illus.
- McKenzie, Janet. "The Art of Philip Guston: 1913-1980". In Studio International Yearbook. New York: The Studio Trust, 2007, pp. 60-67, Fig. 4, illus. in color p. 63
- Botelho, Manuel. Guston em contexto: até ao regresso da figura. Lisbon: Livros Vendaval, 2007, illus. in color p. 41
- Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, Plate 1, illus. in color p. 169 and mentioned in text p. 127. Listed as having been done in 1938
- Wilson, Richard. "Brash Attacks." Albany [NY]: Albany Records, 2008. Audio recording, illus. in color on front album cover
- Sandler, Irving. Abstract Expressionism and the American Experience: A Reevaluation. Lenox: Hard Press Editions, 2009, mentioned in text p. 160, not illus.
- Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Philip Guston Roma. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010, mentioned in text p. 88 (Dore Ashton essay), not illus.
- 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, mentioned in text n8 p. 239, not illus.
- Gayford, Martin. "Frida Kahlo Meets Lovers Trotsky, Rivera in Mexico Show." Bloomberg, August 6, 2013. Online, illus. in color
- Mexico: A Revolution in Art 1910 - 1940. Exh. cat. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2013, Illus. in color p. 16 (detail), p. 197, cat. no. 177
- 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. 42, not illus.
- Cole, Thomas B. "The Porch Philip Guston." JAMA, July 12, 2016, mentioned in text p. 132 as "The Gladiators" and from 1938, not illus.
- Abstract Expressionism. Exh. cat. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2016, mentioned in text p. 26, not illus., listed as "The Gladiators" and from 1938
- Evening Standard (London). "Tate 2021 season: Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms and Turner Prize-winner Lubaina Himid exhibition announced." July 8, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, mentioned in text pp. 28, 197 and 290, not illus.
- Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 15 and mentioned in text p. 14
- 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 13 p. 25 and mentioned in text pp. 3, 11, 27 and 185-186
- Seymour, Harry. "Growing up with Philip Guston -- my father." Christie's, February 5, 2021. Online, illus. in color
- Saenger, Peter. "Philip Guston Made Images That Spark Arguments." Wall Street Journal, April 22, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Saenger, Peter. "Images That Spark Arguments." Wall Street Journal, April 23-24, 2022, p. C14, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Marcus, J.S. "Controversially postponed Philip Guston show finally gets going. How has it changed?" Art Newspaper, April 26, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Whyte, Murray. "The MFA recast artist Philip Guston amid a nationwide racial reckoning -- here's the result." Boston Globe, April 28, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Reynolds, Pamela. "After postponement, Philip Guston's work finally arrives at the MFA." WBUR, April 28, 2022. Online, illus. in color
- Plagens, Peter. "Review: 'Philip Guston Now,' at Last." Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2022. Online, illus. in color
- Whyte, Murray. "Guston show gives new entry points--and exits." Boston Globe, May 1, 2022, pp. N1, N2, illus. in color, illus. in color as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text
- The Art Wolf. "Philip Guston, a much-needed retrospective. May 2, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Plagens, Peter. "In Boston, 'Philip Guston Now,' at Last." Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2022, p. A13, illus. in color
- Tucci, Amanda. "Exposição de Philip Guston é finalmente inaugurada em Boston." Arte Que Acontece (São Paulo), May 5, 2022. Online, illus. in color
- The Paper (Shanghai). "推迟两年的加斯顿展开幕，美术馆如何面对争议?" May 6, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Hoffman, A.R. "Guston: A Genius Beyond Controversy." New York Sun, May 7, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Masdearte.com (Madrid). "Mirar a Guston tras el asesinato de Floyd: El Museum of Fine Arts Boston muestra su obra más comprometida." May 10, 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
- Fendrich, Laurie. "Philip Guston's existential ferocity." Two Coats of Paint, June 1, 2022. Online, illus. in color
- Naves, Mario. "Finding Context: After a nearly two-year postponement, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston became the first of four venues to open the Philip Guston Now exhibition." Art & Antiques, June 2022, pp. 34-39, illus. in color and mentioned in text p. 37
- Budick, Ariella. "Cowardice and evil unmasked." Financial Times (London), June 18/19, 2022, section Life & Arts, p. 13, illus. in color
- 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
- Seisdedos, Iker. "Philip Guston: la corrección política puede herir su sensibilidad." El País (Madrid), July 15, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Schwabsky, Barry. "Philip Guston's Philosophy of Doubt." Nation, July 28, 2022. Online, illus. in color
- Campanini, Cristiana. "Troubled Philip Guston." Abitare (Milan), August 3, 2022. Online, illus. in color
- Michelman, Elizabeth. "Philip Guston's True Colors at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." Artscope, August 9, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Greene, Alison de Lima. "Philip Guston: Living in a World Museum." h (Houston), Fall 2022, pp. 26-29, illus. in color p. 26 and mentioned in text pp. 27 and 29
- Wilkin, Karen. "Philip Guston finally." New Criterion, September 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Gray, Chris. "Visual Arts Guide: Museums and galleries feature Gordon Parks, Philip Guston, Selena exhibits for fall." Houston Chronicle, September 15, 2022. Online, illus. in color
- Goodman, Jonathan. "The Guston Foundation: The Maintenance of Philip Guston's Legacy." Brooklyn Rail, October 2022. Online., mentioned in text, not illus.
- Art Daily. "Philip Guston Now, first retrospective in nearly 20 years, opens at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston." October 24, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Houston Style Magazine. "Philip Guston Now Opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Through January 2023." October 28, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Coughlan, Andy. "Then and 'Now': Guston Retrospective Shows Artist Exploring Human Condition." Art of Living, November 18, 2022, pp. C3-C4, mentioned in text p. C3, not illus.
- Coughlan, Andy. "Take a look at this Houston art exhibit through a Southeast Texan's eyes." Beaumont Enterprise, (Texas), November 21, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Fielder, Garland. "Review: 'Philip Guston Now' at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston." Glasstire (Texas), December 6, 2022. Online, illus. in color
- Philip Guston. Lyon: FAGE éditions, 2022, illus. in color p. 7
- Prashad, Vijay. "Socialism Is Not a Utopian Ideal, but an Achievable Necessity: The First Newsletter (2023)." Tricontinental, January 5, 2023. Online, illus. in color
- Wilkin, Karen. "Philip Guston in Boston, Houston, and Washington." Hudson Review, Spring 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Bui, Phong. "Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation." Brooklyn Rail, May 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Bui, Phong. "Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation." Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2023, pp. 48-49, mentioned in text p. 48, not illus.
- Nelson, Saul. "Insomniac Visions." Sidecar (NLR blog), November 24, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Lavrador, Judicaël. "L'art taillé dans le vif de Philip Guston." Beaux Arts Magazine, December 2023, pp. 66-73, illus. in color p. 69
- Khasnis, Giridhar. "'Don't paint to be loved.'" Deccan Herald (Karnataka), February 10, 2024. Online, illus. in color
- Dunbar, Max. "The Daily Struggle: Philip Guston and American Art in the 1930s." PhD diss. Washington University in St. Louis, 2024, illus. in color Fig. 4.10 p. 224
