Catalogue Raisonné

RETURN TO LIST
PREV | NEXT

P44.003

Sanctuary, 1944
Oil on canvas
22⅛ x 35⅞ in.
56.2 x 91.1 cm
Signed and dated front lower right: Philip Guston/'44
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
Midtown Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", January 15, 1945 - February 10, 1945 
Iowa Memorial Union and Iowa Art Building, Iowa City, IA, "1st Summer Exhibition of Contemporary Art", June 24, 1945 - July 31, 1945
Seventeenth Regiment Armory, New York, NY, "Critics Choice of the Contemporary Arts & Antiques Show", September 24, 1945 - September 30, 1945
Architectural League, New York, NY, "The Rotating Annual Selection of Twelve Paintings 1946 - 1947", October 08, 1946 - October 15, 1946 Travelled to:
Marshall Field & Co. galleries, Chicago, IL, "The Rotating Annual Selection of Twelve Paintings 1946 - 1947", October 23, 1946 - November 02, 1946
City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, "The Rotating Annual Selection of Twelve Paintings 1946 - 1947", February 19, 1947 - March 20, 1947
Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, OH, "The Rotating Annual Selection of Twelve Paintings 1946 - 1947", April 1947
University Galleries, University of Nebraska, Morrill Hall, Lincoln, NE, "The Rotating Annual Selection of Twelve Paintings 1946 - 1947", June 1947
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX, "The Rotating Annual Selection of Twelve Paintings 1946 - 1947", September 1947
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY, "Philip Guston", November 02, 1947 - December 01, 1947 
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, "Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members, Recipients of Academy and Institute Honors and Pictures Purchased from the Childe Hassam Fund", May 22, 1948 - June 30, 1948
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, "Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting", February 27, 1949 - April 03, 1949
University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, "Philip Guston", April 10, 1950 - May 12, 1950 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962  Travelled to:
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, "Philip Guston", September 20, 1962 - October 15, 1962
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston", January 16, 1963 - February 17, 1963
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, "Philip Guston", March 01, 1963 - March 24, 1963
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, "Philip Guston", May 22, 1963 - June 30, 1963
Skidmore College, Schick Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY, "Philip Guston: Early and Late Works", October 15, 1987 - November 15, 1987 
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties", January 25, 1997 - March 16, 1997  Travelled to:
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties", April 09, 1997 - June 29, 1997
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY, "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties", November 15, 1997 - January 04, 1998
Bibliography
Pictures on Exhibit. "Heard at the Galleries." January 1945, pp. 21, 26, illus. in b&w p. 26
Breuning, Margaret. "Philip Guston Impresses in New York Debut." Art Digest, January 15, 1945, p. 12, mentioned in text, not illus.
Genauer, Emily. "Solo by Guston." New York World-Telegram, January 20, 1945, p. 9, mentioned in text, not illus.
F[rost], R[osamund]. "Guston: Meaning out of Monumentality." ARTnews, February 1, 1945, p. 24, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
Iowa City Press-Citizen. "The Exhibition At-A-Glance." June 23, 1945, mentioned in text, not illus.
Art Digest. "New York Critics Pick Exhibits for Armory Show--Prepare to Duck." September 15, 1945, pp. 6-7, mentioned in text p. 6, not illus.
ARTnews. "Critics Choice at the Armory Show." October 1, 1945, pp. 19, 25–26, mentioned in text p. 26, not illus., chosen by Charles Offin
New York Sun. "One-man Shows of Interest." 1945, illus. in b&w
1st Summer Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Exh. cat. Iowa City: State University of Iowa, 1945, cat. no. 53, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Midtown Galleries, 1945, cat. no. 1, not illus.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Art Room Books of Interest. Flyer. Carnegie Institute, 1945, mentioned in text, not illus.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Guggenheim Awards for Botanist, Artist." April 17, 1947, mentioned in text, not illus.
Devree, Howard. "Reich Art Treasures: Metropolitan Exhibition—Other Events." The New York Times, May 23, 1948, p. 8X, mentioned in text, not illus.
Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members Recipients of Academy and Institute Honors and Pictures Purchased from the Childe Hassam Fund. Exh. cat. New York: American Academy of Arts and Letters; National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1948, cat. no. 5 of the Guston works, not illus.
Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. Exh. cat. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1949, cat. no. 48, illus. in b&w Plate 15
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Minneapolis: University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1950, cat. no. 8, illus. in b&w no page #
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 2, illus. in b&w p. 47
Russell, John. "The World of Art: Beyond Nature." Sunday Times (London), January 20, 1963, mentioned in text, not illus.
Lynton, Norbert. "London Letter." Art International, February 25, 1963, pp. 68–71, mentioned in text p. 69, not illus.
Nordland, Gerald. "Review at Mid-Life." Frontier, July 1963, pp. 23–25, mentioned in text p. 23, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 50
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, Fig. 5, illus. in b&w p. 17
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, mentioned in text p. 10, not illus.
Philip Guston: Early and Late Works. Exh. cat. Saratoga Springs: Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, 1987, cat. no. 1-P, illus. in b&w (no page #)
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, illus. in b&w no. 67 (following p. 178) and mentioned in text pp. 37 and 237-238
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. 1988. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1990, illus. in b&w no. 67 (following p. 178) and mentioned in text pp. 37 and 237-238
Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 50
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, London: Thames and Hudson, 1991, illus. in b&w no. 67 (following p. 178) and mentioned in text pp. 37 and 237
Shapiro, Michael Edward. "Philip Guston: The War Years." Print Collector's Newsletter, September–October 1994, mentioned in text p. 128, not illus.
Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text p. 20, not illus.
Day, Jeffrey. "Greenville Takes the Lead with Guston and Mann Exhibits." The State (Columbia, SC), May 11, 1997, section Tempo, pp. F1, F3, illus. p. F3
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. 7, illus. in color p. 27
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. Reprint, Boston: Da Capo Press, 1997.
, illus. in b&w no. 67 (following p. 178) and mentioned in text pp. 37 and 237-238
DeLong, Lea Rosson. Shifting Visions O'Keeffe Guston Richter. Exh. cat. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1998, mentioned in text p. 45, not illus.
Anfam, David. "Telling Tales: Philip Guston in Retrospect." Artforum International, May 2003, pp. 132–39, 192, mentioned in text p. 134, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color, Figure 2, p. 31, mentioned in text p. 30
Rubinstein, Raphael. "Philip Guston: Some Thoughts." Art in America, March 2004, mentioned in text pp. 86 and 88, not illus.
Botelho, Manuel. Guston em contexto: até ao regresso da figura. Lisbon: Livros Vendaval, 2007, illus. in color p. 52
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, mentioned in text pp. 151 and 213-214, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Munich: Sieveking Verlag; Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. no. 30, illus. in color p. 58 and mentioned in text pp. 59 and 317
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: Un ritratto intimo di Philip Guston. Monza: Johan & Levi, 2017, illus. in color fig. 12 (following p. 64) and mentioned in text pp. 50 and 255
Mayer, Musa. Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971. Exh. cat. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2019, illus. in color p. 160
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 23 and mentioned in text p. 14
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 20 illus. in color and mentioned in text p. 33 and illus. in b&w p. 292 as part of a photo of Guston
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 Fig. 4 (Chronology) p. 227 and mentioned in text p. 226
Guston, Philip. I Paint What I Want To See. Penguin Classics, 2022, mentioned in text p. 81, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2023, illus. no. 30, illus. in color p. 58 and mentioned in text pp. 59 and 317
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, mentioned in text p. 32, not illus.