Catalogue Raisonné
D470007
Ink on paper
15 x 22⅛ in.
38.1 x 56.2 cm
Signed and dated front lower right: Philip Guston 1947-48
- Provenance
- Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Exhibitions
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962 Travelled to:
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Drawings 1938-1972", July 11, 1973 - September 04, 1973
- David McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Drawings 1947-1977", October 03, 1978 - November 04, 1978
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980 Travelled to:
- Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, IL, "Twentieth-Century American Drawings: The Figure in Context", April 29, 1984 - June 17, 1984 Travelled to:
- Skidmore College, Schick Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY, "Philip Guston: Early and Late Works", October 15, 1987 - November 15, 1987
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "The Drawings of Philip Guston", September 07, 1988 - November 01, 1988 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:
- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003 Travelled to:
- Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Philip Guston: Works on Paper", February 28, 2007 - May 20, 2007 Travelled to:
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston Now", March 02, 2023 - August 27, 2023
- Bibliography
- Alloway, Lawrence. "Notes on Guston." Art Journal, Fall 1962, pp. 8–11, Fig. 1, illus. in b&w p. 8, listed as "The Tormentors" and mentioned in text p. 9
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, illus. in b&w p. 19, listed as "Drawing No. 1 (Tormentors) 1947"
- Nordland, Gerald. "Review at Mid-Life." Frontier, July 1963, pp. 23–25, mentioned in text p. 24, not illus.
- Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 70
- Drogseth, Dennis. "Philip Guston drawings: 'Some artists have the capacity for imaginative projection.'" Woodstock Times, October 26, 1978, pp. 8–9, mentioned in text p. 8, not illus.
- Ricard, Rene. "Philip Guston at David McKee." Art in America, November–December 1978, p. 157, mentioned in text as "the 1947 studies for Tormentors," not illus.
- Philip Guston: Drawings 1947–1977. Exh. cat. New York: David McKee Gallery, 1978, cat. no. 2, illus. in b&w, listed as "Drawing No. 1 (Tormentors) 1947"
- Buonagurio, Edgar. "Philip Guston." Arts Magazine, February 1979, p. 31, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Schipper, Merle. "Kline and Guston: Phases of Drawing." Artweek, August 11, 1979, pp. 1, 16, mentioned in text p. 16, not illus., listed as "Study for Tormentors I, 1947-48"
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 12, illus. in b&w plate 14 p. 59, listed as "Drawing No. 1 (Tormentors), 1947"
- Storr, Robert. "Notes on Philip Guston (1913–1980)." Harvard Advocate (1981): pp. 4–13, illus. p. 6
- Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, illus. in b&w p. 16
- Philip Guston: Early and Late Works. Exh. cat. Saratoga Springs: Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, 1987, cat. no. 3-D, illus. in b&w (no page #)
- Ashton, Dore. "Impassioned Quest." Art International, Winter 1988, pp.101–3, illus. p. 103
- Welish, Marjorie. "I Confess: The Drawings of Philip Guston." Arts Magazine, November 1988, pp. 46–50, mentioned in text p. 47, not illus.
- Kies, Emily Bardack. "The Drawings of Philip Guston." The Museum of Modern Art. Gallery guide. New York, 1988, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text, no page #
- Dabrowski, Magdalena. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988, cat. no. 10, illus. in b&w p. 59, listed as "Drawing for Tormentors" and mentioned in text pp. 18, 19 and 20
- Brach, Paul. "An Act of Salvation." Art in America, January 1989, pp. 130–35, illus. p. 132 and mentioned in text p. 132 and p. 134
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D'Or. "Philip Guston." May 1989, mentioned in text, not illus., listed as "Tormentos" - Philip Guston, Opere Su Carta 1933–1980. Exh. cat. Milan: Electa, 1989, cat. no. 7, illus. in b&w p. 62
- Dabrowski, Magdalena. Dibuixos Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Barcelona: Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, 1989, cat. no. 10 illus. in b&w p. 79
- 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, illus. in b&w p. 21, no. 5 (Robert Storr essay)
- Kies, Emily Bardack. "Philip Guston." Museum Overholland. Exh. brochure. 1989, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text, no page #
- Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 70
- de Barañano, Kosme Maria. Philip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo. Exh. cat. Bilbao: Sala Rekalde, 1993, illus. in b&w p. 62 (Dore Ashton essay)
- Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties. Exh. cat. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1997, Drawings cat. no. 20, illus. in b&w p. 50
- Welish, Marjorie. "The Art of Philip Guston." In Signifying Art: Essays on Art After 1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, mentioned in text p. 150, not illus.
- Weber, Joanna, Harry Cooper, and Laura Greengold. Philip Guston A New Alphabet: The Late Transition. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2000, illus. in b&w, Fig. 25, p. 57
- Cooper, Harry. "Recognizing Guston (In Four Slips)." October 99 (2002): pp. 96–129, illus. in b&w p. 126 and mentioned in text p. 127
- Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 17, unpaginated (but would be p. 115), listed as "Drawing for Tormentors (Drawing No. 1)" and mentioned in text p. 34, listed as "Drawing for Tormentors (Drawing No. 1)"
- Schreier, Christoph, Poul Erik Tøjner, Isabel Dervaux, and Michael Semff. Philip Guston: Works on Paper. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007, cat. no. 3, illus. in color p. 29 and fig. 3, illus. in color p. 47 (Christoph Schreier essay), also mentioned in text p. 47 (Christoph Schreier essay)
- Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Philip Guston Roma. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010, mentioned in text p. 91 (Michael Semff essay), not illus.
- Wilkin, Karen. "Philip Guston: Full Circle." The Hopkins Review 7, no. 4 (2014): pp. 498–515, illus. in b&w p. 507
- 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 26 p. 48 and mentioned in text p. 43
