Catalogue Raisonné
P77.011
Oil on canvas
68 x 116 in.
172.7 x 294.6 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
- Provenance
- Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, 50th Anniversary Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Learsy
- Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Learsy
- Exhibitions
- Hayward Gallery, London, England, "New Painting/New York", May 03, 1979 - June 17, 1979
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980 Travelled to:
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "50th Anniversary Gifts and Promised Gifts", June 03, 1980 - August 31, 1980
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection", June 25, 1980 - September 28, 1980
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Selected Paintings and Sculpture Acquired Since 1978", February 09, 1982 - April 04, 1982
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Minimalism to Expressionism: Painting and Sculpture Since 1965 from the Permanent Collection", June 02, 1983 - December 04, 1983
- La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, "American Art Since 1970: Painting, Sculpture, and Drawings from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York", March 10, 1984 - April 22, 1984 Travelled to:
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Figure as Subject: The Last Decade, Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art", February 13, 1986 - May 28, 1986
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Major Acquisitions Since 1980: Selected Paintings & Sculpture", September 18, 1986 - November 30, 1986
- Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, "Figure as Subject: The Revival of Figuration Since 1975", April 06, 1988 - June 12, 1988 Travelled to:
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Art in Place: Fifteen Years of Acquisitions", July 28, 1989 - October 29, 1989
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "20th-Century American Art: Highlights of the Permanent Collection", October 24, 1989 - February 03, 1991
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Figurative Art in the Permanent Collection", September 09, 1992 - November 29, 1992
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "An American Story", March 20, 1996 - September 29, 1996
- Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, "Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art II", January 31, 1997 - May 04, 1997
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3 - American Realities", July 11, 1997 - October 05, 1997
- Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, "Shifting Visions: O'Keefe, Guston, Richter", October 10, 1998 - January 24, 1999
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "The American Century, Art & Culture 1900 - 2000, Part II 1950 - 2000", September 26, 1999 - February 13, 2000
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "De Kooning to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection", October 10, 2002 - March 02, 2003
- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003 Travelled to:
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Full House: Views of the Whitney's Collection at 75", June 29, 2006 - September 03, 2006
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Collecting Biennials", January 16, 2010 - November 28, 2010
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "America is Hard to See", May 01, 2015 - September 27, 2015
- Bibliography
- New Painting/New York. Exh. cat. London: Hayward Gallery, 1979, unnumbered in cat., not illus.
- Danville (CA) Valley Pioneer. "Philip Guston Dead at 67." June 18, 1980, illus.
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 79, illus. in color plate 68 p. 110
- Hills, Patricia, and Roberta K. Tarbell. The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980, illus. in b&w Fig. 160 p. 151 (described pp. 150-151)
- Perreault, John. "Guston Winds." SoHo Weekly News, July 8, 1981, p. 51, mentioned in text, not illus.
- American Art Since 1970: Painting, Sculpture, and Drawings from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984, illus. in b&w p. 57 and described in text p. 13
- Figure as Subject: The Last Decade. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1986, illus. in b&w (unpaginated)
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 100 pp. 96-97
- Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions 1973–1986. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1986, illus. in b&w and listed p. 45
- Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in text pp. 88 and 91, not illus.
- Feld, Ross. "Guston in Time." Arts Magazine, November 1988, pp. 40-45, illus. in color p. 40
- de Barañano, Kosme Maria. Philip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo. Exh. cat. Bilbao: Sala Rekalde, 1993, illus. in color p. 39 (Kosme de Baranano essay)
- Brighton, Andrew, Nicholas Serota, Sandy Nairne, and Adam D. Weinberg. Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3—American Realities. Exh. cat. Essays by Andrew Brighton and Peter Wollen. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1997, listed p. 108
- Cernuschi, Claude. "Not an Illustration but the Equivalent": A Cognitive Approach to Abstract Expressionism. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997, illus. in b&w p. 46
- Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3: American Realities. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1997, illus. in color p. 80
- DeLong, Lea Rosson. Shifting Visions O'Keeffe Guston Richter. Exh. cat. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1998, illus. in color p. 48 and mentioned in text p. 49
- The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900–2000. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2000, illus. in color
- Anfam, David. "Telling Tales: Philip Guston in Retrospect." Artforum International, May 2003, pp. 132–39, 192, mentioned in text p. 192, not illus.
- 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. D10, not illus.
- Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 112, unpaginated
- Lambirth, Andrew. "Apocalyptic Vision." Spectator (London), January 24, 2004, p. 36, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Philip Guston: Odd Man Out. BBC Four, January 28, 2004. Television, detail 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. 114, not illus.
- Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, Plate 38, illus. in color p. 187 and mentioned in text pp. 73 and 148
- Salle, David. How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art. New York: W. W. Norton, 2016, illus. in b&w p. 138
- Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text pp. 49 and 74, not illus.
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 189 illus. in color p. 181 and mentioned in text pp. 180 and 197
