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P78.021

Painter's Forms II, 1978
Oil on canvas
75 x 108 in.
190.5 x 274.3 cm
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "PAINTER'S FORMS II" (underlined) 1978/ OIL ON CANVAS 75 x 108 (underlined)
Provenance
Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Museum purchase, The Friends of Art Endowment Fund
Exhibitions
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980  Travelled to:
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", July 20, 1980 - September 09, 1980
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", November 12, 1980 - January 11, 1981
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", February 25, 1981 - April 26, 1981
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", June 24, 1981 - September 13, 1981
Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, "Maelstrom: Contemporary Images of Violence", April 10, 1986 - June 20, 1986
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989  Travelled to:
Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", May 25, 1989 - July 16, 1989
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", September 09, 1989 - October 22, 1989
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", November 19, 1989 - January 14, 1990
McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Major Paintings from the Seventies", October 05, 1996 - November 09, 1996 
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth", December 14, 2002 - March 09, 2003
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003  Travelled to:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston Retrospective", June 28, 2003 - September 27, 2003
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Retrospective", October 27, 2003 - January 04, 2004
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, "The Art of Philip Guston: 1913-1980", January 24, 2004 - April 12, 2004
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, "Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and their Influences", June 29, 2007 - September 23, 2007
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "The Collection and Then Some", November 07, 2008 - May 31, 2009
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection and Then Some, phase II", January 22, 2009 - June 15, 2009
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Ten Years", November 22, 2012 - August 12, 2013
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Highlights from the Permanent Collection", August 21, 2016 - February 05, 2017
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy, "Philip Guston and the Poets", May 10, 2017 - September 03, 2017 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022  Travelled to:
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "Philip Guston Now", October 23, 2022 - January 15, 2023
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston Now", March 02, 2023 - August 27, 2023
Tate Modern, London, England, "Philip Guston", October 05, 2023 - February 25, 2024
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Highlights from the Permanent Collection", May 11, 2024 - July 30, 2024
Bibliography
Storr, Robert. "Philip Guston: Un Nouvelle Figuration." Art Press, Suisse 9, 1980, p. 9
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 86, illus. in b&w plate 75 p. 117
Gettinger, Pamela. Maelstrom: Contemporary Images of Violence. Exh. cat. Hempstead: Hofstra University, 1986, illus. in cat. p. 17
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in b&w no. 63 p. 65 and mentioned in text pp. 64 and 66
Storr, Robert. "Philip Guston: Une Nouvelle Figuration." Art Press, October 1987, illus. p. 9
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, illus. in color no. 52 (following p. 146) and mentioned in text p. 159
Gallego, Julian. "El gusto de Guston." ABC (Madrid), March 2, 1989, mentioned in text, not illus.
Cambio 16 (Madrid)."El caso Guston." April 7, 1989, section De Galerias, illus.
Costa, Jordi. "Tras su coleccion de dibujos, llega la obra pictorica de Philip Guston a la Virreina." ABC (Madrid), May 26, 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. 62, illus. in color p. 138
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. 1988. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1990, illus. in b&w no. 52 (following p. 146) and mentioned in text p. 159
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, London: Thames and Hudson, 1991, illus. in b&w no. 52 (following p. 146) and mentioned in text p. 159
Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text pp. 87-88, not illus.
Kimmelman, Michael. "Philip Guston: Paintings from the 70s." The New York Times, October 11, 1996, p. C32, mentioned in text, not illus.
Levin, Kim. "Art Short List: Philip Guston." Village Voice, November 12, 1996, illus. in b&w
Servetar, Stuart. "Servetar Selects." Artnet Magazine, November 14, 1996. Online, illus. in color
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, illus. in b&w no. 52 (following p. 146) and mentioned in text p. 159
Auping, Michael, Andrea Karnes, and Mark Thistlethwaite. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 110. Exh. cat. London: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2002. In association with Third Millennium Information, illus. in color p. 78, illus. in b&w p. 242 and mentioned in text p. 77
Robertson, Tracee. "Michael Roch: Cumulous + Kirk Hayes: Recent Paintings." Art Lies (Houston), Fall 2003, p. 59, mentioned in text, not illus.
Rainbird, Sean, ed.. Max Beckmann. Exh. cat. London: Tate Publishing, 2003, mentioned in text pp. 41 and 42, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 121, unpaginated
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 pp. 111 and 112, not illus.
At the Modern, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. "Acquisitions." Summer 2005, pp. 4–5, mentioned in text p. 4, not illus.
Posnock, Ross. Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity. Princeton: Princeton University, 2006, mentioned in text p. 240, not illus.
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, detail illus. in color pp. 110-111 and mentioned in text pp. 88-89 and 102
Cole-Cunningham, Ragan, ed. Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and Their Influences. Exh. cat. Essay by Thomas Lawson. Virginia Beach: Contemporary Art Center, Virginia, 2007, illus. in color
Derges, Susan. Review of What is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade, by Christopher Bucklow, Artesian 3 (2011), illus. in color pg. 39
Phillips, Sam. ...isms: Understanding Modern Art. New York: Universe, 2012, illus. in color pp. 120-121
Urfalino, Mathilde. "Les poem-pictures de Philip Guston." octopusnotes, December 2013, illus. in b&w fig. 50 p. 51
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. 92, not illus.
Eaton, William. "Guston, Schapiro, Rosenberg,...Dialogue." Zeteo Journal, July 13, 2016. Online, illus. in color in endnotes and mentioned in endnotes
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Munich: Sieveking Verlag; Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. no. 94, illus. in color p. 221 and mentioned in text p. 220
Gieskes, Mette. "I is an Other: Philip Guston's Imagined Incarnations of God and Klansmen." In Example or Alter Ego? Aspects of the Portrait Historie in Western Art from Antiquity to the Present. Edited by Volker Manuth, Rudie van Leeuwen, and Jos Koldeweij. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016, mentioned in text p. 292, not illus.
Lucarelli, Niccolo. "Dal Rinascimento a Bukowski. Philip Guston pittore-poeta a Venezia." ArtsLife (Milan), May 11, 2017. Online, illus. in color
ARTnews. "From the Archives: Philip Guston on Piero della Francesca, in 1965." May 12, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Phillips, Sam. "10 to See at the Venice Biennale." RA magazine, May 12, 2017. Online, illus. in color
"Philip Guston and the Poets at Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia, May 10–September 3, 2017." Arts Summary. Blog. May 13, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Herriman, Kat. "An Iconic American Painter, Re-examined Through Poetry." The New York Times Style Magazine, May 16, 2017. Online, illus. in related slideshow attached to article
Buck, Louisa. "Venice Biennale 2017 Highlights: What to See at the Giardini, National Pavilions and Beyond." Telegraph (London), May 19, 2017. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Art It. "Philip Guston and the Poets @ Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia." May 25, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Nastro, Santa and Marco Enrico Giacomelli. "Philip Guston Un Grande Artista a Venezia." Artribune (Rome), June 2017, pp. 56–58, illus. in color p. 56
Sirlin, Deanna. "Philip Guston: A Painter and His Muses." Art Section (Atlanta), June 2017. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Ure-Smith, Jane. "Shape-Shifter: The Careers of Philip Guston." Economist, June 2, 2017. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Daydé, Emmanuel. "Philip Guston: Affreux, Sale et Géant." Art Absolument (Paris), July 2017, pp. 58–61, illus. in color p. 61
Stremmel, Kerstin. "Seine Radikalität war schuld." Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich), July 7, 2017. Online, illus. in color as part of a slideshow
KAWS：始于终点. Exh. cat. Fort Worth: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2017
, Fig. 9, illus. in color p. 73 (Michael Auping essay)
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: Un ritratto intimo di Philip Guston. Monza: Johan & Levi, 2017, illus. in color fig. 38 (following p. 224) and mentioned in text p. 183
KAWS: Where the End Starts. Exh. cat. Fort Worth: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2017, Fig. 9, illus. in color p. 73 (Michael Auping essay)
Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color p. 83
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Collection Highlights. Fort Worth: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2019, illus. in color p. 140 and mentioned in text p. 141
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text p. 50, not illus.
Caliandro, Christian. "L'arte rotta (VII). Imprevisto e libertà secondo gli artisti." Artribune (Rome), February 24, 2020. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Wolf, Bryan J. "Between the Lines: Philip Guston, the Holocaust, and 'Bad Painting.'" American Art, Spring 2020, pp. 50-85, fig. 16 illus. in color p. 68 and mentioned in text as "Painter's Form II" p. 69
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 166 p. 162 and mentioned in text pp. 3, 127 and 163
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 96 and mentioned in text p. 93
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 214 illus. in color p. 202 and mentioned in text p. 152
Storr, Robert. Writings on Art: 1980-2005. London: HENI, 2020, mentioned in text pp. 509 and 510, not illus.
Plagens, Peter. "Review: 'Philip Guston Now,' at Last." Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Plagens, Peter. "In Boston, 'Philip Guston Now,' at Last." Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2022, p. A13, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Hoffman, A.R. "Guston: A Genius Beyond Controversy." New York Sun, May 7, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Schwartz, Penny. "After 2-year delay, Philip Guston art exhibit explores his Jewish identity — under cloud of controversy." Jewish Telegraphic Agency, May 11, 2022. Online
, illus. in color but listed incorrectly as "The Black Sea"
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 p. 34 and mentioned in text p. 39
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
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Garelick, Jon. "For Philip Guston, the political was personal." Boston Globe, September 2, 2022, section Opinion. Online.
, mentioned in text, not illus.
Garelick, Jon. "For Philip Guston, the political was personal." Boston Globe, September 2, 2022, section Opinion. Print, mentioned in text, not illus.
González, Rosa Boshier. "Philip Guston Now." Brooklyn Rail, December 2022-January 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
González, Rosa Boshier. "Philip Guston." Brooklyn Rail, December/January 2022/23, pp. 57-58, mentioned in text p. 58, not illus.
Fielder, Garland. "Review: 'Philip Guston Now' at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston." Glasstire (Texas), December 6, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Philip Guston. Lyon: FAGE éditions, 2022, illus. in color p. 63
Bui, Phong. "Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation." Brooklyn Rail, May 2023. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Schwabsky, Barry. "Philip Guston Now." Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2023. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Tate Etc. "Transformations on a Canvas." Issue 59, Autumn 2023, pp. 72-83, illus. in color pp. 12 and 77 and mentioned in text p. 76
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.
Gascoigne, Laura. "How Philip Guston became a hero to a new generation of figurative painters." Spectator (London), October 21, 2023. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Nelson, Saul. "Insomniac Visions." Sidecar (NLR blog), November 24, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2023, illus. no. 94, illus. in color p. 221 and mentioned in text p. 220
Duponchelle, Valérie. "Philip Guston, le peintre qui met du mouvement dans l'abstraction." Le Figaro (Paris), January 18, 2024, mentioned in text, not illus.