Catalogue Raisonné
D3902
Colored pencil and ink on paper
15 x 24¾ in.
38.1 x 62.9 cm
Signed and dated front lower right: PHILLIP/GUSTON 1939/PORTION OF DESIGN FOR MURAL ON HOUSING
- Provenance
- Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Exhibitions
- New York World's Fair, New York, NY, "American Art Today", 1939
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980 Travelled to:
- Historical Society of Woodstock, Woodstock, NY, "Woodstock Artists and the Federal Art Projects of the WPA Era", August 24, 1985 - October 05, 1985
- 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:
- Washburn Gallery, New York, NY, "The WPA: Save the NEA", September 14, 2017 - October 28, 2017
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925–1945", February 17, 2020 - January 31, 2021
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022 Travelled to:
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s", September 06, 2023 - December 10, 2023
- Bibliography
- Art Digest: The News and Opinion of the Art World. "These Painters & Sculptors Passed the Jury." June 1, 1939, N. Y. World's Fair Special Number edition, pp. 32–33, 64, Guston listed p. 32, not illus., work titled "The City Slum"
- American Art Today. New York: National Art Society, 1939, cat. no. 203, illus. in b&w p. 84, listed as "The City Slum"
- Cone, Michèle. The Roots & Routes of Art in the 20th Century. New York: Horizon Press, 1975, mentioned in text p. 173 as "City Slum", not illus.
- Toucatt, Ralph. "Metamorphosis: The Art of Philip Guston." The Threepenny Review, Fall 1980, p. 24, mentioned in text, not illus., listed as "Portion of Design for Mural on Housing"
- Rickey, Carrie. "Gust, Gusto, Guston." Artforum, October 1980, pp. 32–39, illus. in b&w p. 36
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 5, illus. in b&w plate 7 p. 54
- Grant, Daniel. "Philip Guston, Rebel Painter in Retrospect." Newsday, July 12, 1981, section Part II, pp. 17-18, illus. in b&w p. 17
- Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, illus. in b&w p. 59
- Woodstock Artists and the Federal Art Projects of the WPA Era. Exh. cat. Woodstock: Historical Society of Woodstock, 1985, not illus. (no page #)
- Wolff, Theodore F. "Philip Guston's Wide-Ranging 50-Year Career in Art. Major Exhibition Traces Significant Shifts in Interest." Christian Science Monitor, September 26, 1988, p. 20, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Schjeldahl, Peter. "Daddy Dearest." 7 Days, September 28, 1988, pp. 51-52, illus. in b&w p. 52 as part of an installation photo
- Dabrowski, Magdalena. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988, cat. no. 4 illus. in color p. 53, listed as "Study for Queensbridge Housing Project Mural" and mentioned in text pp. 16, 17, 18 and 37
- Kies, Emily Bardack. "The Drawings of Philip Guston." The Museum of Modern Art. Gallery guide. New York, 1988, illus. in b&w, no page #
- Brach, Paul. "An Act of Salvation." Art in America, January 1989, pp. 130–35, illus. p. 132 and mentioned in text p. 134
- Kaal, Ron. "Twee Kanten Van Hetzelfde Gezicht: Portret van Philip Guston, de schilder van een steenklomp met een groot cyclopisch oog en een samenleving die gereduceerd is tot afval." HP, January 21, 1989, pp. 45–47, mentioned in text p. 45, not illus.
- Marzo, Jorge Luis. "Guston, un artista entre la figuracion y la abstraccion." La Vanguardia (Barcelona), March 26, 1989, illus.
- Berengueras, Nuria. "Los dibujos de Philip Guston, en Barcelona." Tiempo (Madrid), March 27, 1989, illus.
- Romagosa, Gemma. "Philip Guston: paradigma del expresionismo abstracto." Architectural Digest, April 1989, pp. 16, 18, illus. p. 16
- Casa Viva. "Philip Guston." April 1989, illus.
- Feaver, William. "Have His KKK and Eat It." Observer (London), June 25, 1989, p. 41, mentioned in text as "'portion of design for mural on housing' at Queensbridge, not illus.
- Cara. "Figuratively Speaking." July/August 1989, p. 8, illus. in color
- Philip Guston, Opere Su Carta 1933–1980. Exh. cat. Milan: Electa, 1989, cat. no. 3, illus. in color p. 58
- Kies, Emily Bardack. "Philip Guston." Museum Overholland. Exh. brochure. 1989, illus. in b&w, no page #
- Dabrowski, Magdalena. Dibuixos Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Barcelona: Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, 1989, cat. no. 4 illus. in color p. 73
- Ottinger, Didier. Philip Guston (1913–1980) Oeuvres Sur Papier 1975–1980. Exh. cat. Les Sables d'Olonne: Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix des Sables d'Olonne, France, 1995, illus. in color no page # (not in exhibition)
- 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 as "Portion of Design for Mural on Housing" p. 1F, not illus.
- Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties. Exh. cat. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1997, Drawings cat. no. 1, illus. in color p. 38
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in b&w p. 326 as part of a photo of Guston's studio
- Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2020., plate 55 illus. in color p. 102
- 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 11 p. 24 and mentioned in text pp. 11, 185, and 225
- 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
