Catalogue Raisonné

D4002

Untitled (Study for Maintaining America's Skills), 1939
Charcoal, chalk, and pencil
18¾ x 24 in.
47.6 x 61.0 cm
Provenance
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Promised Gift of Michael A. Rubenstein, from the collection of Michael A. and Juliet van Vliet Rubenstein
Collection of Juliet and Michael A. Rubenstein
Private Collection
Seymour Fogel
Exhibitions
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, "Dawn of a New Day New York World's Fair, 1939/40", June 21, 1980 - November 30, 1980
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "The Drawings of Philip Guston", September 07, 1988 - November 01, 1988  Travelled to:
The Met Breuer, New York, NY, "From Géricault to Rockburne: Selections from the Michael and Juliet Rubenstein Gift", January 29, 2020 - March 12, 2020
Bibliography
Dabrowski, Magdalena. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988, cat. no. 6, illus. in b&w p. 55 and mentioned in text p. 16
Dabrowski, Magdalena. Dibuixos Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Barcelona: Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, 1989, cat. no. 6 illus. in b&w p. 75, listed as "Maintaining America's Skills (estudi)"
Philip Guston: In Context. Exh. cat. Oxford: The Museum of Modern Art Oxford, 1989, cat. no. 6, illus. (no page #), listed as being from 1939
Philip Guston, Opere Su Carta 1933–1980. Exh. cat. Milan: Electa, 1989, cat. no. 4, illus. in b&w p. 60