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P51.003

White Painting I, 1951
Oil on canvas
57⅞ x 61⅞ in.
147.0 x 157.2 cm
Unsigned, undated
Provenance
Collection SFMOMA, T. B. Walker Foundation Fund purchase
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Peridot Gallery, New York, NY, "Paintings 1948-1951 by Philip Guston", January 02, 1952 - January 26, 1952 
University Galleries, University of Nebraska, Morrill Hall, Lincoln, NE, "Nebraska Art Association Sixty-Second Annual Exhibition", March 02, 1952 - March 30, 1952
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962  Travelled to:
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, "Philip Guston", September 20, 1962 - October 15, 1962
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston", January 16, 1963 - February 17, 1963
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, "Philip Guston", March 01, 1963 - March 24, 1963
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, "Philip Guston", May 22, 1963 - June 30, 1963
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, "New York School The First Generation Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s", June 18, 1965 - August 01, 1965
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, "[Unknown Title]", May 22, 1971 - August 1971
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Philip Guston: New Works in San Francisco, December 21, 1978 - January 21, 1979 
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
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties", January 25, 1997 - March 16, 1997  Travelled to:
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties", April 09, 1997 - June 29, 1997
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY, "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties", November 15, 1997 - January 04, 1998
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", September 02, 1999 - November 01, 1999  Travelled to:
Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", February 16, 2000 - April 24, 2000
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, "Philip Guston: Paintings of Four Decades", May 12, 2000 - July 30, 2000
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, "Philip Guston Peintures 1947 - 1979", September 13, 2000 - December 04, 2000
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
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Matisse and Beyond: The Painting and Sculpture Collection", April 16, 2004 - September 02, 2009
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "75 Years of Looking Forward: Focus on Artists", September 29, 2009 - February 23, 2011
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Selected Histories: 20th-Century Art from the SFMOMA Collection", September 05, 2012 - June 02, 2013
Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, "Nothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 1947-1962", February 02, 2017 - April 01, 2017
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 
Bibliography
S[eckler], D[orothy]. "Reviews and Previews." ARTnews, January 1952, p. 44, illus. in b&w
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Ashton, Dore. Philip Guston. New York: Grove, 1960, illus. in b&w (unpaginated), listed as "White Painting" and dated 1950
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Moritz, Charles, ed. Current Biography, February 1971, pp. 10-13, mentioned in text p. 12, not illus.
Iowa City Press-Citizen. "Painting by Guston at Museum." May 24, 1971, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 102, mentioned in text p. 99
Stoffley-Santiago, Mary. "Philip Guston—A Thorough Preview." Artweek, January 13, 1979, pp. 1, 16, mentioned in text p. 16, not illus.
Stevens, Mark. "An Interview with Philip Guston." New Republic, March 1980, illus. p. 60, reference p. 61
Butterfield, Jan. "A Very Anxious Fix: Philip Guston." Images & Issues, Summer 1980, pp. 30–35, mentioned in text p. 35 as "White Painting #1", not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 19, illus. in b&w plate 19 p. 63 and mentioned in text p. 18
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King, Mary. "The Guston Retrospective: A 'Grim Mirror to Our Time.'" St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 1, 1981, section Music, the Arts, p. 5G, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Grant, Daniel. "Philip Guston, Rebel Painter in Retrospect." Newsday, July 12, 1981, section Part II, pp. 17-18, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text p. 17
Hill, Andrea. "No Picnic: Philip Guston at the Whitney." Artscribe, August 1981, pp. 19–21, mentioned in text p. 21, not illus.
Philip Guston: Sus Ultimos Anos. Exh. cat. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1981, illus. in b&w fig. 2 p. 4
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, illus. in b&w p. 11 and mentioned in text p. 10
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in b&w no. 21 p. 26 no. 21 and mentioned in text pp. 25 and 34-35
Dabrowski, Magdalena. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988, illus. in b&w Fig. 9 p. 22 and mentioned in text p. 22
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, illus. in b&w no. 29 (following p. 50) and mentioned in text p. 49
Llorca, Pablo. "Philip Guston: Un pintor muy visceral." Dunia, July 1989, pp. 108–10, mentioned in text p. 110, 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, illus. in b&w p. 24, no. 9 (Robert Storr essay)
Dabrowski, Magdalena. Dibuixos Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Barcelona: Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, 1989, illus. in b&w fig. 9 p. 34
Philip Guston, Opere Su Carta 1933–1980. Exh. cat. Milan: Electa, 1989, illus. in b&w fig. 9, p. 23
Anfam, David. Abstract Expressionism. London: Thames & Hudson, 1990, mentioned in text p. 155, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 102
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. 1988. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1990, illus. in b&w no. 29 (following p. 50) and mentioned in text p. 49
Oxlade, Roy. "Father Was Brilliant." Modern Painters, Summer 1991, pp. 101-102, mentioned in text p. 101, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, London: Thames and Hudson, 1991, illus. in b&w no. 29 (following p. 50) and mentioned in text p. 49
Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text p. 24, not illus.
Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties. Exh. cat. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1997, Paintings cat. no. 16, illus. in color p. 36
Mack, Gerhard. "Philip Guston Künstler." Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst 36, no. 3 (1997): pp. 1–16, mentioned in text p. 3, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. Reprint, Boston: Da Capo Press, 1997.
, illus. in b&w no. 29 (following p. 50) and mentioned in text p. 49
Haase, Amine. "Die Gewalt der lesbaren Bilder: Spektakulär Deutschland-Premiere des amerikanischen Malers Philip Guston." Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (Cologne), September 2, 1999, mentioned in text, not illus.
Herzog, Samuel. "Stiller Abscheid vom Absoluten, Ausstellung Philip Guston im Kunstmuseum Bonn." Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich), October 15, 1999, mentioned in text as "White Painting", not illus.
Schreier, Christoph, Michael Auping, and Martin Hentschel. Philip Guston: Gemalde 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1999, unnumbered catalog, illus. in color p. 67, shown in Bonn and Stuttgart
Leydier, Richard. "Philip Guston l'heretique/The Heresies of Philip Guston." Art Press, October 2000, pp. 36–41, mentioned in text p. 39, not illus.
Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, illus. in color p. 67 and mentioned in text pp. 17, 33, 34
Ottinger, Didier, and Philip Roth. Philip Guston: Peintures 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2000, illus. in color p. 52
Philip Guston Peintures 1947-1979. Exh. brochure. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2000, mentioned in text, not illus.
Herskovic, Marika. New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists. Franklin Lakes: New York School, 2000, illus. in color p. 171
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Cooper, Harry. "Recognizing Guston (In Four Slips)." October 99 (2002): pp. 96–129, mentioned in text p. 126, not illus.
Hancock, Trenton Doyle. "Philip Guston Retrospective: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth." Art Lies (Houston), Summer 2003, p. 67, mentioned in text, not illus.
Odessa (TX) American. "Guston Paintings on Display at Met." October 29, 2003, mentioned in text, not illus.
Kimmelman, Michael. "Anxious Liberator of an Era's Demons." The New York Times, October 31, 2003, section Weekend, pp. E37, E39, mentioned in text p. E39, not illus.
USA Today (West Babylon, NY). "Philip Guston: Abstract Expressionism's Provocative Pioneer and Ultimate Critic." November 1, 2003, mentioned in text
Minthorn, David. "Exhibit Honors Acclaimed Guston." Star-Gazette (Elmira, NY), November 2, 2003, mentioned in text, not illus.
Kunitz, Daniel. "The Three Faces of Philip Guston." New York Sun, December 30, 2003, mentioned in text, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 28, unpaginated (but would be p. 126) and mentioned in text p. 39
Krauss, Nicole. "The First Painter after the Last." Modern Painters, Winter 2003, mentioned in text pp. 88, 89 and 90, not illus.
Lambirth, Andrew. "Apocalyptic Vision." Spectator (London), January 24, 2004, p. 36, mentioned in text, not illus.
Rubinstein, Raphael. "Philip Guston: Some Thoughts." Art in America, March 2004, mentioned in text p. 87, not illus.
Ferguson, Russell. The Undiscovered Country. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2004, illus. in color p. 26
Botelho, Manuel. Guston em contexto: até ao regresso da figura. Lisbon: Livros Vendaval, 2007, illus. in color and mentioned in text pp. 79 and 91
Schreier, Christoph, Poul Erik Tøjner, Isabel Dervaux, and Michael Semff. Philip Guston: Works on Paper. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007, fig. 2, illus. in color p. 47 (Christoph Schreier essay) and mentioned in text p. 46 (Christoph Schreier essay)
Tinterow, Gary, Lisa Mintz Messinger, and Nan Rosenthal, eds. Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007, fig. 22 illus. in color and mentioned in text p. 84
Sandler, Irving. Abstract Expressionism and the American Experience: A Reevaluation. Lenox: Hard Press Editions, 2009, illus. in color p. 161 and mentioned in text p. 162
Cooper, Harry. "Like Clockwork." Artforum, October 2010, mentioned in text p. 57, not illus.
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, mentioned in text pp. 215, 255 and 297, not illus.
Siegel, Katy. Abstract Expressionism. New York: Phaidon, 2011, illus. in color p. 132
Slifkin, Robert. Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, illus. in b&w fig. 65 p. 154
Sylvester, David. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. NichtSoKleineBibliothek 8. Bern: Piet Meyer Verlag, 2013, illus. in color p. 102, illus. no. 37
Pfeiffer, Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Philip Guston Das Grosse Spatwerk/Late Works. Exh. cat. Cologne: Strzeleckibooks, 2013, mentioned in text p. 142 (English)/143 (German), not illus.
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. 11, listed as being from 1950
Storr, Robert. "Philip Guston: Hilarious and Horrifying." New York Review of Books, March 8, 2015. Online, mentioned in text, not illus, listed as being from 1950
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Munich: Sieveking Verlag; Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. no. 38, illus. in color p. 75 and mentioned in text pp. 75-76
Broadway World. "Hauser & Wirth Presents Nothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 2/2." January 30, 2017. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Romm, Jake. "This Exciting Exhibition Will Have You Hearing Sculptures." Forward, March 15, 2017. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Fanti, Andrea. "Philip Guston, il sesto poeta." Corriere della Sera (Milan), July 30, 2017, mentioned in text, not illus.
Nothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 1947–1962. Exh. cat. New York: Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color p. 75
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: Un ritratto intimo di Philip Guston. Monza: Johan & Levi, 2017, illus. in color fig. 17 (opposite p. 160) and mentioned in text p. 62
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, illus. in b&w Fig. 3.3 p. 66 and illus. in color Plate 13 (no page number) and mentioned in text pp. 65, 67, 73, 79, 129 and 170
Miller, Peter Benson. Encounters I. Exh. cat. Rome: American Academy in Rome, 2019, illus. in color p. 7 and mentioned in text p. 6
Laster, Paul. "Philip Guston: A Life Lived Through Art." Art & Object (Chapel Hill, NC), July 21, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
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 32 p. 53 and mentioned in text pp. 43-44, 47, and 229
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color and mentioned in text p. 34
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 37 illus. in color p. 51 and mentioned in text pp. 49, 50, 52 and 294
Guston, Philip. I Paint What I Want To See. Penguin Classics, 2022, mentioned in text p. 187, not illus.
Bui, Phong. "Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation." Brooklyn Rail, May 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Bui, Phong. "Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation." Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2023, pp. 48-49, mentioned in text p. 49, not illus.
Westall, Mark. "Tate Modern to present a landmark exhibition of Philip Guston this October." FAD Magazine, August 22, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Florian, Federico. "Philip Guston arriva alla Tate Modern." Il Giornale Dell'Arte, October 3, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Luzi, Irene. "Philip Guston alla Tate Modern, con più di 100 opere. Le immagini della mostra." ArtsLife (Milan), October 5, 2023. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Thalberg, Lisbeth. "Philip Guston. Tate Modern. London." Martin Cid Magazine, October 7, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Art Daily. "Philip Guston's first major UK retrospective in 20 years on view at Tate Modern." October 9, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Westall, Mark. "Philip Guston's first major UK retrospective in 20 years opens at Tate Modern." FAD Magazine, October 9, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Judah, Hettie. "Philip Guston, Tate Modern, review: Outstanding paintings of crisis, violence and injustice." i (London), October 21, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Judah, Hettie. "Taking Philip Guston on his own terms." Apollo, October 24, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Judah, Hettie. "In Perspective: 'While I have thought a lot about Guston, I had seen little of his work." Apollo (London), November 2023, pp. 33-34, mentioned in text, not illus.
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. 38, illus. in color p. 75 and mentioned in text pp. 75-76