Catalogue Raisonné
P57.002
Oil on canvas
65 x 75 in.
165.1 x 190.5 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: "FABLE" (backwards 'F') 1956-57/PHILIP GUSTON/65" x 75"
- Provenance
- Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis. University purchase, Bixby Fund, 1957
- Exhibitions
- Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "8 Americans", April 01, 1957 - April 20, 1957
- Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO, "[Unknown Title]", May 10, 1957 - May 31, 1957
- Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", February 24, 1958 - March 22, 1958
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962 Travelled to:
- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, "Masterworks from Washington University Collection", April 07, 1966 - May 08, 1966
- Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, "American Painting Since World War II", June 08, 1971 - July 11, 1971
- Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO, "Summer Selections", May 24, 1979 - August 31, 1979
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980 Travelled to:
- Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, "Philip Guston and Max Beckmann: A Reminiscence", November 08, 1988 - December 13, 1988
- Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", September 09, 1989 - October 22, 1989
- Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO, "A Gallery of Modern Art", August 15, 1994 - October 16, 1994
- Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO, "Abstract Expressionism: American Art in the 1950s and 1960s", January 17, 1997 - April 06, 1997
- Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO, "Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism", January 12, 1998 - April 05, 1998
- Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO, "International Abstraction: Art of the 1950s from the Washington University Collections", January 22, 1999 - March 28, 1999
- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003 Travelled to:
- Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, "Philip Guston: Painterly Abstraction to the Figurative Grotesque", June 23, 2006 - September 04, 2006
- Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum , St. Louis, MO, "Frederick Hartt and American Abstraction in the 1950s: Building the Collection at Washington University in St. Louis", May 04, 2012 - August 27, 2012
- Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum , St. Louis, MO, "Real/Radical/Psychological: The Collection on Display", September 09, 2016 - January 15, 2017
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022 Travelled to:
- Bibliography
- Devree, Howard. "Old East, New Art: Japan's Recent Painting—Today's Americans." The New York Times, April 7, 1957, p. X17, mentioned in text, not illus.
- McCue, George. "Givens Art Exhibit Crackles in Color." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 15, 1957, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Ashton, Dore. "Art." Arts & Architecture, June 1957, pp. 8–10, illus. in b&w p. 8 and mentioned in text p. 9
- 8 Americans: Albers deKooning Gorky Guston Kline Motherwell Pollock Rothko. Exh. cat. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1957, cat. no. 4, illus. in b&w, listed as "Fable"
- Ashton, Dore. "Art." Arts & Architecture, April 1958, pp. 8, 29 and 32, illus. in b&w p. 8
- Ashton, Dore. "Some Lyricists in the New York School." Art News and Review (London), November 22, 1958, pp. 3, 8, illus. in b&w p. 3
- Schiff, Bennett. [Article title unknown]. New York Post, 1958, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Sandler, Irving. "Guston: A Long Voyage Home." ARTnews, December 1959, pp. 36–39, 64–65, illus. in b&w no. 7 p. 38. Mentioned in text p. 38. Listed as being from 1956-57 in text, but as being from 1957 with illustration
- Ashton, Dore. Philip Guston. New York: Grove, 1960, illus. in b&w (unpaginated) and discussed p. 54, listed as "Fable"
- Alloway, Lawrence. "Book Reviews: Ashton on Guston." Arts Review, July 23–August 12, 1961, pp. 17, 20, mentioned in text p. 17, not illus.
- Hunter, Sam, "Philip Guston," Art International, May 1962, pp. 62–67, illus. in b&w p. 63 as "Fable I" and mentioned in text pp. 66-67 as "Fable" and from 1957
- O'Hara, Frank. "Growth and Guston." ARTnews, May 1962, pp. 31–33, 51–52, illus. in b&w p. 32
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 34, illus. in b&w p. 71
- Mullins, Edwin. "Guston and the Imaginative Experiment." Apollo (London), March 1963, pp. 229–30, illus.
- Nordland, Gerald. "Review at Mid-Life." Frontier, July 1963, pp. 23–25, illus. in b&w p. 24 and mentioned in text p. 25
- O'Hara, Frank. "Growth and Guston." In Art Chronicles 1954–1966. New York: George Braziller, 1975, pp. 134-141, illus. in b&w p. 139, Fig. 4, listed as "Fable." Also mentioned in text p. 140 as "Fable, 1"
- Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 111
- Kingsley, April. "Philip Guston's Endgame: From Realism to Abstraction and Back, Philip Guston Remains Unique in Twentieth-Century Art." Horizon: The Magazine of the Arts, June 1980, pp. 34–41, mentioned in text p. 39, not illus.
- Woodstock Times. "Philip Guston dies in Woodstock." June 12, 1980, pp. 18-19, illus. in b&w p. 18
- Albright, Thomas. "Philip Guston: 'It's a Strange Thing to Be Immersed in the Culture of Painting...'" ARTnews, September 1980, pp. 114–16, mentioned in text p. 115 (unpaginated), not illus.
- Rickey, Carrie. "Gust, Gusto, Guston." Artforum, October 1980, pp. 32–39, mentioned in text p. 38 as "Fable", not illus.
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 28, illus. in color plate 23 p. 67
- Lansing, Gerritt L. "Guston Retrospective." Art/World, Summer 1981, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Hill, Andrea. "No Picnic: Philip Guston at the Whitney." Artscribe, August 1981, pp. 19–21, mentioned in text p. 21, not illus.
- Illustrated Checklist of the Collection, Washington University Gallery of Art. St. Louis: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1981, illus. in b&w p. 40
- Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, illus. in b&w p. 11
- Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in text p. 79, not illus.
- Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in color p. 111
- Neidhardt, Jane, ed. A Gallery of Modern Art at Washington University in St. Louis. St. Louis: Washington University Gallery of Art, 1994, illus. in color no. 76, p. 169. Discussed pp. 168 and 201
- 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)
- Krauss, Nicole. "The First Painter after the Last." Modern Painters, Winter 2003, illus. in color p. 89 and mentioned in text p. 88
- Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 42, unpaginated (but would be p. 141) and mentioned in text p. 47
- Philip Guston: Odd Man Out. BBC Four, January 28, 2004. Television, detail illus. in color
- Furness, Rosalind. "London: Royal Academy, Timothy Taylor Gallery, Philip Guston." Contemporary, March 2004, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Hohmeyer, Boris. "Die Entdeckung der Wirklichkeit." Art: Das Kunstmagazin March 2007, pp. 26–35, mentioned in text p. 34, not illus.
- Botelho, Manuel. Guston em contexto: até ao regresso da figura. Lisbon: Livros Vendaval, 2007, illus. in color p. 100
- Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, mentioned in text p. 218, not illus.
- Wilson, Calvin. "Kemper Exhibition Focuses on Abstract Art." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 22, 2012. Online, illus. in color
- Butler, Karen K. Frederick Hartt and American Abstraction in the 1950s: Building the Collection at Washington University in St. Louis. St. Louis: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 2012, pp. 15-16, note 24, 30, fig. 10
- 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. 45, not illus.
- Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text pp. 67, 71 and 134, not illus.
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 51 illus. in color p. 68 and mentioned in text pp. 64 and 70
- 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 45 p. 66 and mentioned in text pp. 44-45
- Whyte, Murray. "The MFA recast artist Philip Guston amid a nationwide racial reckoning -- here's the result." Boston Globe, April 28, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Whyte, Murray. "Guston show gives new entry points--and exits." Boston Globe, May 1, 2022, pp. N1, N2, mentioned in text, not illus.
- 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 as part of an installation photo
- Michelman, Elizabeth. "Philip Guston's True Colors at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." Artscope, August 9, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Wullschläger, Jackie. "Philip Guston, Tate Modern review — violent, unsettling and thrilling from start to finish." Financial Times, October 5, 2023. Online.
, mentioned in text, not illus. - Wullschläger, Jackie. "Violent and unsettling." FT Weekend (London), October 7-8, 2023, section Arts, pp. 14-15., mentioned in text p. 15, not illus.
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Prodger, Michael. "Philip Guston's American monsters." New Statesman (London), October 8, 2023. Online.
, mentioned in text, not illus.
