Catalogue Raisonné

P43.012

Ball Turret Gunnery, 1943
Gouache on paper
14¾ x 21⅞ in.
37.5 x 55.6 cm
Signed front lower right: Guston
Provenance
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Iowa Memorial Union, Iowa City, IA, "Paintings and Drawings by Philip Guston", March 05, 1944 - March 19, 1944 
Midtown Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", January 15, 1945 - February 10, 1945 
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties", January 25, 1997 - March 16, 1997  Travelled to:
Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY, "Philip Guston: Brave New World 1943: Drawings & Gouaches Commissioned During World War II", July 12, 1997 - September 08, 1997  Travelled to:
Bibliography
Fortune. "The Air Training Program." February 1944, pp. 146–52, 174, illus. in color p. 150
Paintings and Drawings by Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Iowa City: State University of Iowa, 1944, cat. no. 4, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Midtown Galleries, 1945, cat. no. 24, not illus., listed as "Sperry Ball Turret"
Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties. Exh. cat. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1997, Drawings cat. no. 8, illus. in color p. 43
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 23 illus. in color p. 35 and mentioned in text p. 36