Catalogue Raisonné

D430004

Clothes Inflation Drill (For Navy Pre-Flight Training), 1943
Pencil and crayon on paper
22½ x 29 in.
57.2 x 73.7 cm
Signed and dated front lower right: Philip Guston 1943
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 Galleries, University of Nebraska, Morrill Hall, Lincoln, NE, "Nebraska Art Association 55th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art", March 04, 1945 - April 01, 1945
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "The Drawings of Philip Guston", September 07, 1988 - November 01, 1988  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:
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003  Travelled to:
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston Now", March 02, 2023 - August 27, 2023 
Bibliography
Paintings and Drawings by Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Iowa City: State University of Iowa, 1944, cat. no. 12, not illus., listed as "Clothes Inflation Drill"
Fifty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Exh. cat. Lincoln: Nebraska Art Association, 1945, cat. no. 55, not illus., shown as "Inflation Practice"
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Midtown Galleries, 1945, cat. no. 18, not illus. Listed as "Inflation Practise"
Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, illus. in b&w p. 16, listed as "Wartime drawing for Fortune Magazine"
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in b&w no. 68 p. 71, listed as "Flotation Exercise (from series done for Fortune magazine)"
Welish, Marjorie. "I Confess: The Drawings of Philip Guston." Arts Magazine, November 1988, pp. 46–50, mentioned in text p. 47, not illus.
Dabrowski, Magdalena. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988, cat. no. 7, illus. in b&w p. 56 and mentioned in text p. 18
Philip Guston, Opere Su Carta 1933–1980. Exh. cat. Milan: Electa, 1989, cat. no. 5, illus. in b&w p. 60
Dabrowski, Magdalena. Dibuixos Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Barcelona: Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, 1989, cat. no. 7 illus. in b&w p. 76
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. 18, no. 3 (Robert Storr essay)
Shapiro, Michael Edward. "Philip Guston: The War Years." Print Collector's Newsletter, September–October 1994, mentioned in text p. 129, not illus.
Griffin, Tim. "Philip Guston: Brave New World: 1943." On Paper, November–December 1997, p. 47, mentioned in text, not illus.
Welish, Marjorie. "The Art of Philip Guston." In Signifying Art: Essays on Art After 1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, mentioned in text p. 150, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 9, unpaginated (but would be p. 106)
Botelho, Manuel. Guston em contexto: até ao regresso da figura. Lisbon: Livros Vendaval, 2007, illus. in b&w p. 53 and mentioned in text p. 54
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 18 p. 35 and mentioned in text p. 28
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 24 and mentioned in text p. 14
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 22 illus. in color p. 35 and mentioned in text p. 36