Catalogue Raisonné

D430007

Oxygen Test Chamber (Oxygen Lack Means a Spin to Death), 1943
Wash on paper
16¼ x 25¾ in.
41.3 x 65.4 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:
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003  Travelled to:
Bibliography
Fortune. "The Air Training Program." February 1944, pp. 146–52, 174, illus. p. 149
Daily Iowan. "Prof. Philip Guston's Paintings of Army, Navy on Display." March 5, 1944, p. 3, mentioned in text "Oxygen Test Chamber", not illus.
Paintings and Drawings by Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Iowa City: State University of Iowa, 1944, cat. no. 3, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Midtown Galleries, 1945, cat. no. 25, not illus., listed as "Oxygen Chamber"
Shapiro, Michael Edward. "Philip Guston: The War Years." Print Collector's Newsletter, September–October 1994, illus. in b&w p. 129 and mentioned in text p. 130
Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties. Exh. cat. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1997, Drawings cat. no. 2, illus. in b&w p. 39
Philip Guston: Brave New World: 1943. Exh. brochure. Woodstock: Woodstock Artists Association, 1997., illus. in b&w on front cover
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 11, unpaginated (but would be p. 108)
Philip Guston: Odd Man Out. BBC Four, January 28, 2004. Television, details illus. in color