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P59.032

Painter, 1959
Oil on canvas
65 x 69 in.
165.1 x 175.3 cm
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "PAINTER" [underlined] 1959/ "65x69"
Provenance
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Purchase with Funds from the National Endowment for the Arts
Collection Mr. and Mrs. J. Daniel Weitzman, New York
Exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "29 Recent Paintings by Philip Guston", December 28, 1959 - January 23, 1960 
US Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, Venice , Italy, "Quattro Artisti Americani: Guston, Hofmann, Kline, Roszak, XXX Biennale Venezia", June 18, 1960 - October 16, 1960
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
Tate Gallery, London, England, "Painting & Sculpture of a Decade: 54-64", April 22, 1964 - June 28, 1964
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, "Philip Guston, A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945-1965", February 27, 1966 - March 27, 1966 
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, "American Works--Past and Present", November 08, 1974 - March 30, 1975
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
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989  Travelled to:
Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", May 25, 1989 - July 16, 1989
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", September 09, 1989 - October 22, 1989
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", November 19, 1989 - January 14, 1990
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, "Philip Guston Retrospective", January 24, 2004 - April 12, 2004
Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Painter", April 26, 2016 - July 30, 2016 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022  Travelled to:
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "Philip Guston Now", October 23, 2022 - January 15, 2023
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston Now", March 02, 2023 - August 27, 2023
Bibliography
Canaday, John. "Art: Stylistic Poles Apart: Philip Guston, Abstractionist, and Jack Levine, Satirist, Have Shows Here." The New York Times, December 30, 1959, p. 44, mentioned in text, not illus., listed as "Painter"
29 Recent Paintings by Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1959, cat. no. 8, illus. in b&w (no page #), listed as "Painter"
Kingston Daily Freeman. "Guston Exhibit Draws Acclaim at Janis Gallery." January 11, 1960, p. 14, mentioned in text, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. "Art." Arts & Architecture, March 1960, pp. 10–11, mentioned in text p. 11, not illus., listed as "Painter"
Quattro Artisti Americani: Guston, Hofmann, Kline, Roszak, XXX Biennale Venezia. Exh. cat. Washington, D.C.: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1960, cat. no. 11, not illus., shown as "The Painter", Sidney Janis Gallery New York City
XXX Biennale Internazionale D'Arte. Exh. cat. Venice: Biennale de Venice, 1960, cat. no. 11, illus. in b&w plate 200 (unpaginated), listed as "Il Pittore". Also mentioned in text p. 311
Berkson, Bill. "Art Chronicle." Kulchur, Autumn 1962, pp. 30–40, mentioned in text p. 37 as "Painter I", not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 72 color plate p. 97, Collection Mr. and Mrs. J. Daniel Weitzman, New York. Mentioned in text p. 33, Listed as "Painter I"
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1962, illus. in color (no page #)
Mullins, Edwin. "Beneath the Paint." Sunday Telegraph, January 20, 1963, mentioned in text, not illus.
Lynton, Norbert. "London Letter." Art International, February 25, 1963, pp. 68–71, illus. in b&w p. 70, listed as "Painter I"
Painting & Sculpture of a Decade: 54–64. Exh. cat. London: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1964, cat. no. 171, illus. in b&w p. 153
Philip Guston: A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945–1965. Exh. brochure. Waltham: The Poses Institute of Fine Arts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1966, cat. no. 19, not illus. Listed as "Painter I"
O'Hara, Frank. "Growth and Guston." In Art Chronicles 1954–1966. New York: George Braziller, 1975, pp. 134-141, mentioned in text p. 141, not illus., listed as "Painter, 1"
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Workman, Andree M. "Guston: A Born-Again Painter." West Art (Auburn, CA), June 13, 1980, pp. 1, 3, mentioned in text p. 3, not illus.
Rickey, Carrie. "Gust, Gusto, Guston." Artforum, October 1980, pp. 32–39, illus. in color p. 34
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 35, illus. in color plate 31 p. 75
Purviance, Nina. "Philip Guston in the Fifties: The Power of Suggestion." Arts Magazine, September 1985, pp. 94–97, Fig. 10 illus. in b&w p. 96 and mentioned in text p. 97
Ablow, Joseph. "Philip Guston: The Last Paintings." Bostonia Magazine April/May 1986: pp. 14–19, mentioned in text p. 16, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in b&w no. 33 p. 38 and mentioned in text p. 35
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in text p. 80, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, illus. in color no. 48 (following p. 146) and mentioned in text p. 92
Fernandez, Horacio. "El Último Perplejo." El Europeo, March 1989, pp. 66-74, illus. in color p. 74
Brandenburg, John. "Seeing Guston's Art Requires a 'Leap' to Dallas." Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK), December 24, 1989, section Travel & Entertainment, p. 4, mentioned in text, not illus., listed as "The Painter"
Tyson, Janet. "Autobiographical side paints life of struggle." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, December 28, 1989, section Four, pp. 1, 7, mentioned in text, 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, cat. no. 20, illus. in color p. 63, listed as "The Painter"
Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 116
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Silver, Larry. Art in History. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1993, illus. in b&w fig. 10.42 and mentioned in text p. 464
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, illus. in b&w no. 48 (following p. 146) and mentioned in text p. 92
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Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 48, unpaginated, listed as "The Painter". Also mentioned in text p. 49, referred to as "The Painter"
Botelho, Manuel. Guston em contexto: até ao regresso da figura. Lisbon: Livros Vendaval, 2007, mentioned in text p. 101, not illus.
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Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now. Exh. cat. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2007, mentioned in text p. 163, 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, not illus.
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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 49 p. 70 and mentioned in text pp. x, 45, 127 and 196
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 41 and mentioned in text p. 40
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Allen, Brian T. "Philip Guston Now, Delayed by Race Hysteria, Finally Gets Its Day." National Review, October 1, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Wilkin, Karen. "Philip Guston in Boston, Houston, and Washington." Hudson Review, Spring 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Brooklyn Rail. "Reflections on Philip Guston Now." June 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Searle, Adrian. "'What would it be like to be evil?'" Guardian, October 4, 2023, p. 8, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024.
, mentioned in text p. 16, not illus.