Catalogue Raisonné
P60.024
Oil on canvas
61 x 67⅜ in.
154.9 x 171.1 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
- Provenance
- Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Mari and James A. Michener, 1968
- Mari and James A. Michener
- Exhibitions
- Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "New Paintings by Philip Guston", February 13, 1961 - March 11, 1961
- The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, "The Sidney Janis Painters", April 08, 1961 - May 07, 1961
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962 Travelled to:
- Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, "Selections from the James A. Michener Foundation Collection", October 04, 1963 - October 27, 1963
- Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, "The James A. Michener Foundation Collection", December 08, 1963 - January 12, 1964
- National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, "Selected Paintings from the James A. Michener Foundation Collection", February 18, 1964 - March 30, 1964 Travelled to:
- Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, "Recent Paintings from the James A. Michener Foundation", April 13, 1966 - April 30, 1966
- Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, Columbus, GA, "Sources for Tomorrow, from the James A. Michener Foundation Collection", January 14, 1967 - February 12, 1967 Travelled to:
- Wilson Memorial Art Center, Beaumont, TX, "Selections from the Michener Collection", July 06, 1970 - August 08, 1970
- Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, "The Sixties: A Collection of Paintings from the Michener Collection", September 19, 1971 - October 18, 1971
- Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX, "The Michener Collection: American Paintings of the Twentieth Century, inaugural exhibition in the Michener Galleries", November 22, 1972 - March 01, 1973
- Michener Galleries, , "Abstract Expressionism: The First and Second Generations, selected from paintings in the Michener Collection", September 23, 1973 - November 25, 1973
- Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, TX, "Gorky's Contemporaries", October 12, 1975 - November 23, 1975
- Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, TX, "Abstract Expressionists and Imagists: A Retrospective View, An Exhibition of Paintings from the Michener Collection", February 01, 1976 - March 28, 1976
- Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX, "Figure & Form 1960 - 1970, Selections from the Michener Collection", May 14, 1978 - August 20, 1978
- Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, TX, "A Tribute to Mari and James A. Michener: Selections from the Michener Collection of Twentieth-Century American Art", May 20, 1992 - July 26, 1992
- James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, "Twentieth Century American Art from the Mari and James A. Michener Collection", July 19, 1993 - January 02, 1994 Travelled to:
- Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, "Painting Explosion, 1958-1963", January 24, 2003 - April 13, 2003
- Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, "Painting Explosion, 1958-1963: Part II", April 19, 2003 - July 27, 2003
- Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Painter", April 26, 2016 - July 30, 2016
- Bibliography
- Ashton, Dore. "Philip Guston." Metro, 1961, pp. 33–41, no. 9 illus. in b&w p. 40 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text pp. 37 and 38
- Albers, Baziotes, Gorky, Gottlieb, Guston, Kline, de Kooning, Motherwell, Pollock, Rothko: The Sidney Janis Painters. Exh. cat. Sarasota: The John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, 1961, cat. no. 12, illus. in b&w (unpaginated)
- Hunter, Sam, "Philip Guston," Art International, May 1962, pp. 62–67, illus. in color p. 66 and mentioned in text p. 67
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 78, illus. in color p. 101
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1962, illus. in color (no page #)
- Lambert, Helen. "Guston Show Heads London Gallery List." New York Herald Tribune (Paris), January 16, 1963, p. 5, mentioned in text as "Alchemist", not illus.
- Yates, Peter. "Philip Guston at the County Museum." Arts & Architecture, September 1963, pp. 4–5, 31–32, s "The Alchemist", not illus.
- The James A. Michener Foundation Collection. Exh. cat. Allentown: Allentown Art Museum, 1963, no. 40, illus. in color
- Hirsch, Richard. "Private Affinities and Public Uses: The Michener Collection." Arts Magazine, May 1966, illus. in color pg. 24
- Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 120
- Powell III, Earl A. The James A. Michener Collection: Twentieth Century American Painting. Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 1977, illus. p. 145
-
The University of Texas at Austin Continuing Education Programs. Brochure. Fall 1982.
, illus. in color on front cover - Inaugural Exhibition of Twentieth-Century American Art. Exh. cat. Essays by Peter F. Blume and Tom Moran. Forward by James A. Michener. Introduction by Linda Constance Buki. Doylestown: James A. Michener Art Center of Bucks County, 1988, illus. in color p. 39
- Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 120
- Newton, Steven James. Painting, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, illus. in b&w fig. 22. and mentioned in text pp. 128, 130, 131 and 150
- Carlozzi, Annette DiMeo, and Kelly Baum, eds. Blanton Museum of Art: American Art Since 1900. Austin: Blanton Museum of Art, 2006, cat. no. 55 illus. in color p. 114
- Yareah. "New York Exhibits. Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." April 11, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- NY Arts. "Philip Guston: Painter, 1957–1967 @ Hauser & Wirth New York." April 13, 2016. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Broadway World. "Hauser & Wirth to Display New Philip Guston Exhibit, Today." April 26, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Eckardt, Stephanie. "Philip Guston's Pivotal Moment." W, April 27, 2016. Online, illus. in color
- Kinsella, Eileen. "Hauser and Wirth Opens Huge Philip Guston Show Pinpointing 'Pivotal' Decade." artnet News, April 27, 2016. Online, illus. in color
- Micchelli, Thomas. "Flesh and Bones: Philip Guston's 'Thingness.'" Hyperallergic, April 30, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Cohen, Alina. "Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth: The Unfreedom of a Blank Canvas and Pushing Back Against Success." Forbes, April 30, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Alexander, Stephen. "Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." Stephen Alexander Journal. Blog. May 1, 2016, illus. in color
- Galleries Now. "Philip Guston: Painter, 1957–1967." May 10, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Scobie, Ilka. "Philip Guston's Last Decade of Abstraction Hauser & Wirth NY." Artlyst, May 10, 2016. Online, illus. in color, but mis-captioned
- Plagens, Peter. "'Affordable' Art, Powerful Panels and the AbEx Table." Wall Street Journal, May 20, 2016. Online, illus. in color
- Arte Fuse. "Philip Guston Painter, 1957–1967 at Hauser & Wirth." May 21, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- The New Yorker. [Article title unknown]. May 30, 2016, p. 12, illus. in color p. 12
- Pardee, Hearne. "Roundtable: Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." Artcritical, June 9, 2016. Online, illus. in color
- Martin, Alison. "Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." Artery NYC, July 8, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Gieskes, Mette. "I is an Other: Philip Guston's Imagined Incarnations of God and Klansmen." In Example or Alter Ego? Aspects of the Portrait Historie in Western Art from Antiquity to the Present. Edited by Volker Manuth, Rudie van Leeuwen, and Jos Koldeweij. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016, mentioned in text as "The Alchemist" p. 294, not illus.
- Philip Guston: Painter 1957–1967. Exh. cat. New York: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. in color p. 63
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color No. 72 p. 85 and mentioned in text pp. 75 and 307
