Catalogue Raisonné

P60.021

Composer's Landscape, to M.F., 1958-1960
Oil on canvas
49 x 47 in.
124.5 x 119.4 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "COMPOSER'S [underlined]/ LANDSCAPE, TO M.F" [underlined]/ 1958-60/ "49 X 47"/ N.F.S.
Provenance
San José Museum of Art, Gift of Dixon and Barbara Farley
Dixon and Barbara Farley
Private Collection
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
Galerie Wurthle, Vienna, Austria, "Vanguard American Painting", June 19, 1961 - July 08, 1961 Travelled to:
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962  Travelled to:
San José Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, "Diebenkorn in the Bedroom, DeFeo in the Den: Generous Gifts from the Dixon and Barbara Farley Collection", October 03, 2015 - February 28, 2016
Bibliography
Ashton, Dore. "Philip Guston." Metro, 1961, pp. 33–41, no. 12 illus. in b&w p. 41
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. 11, not illus.
Savremena američka umetnost. Exh. cat. Yugoslavia, 1961, cat. no. 31, not illus., work listed as from 1958-1960
Amerikanische Maler der Gegenwart. Exh. cat. Salzburg: Zwerglgarten, 1961, cat. no. 31, not illus., listed as being from 1958-1960
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 83, not illus.
Vanguard American Painting. Exh. cat. London: American Embassy London, 1962, cat. no. 31, not illus., work listed as having been done 1958-1960
Abstrakte amerikanische Malerei. Exh. cat. Darmstadt: Hessischen Landesmuseum, 1962, cat. no. 31, not illus.