1980-1989
Litt, Steven. "Guston's Late Work Intensely Personal." News and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.), May 18, 1986, p. 4E.
Price, Mark. "On Display in Raleigh: Philip Guston's World Bizarre Place of Abstract Symbolism and Imagery." Fayetteville Times, May 27, 1986, section People, p. 14A.
Halperen, Max. "Guston Paintings May Overwhelm Viewers." Leader Newsmagazine (Research Triangle Park, N. C.), June 12–19, 1986, p. 15.
Baker, Kenneth. "Seven for a Swan Song." San Francisco Chronicle Review, August 17, 1986, pp. 12-13.
Beck, James. "Il Segno Americano." Promoteo, September 1986.
Sozanski, Edward J. "90 Women's Art Brought Together in Wallingford." Philadelphia Inquirer, September 11, 1986, p. 5-E.
Schwabsky, Barry. "'The Real Situation:' Philip Guston and Mark Rothko at the End of the Sixties." Arts Magazine, December 1986.
Larson, Kay. "The Met Goes Modern: Bill Lieberman's Brave New Wing." New York, December 15, 1986, pp. 40–48.
Gopnik, Adam. "The Genius of George Herriman." New York Review of Books, December 18, 1986, pp. 19–28.
Russell, John. "Assured Successes and Memorable Surprises." The New York Times, December 28, 1986, pp. H27–H28.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986.
Arnason, H. H. History of Modern Art. 3rd ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986.
Hobbs, Robert. 101 Masterworks. Exh. cat. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1986.
Figure as Subject: The Last Decade. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1986.
Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions 1973–1986. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1986.
Gettinger, Pamela. Maelstrom: Contemporary Images of Violence. Exh. cat. Hempstead: Hofstra University, 1986.
Sims, Patterson. Twentieth-Century American Art. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1986.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Greenville: Greenville County Museum of Art, 1986.
Godfrey, Tony. The New Image: Painting in the 1980s. New York: Abbeville Press, 1986.
The First Bank Art Collection: Acquisitions: Forging A Partnership Between Art and Business. Minneapolis: First Bank Systems, 1986.
The Tate Gallery 1982–84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions. London: Tate Gallery, 1986.
Lieberman, William S., Lisa Mintz Messinger, Sabine Rewals, and Lowery S. Sims. Painting: 1945–1985, Selections from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986.
Thaw, Eugene Victor. "The Abstract Expressionists." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Winter 1986–1987.
"Philip Guston (1913-1980): Painting, Smoking, Eating/ Schilderen, roken, eten, 1973." In Op het tweede gezicht. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1986.
