1986
An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940. Exh. cat. New York: Abbeville Press, 1986. texts
Hobbs, Robert. 101 Masterworks. Exh. cat. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1986.
Godfrey, Tony. The New Image: Painting in the 1980s. New York: Abbeville Press, 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.
"Philip Guston (1913-1980): Painting, Smoking, Eating/ Schilderen, roken, eten, 1973." In Op het tweede gezicht. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1986.
Gettinger, Pamela. Maelstrom: Contemporary Images of Violence. Exh. cat. Hempstead: Hofstra University, 1986.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986.
Sims, Patterson. Twentieth-Century American Art. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1986.
Thaw, Eugene Victor. "The Abstract Expressionists." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Winter 1986–1987.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Greenville: Greenville County Museum of Art, 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.
The Tate Gallery 1982–84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions. London: Tate Gallery, 1986.
The First Bank Art Collection: Acquisitions: Forging A Partnership Between Art and Business. Minneapolis: First Bank Systems, 1986.
