Catalogue Raisonné
P42.002
Oil on canvas
24 x 16 in.
61.0 x 40.6 cm
Signed and dated front lower left: Philip Guston/ 1942
- Provenance
 - Myron Kunin Collection of American Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
 - Auction: Butterfield, Butterfield & Dunning, San Francisco, October 26, 1999, Lot 1051
 - Private Collection
 - Collection Mr. Paul Engle
 - Exhibitions
 - Midtown Gallery, New York, NY, "Small Paintings for the Home", circa October 1943
 - Iowa Memorial Union, Iowa City, IA, "Paintings and Drawings by Philip Guston", March 05, 1944 - March 19, 1944
 - Midtown Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", January 15, 1945 - February 10, 1945
 - University of Iowa Art Department, Iowa City, IA, "Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Prints from Twenty-Three Iowa Collections", May 09, 1961 - August 06, 1961
 - Musee d'art Moderne Lille Metropole, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, "Mexique-Europe, Allers-Retours, 1910-1960", September 2004 - January 2005
 - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, "Villa America - American Moderns - 1900-1950", June 04, 2005 - October 02, 2005 Travelled to:
 - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, "After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism & the Midwest", January 30, 2009 - May 17, 2009
 - Bibliography
 - ARTnews. "The Passing Shows." October 1, 1943, p. 29, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text, listed as "Christmas Party"
 - Daily Iowan. "Prof. Philip Guston's Paintings of Army, Navy on Display." March 5, 1944, p. 3, mentioned in text, not illus.
 - Paintings and Drawings by Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Iowa City: State University of Iowa, 1944, cat. no. 19, not illus.
 - Breuning, Margaret. "Philip Guston Impresses in New York Debut." Art Digest, January 15, 1945, p. 12, mentioned in text, not illus.
 - Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Midtown Galleries, 1945, cat. no. 7, not illus., Collection Mr. Paul Engle
 - Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Prints from Twenty-Three Iowa Collections. Exh. cat. Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1961, cat. no. 13, illus. in b&w p. 16. Listed as "Halloween"
 - Shapiro, Michael Edward. "Philip Guston: The War Years." Print Collector's Newsletter, September–October 1994, mentioned in text p. 128, not illus.
 - Mexique-Europe, Allers-Retours, 1910–1960. Exh. cat. Paris: Editions Cercle d'Art, 2004, p. 48, fig. 53
 - Armstrong, Elizabeth. Villa America: American Moderns, 1900–1950. Exh. cat. Newport Beach: Orange County Museum of Art, 2005, Fig. 58, illus. in color p. 101 and illus. in color no. 31 p. 129
 - Walworth, Catherine. "Arts Becoming Modern." San Antonio Current, March 29, 2006. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
 - Balken, Debra Bricker. After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism and the Midwest. Exh. cat. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 2009, illus. in color plate 55 p. 187 and mentioned in text p. 178
 - Thomas, Dylan. "A Monster of a Collection: Guillermo del Toro's Amazing, Colossal Obsessions." Southwest Journal, March 7, 2017. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.