Catalogue Raisonné
P44.001
Oil on canvas
46¼ x 26 in.
117.5 x 66.0 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
- Provenance
- Collection Unknown
- Auction: Christie's, Post-War and Contemporary Art (Morning Session), November 9, 2005, Lot 271
- Private Collection
- Auction: Sotheby's New York, Contemporary Art, Part II, May 3, 1995, Lot 216
- IBM International Foundation
- Exhibitions
- Midtown Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", January 15, 1945 - February 10, 1945
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "The Nineteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings", March 18, 1945 - April 29, 1945
- Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, "Painting in the United States 1945", October 11, 1945 - December 09, 1945
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, "Eighty New Paintings", April 05, 1946 - May 05, 1946
- Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, "Fifty-Four Paintings by Contemporary American Artists: 33rd Annual Exhibition of Selected American Paintings", June 02, 1946 - August 25, 1946
- University Galleries, University of Nebraska, Morrill Hall, Lincoln, NE, "Nebraska Art Association 57th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art", March 02, 1947 - March 30, 1947
- Pan American Union, Washington, D.C., "Art of the Americas: In Celebration of Pan American Week", April 12, 1955 - May 03, 1955
- U.S. Embassy, Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay, "Art in Embassies Program", 1964
- IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY, "[Unknown Title]", 1964 - 1965
- U.S. Embassy, Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay, "Art in Embassies Program", 1965 - 1967
- IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY, "Portraits from the IBM Collection", June 19, 1967 - July 21, 1967
- Kenosha Public Museum, Kenosha, WI, "Portraits by Americans", January 06, 1968 - February 08, 1968 Travelled to:
- Anderson Fine Arts Center, Anderson, IN, "Portraits by Americans", 1970
- San José Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, "Portraits by Americans: 18 Portraits from the IBM Collection", 1976 - January 31, 1977
- IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY, "Selected Works from the IBM Collection", November 05, 1985 - January 04, 1986
- IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY, "Portraits from the IBM Gallery of Science and Art", March 15, 1994 - June 11, 1994
- Bibliography
- Breuning, Margaret. "Philip Guston Impresses in New York Debut." Art Digest, January 15, 1945, p. 12, mentioned in text, not illus.
- F[rost], R[osamund]. "Guston: Meaning out of Monumentality." ARTnews, February 1, 1945, p. 24, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Frost, Rosamund. "The Corcoran Carries On." ARTnews, April 1, 1945, pp. 18–19, 42, 44, illus. in color p. 19 and mentioned in text p. 42
- Smith, L'Louise. "Life's Interest, Life's Work—Guston Likes to Paint." Daily Iowan, May 23, 1945, p. 3, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Limited Edition. "Carnegie Awards Prizes for 1945." October 1945, pp. 7-8, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text p. 7
- Redd, Penelope. "'Sentimental Moment' Art Show Prize Winner." Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, October 12, 1945, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Iowa City Press-Citizen. "Philip Guston Earns $1,000 Award as 1st Place Winner In Carnegie Institute Show." October 12, 1945, p. 2, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Des Moines Register. "Iowan's $1,000 Prize Painting." October 12, 1945, p. 11.
, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text - Hovey, Walter Reed. "Repose and Dignity Mark Top Painting of Carnegie Exhibit." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 12, 1945, pp. 1, 4, illus. in b&w p. 1 and mentioned in text p. 4
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "St. Louisan's Painting First-Prize Winner: Carnegie Institute Award to Prof. Philip Guston for 'Sentimental Moment.'" October 12, 1945, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Naylor, Douglas. "Iowan's Painting Wins First Prize at Art Show." Pittsburgh Press, October 12, 1945, p. 16, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
- "Iowan's Painting Wins First in Carnegie Art Contest." Chicago Sun-Times, October 12, 1945, mentioned in text, not illus.
- St. Louis Globe-Democrat. "W. U. Artist Wins First Prize at Carnegie Show." October 12, 1945, illus. in b&w
- Jewell, Edward Alden. "Guston Painting Wins Top Prize at Carnegie Institute Exhibition." The New York Times, October 12, 1945, illus. in b&w
- St. Louis Star-Times. "W.U. Teacher Wins 1st Prize in Carnegie Art Exhibition." October 12, 1945, illus. in b&w
- "Today's Best Pictures: Winners in Carnegie Exhibition." Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, October 12, 1945, section 2, illus. in b&w
- Jewell, Edward Alden. "Annual Carnegie Survey." The New York Times, October 14, 1945, p. 7X, illus. in b&w
- Kaufmann, Edgar. "Coming Home to the Carnegie." ARTnews, October 15, 1945, pp. 10–13, detail illus. in b&w p. 10, mentioned in text pp. 12-13
- Gibbs, Jo. "Carnegie Exhibition Provides True Cross-Section of U.S. Painting." Art Digest, October 15, 1945, pp. 5–6, 19, illus. in b&w on cover and mentioned in text p. 5
- Pittsburgh Press Roto. "Carnegie Art Show Winners." October 21, 1945, illus. in color on front cover
- Time. "Prizewinners." October 22, 1945, p. 77, illus. in b&w
- The Blizzard (Oil City, PA). "Artist Is Kin of City Woman," October 24, 1945, p. 2, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Greater Pittsburgh [Chamber of Commerce]. "1945 Carnegie Prize Winner." November 1945, p. 24, illus. in b&w
- O'Connor, John, Jr. "Painting in the United States, 1945." Carnegie Magazine, November 1945, pp. 139–40, illus. in b&w on cover and mentioned in text pp. 139-140
- Bier, Justus. "Art: Carnegie's Exhibit of U.S. Paintings Is Memorable." Louisville Courier-Journal, November 11, 1945, illus. in b&w
- Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Art Room Books of Interest. Flyer. Carnegie Institute, 1945, illus. in b&w on front cover
- Painting in the United States 1945. Exh. cat. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1945, cat. no. 41, illus. in b&w Plate 1
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Midtown Galleries, 1945, cat. no. 2, illus. in b&w on inside cover, listed as having been done in 1944
- The Nineteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1945, cat. no. 17, not illus.
- Life. "Philip Guston: Carnegie Winner's Art is Abstract and Symbolic." May 27, 1946, pp. 90–92, illus. in color full page p. 91 (unpaginated). States that "Guston painted it in Iowa in 1944"
- Toledo Sunday Times. "Painting Here." June 2, 1946, illus. in b&w
- Toledo Blade. "Selected American Paintings Now on Exhibit at Museum." June 6, 1946, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Fifty-Four Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, 33rd Annual Exhibition of Selected American Paintings. Exh. cat. Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art, 1946, cat. no. 16, not illus.
- Book of the Year, 1946 ed.
- Eighty New Paintings. Exh. cat. Buffalo: Albright Art Gallery, 1946, cat. no. 29, not illus., is listed as being done 1944-45
- Gruskin, A. D. Painting in the U.S.A. Garden City: Doubleday, 1946, illus. in color p. 88
- Janson, H. W. "Un gran artista moderno: Philip Guston." Indice de las Artes, October 1947, pp. 1–2, mentioned in text p. 2, not illus.
- Nebraska Art Association 57th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Exh. cat. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1947, cat. no. 73, not illus.
- Larkin, Oliver W. Art and Life in America. New York: Rinehart, 1949, mentioned in text p. 474, not illus.
- Time. "One Explanation." January 7, 1952, p. 56, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Art of the Americas in celebration of Pan American Week. Exh. cat. Washington, D.C.: Pan American Union, 1955, illus.
- Alloway, Lawrence. "Book Reviews: Ashton on Guston." Arts Review, July 23–August 12, 1961, pp. 17, 20, mentioned in text p. 17, not illus.
- Levin, Kim. "Guston." In Art USA Now: 102 Vital Contemporary American Painters, vol. 1. Edited by Lee Nordness. Lucerne: C. J. Bucher, 1962, b&w illus. no. 1 p. 219 (unpaginated)
- Genauer, Emily. "Guston 'Negatives' versus Impressionist Positives." New York Herald Tribune, January 16, 1966, p. 27, mentioned in text p. 27, not illus.
- Anderson, Glenn. "American Artists Subject of New Gallery Exhibit." Anderson (IN) Herald, June 14, 1970, p. 34, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Moritz, Charles, ed. Current Biography, February 1971, pp. 10-13, mentioned in text p. 11, not illus.
- Diamonstein, Barbaralee, ed. The Art World: A Seventy-Five Treasury of ARTnews. New York: Rizzoli, 1977, illus. in b&w p. 194
- Brach, Paul. "Looking at Guston." Art in America, November 1980, pp. 96–101, mentioned in text p. 96, not illus.
- Hanson, Bernard. "Guston's Fine Lines and Gray Areas." Hartford Courant, August 23, 1981, p. G2, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, mentioned in text p. 60 as part of Chronology, not illus.
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, mentioned in text pp. 8, 36 and 37, not illus.
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. 1988. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1990, mentioned in text pp. 8, 36 and 37, not illus.
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, London: Thames and Hudson, 1991, mentioned in text pp. 8, 36 and 37, not illus.
- Kingsley, April. The Turning Point: The Abstract Expressionists and the Transformation of American Art. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992, mentioned in text p. 322, not illus.
- Corbett, William. "Excerpt from 'Philip Guston's Late Works: A Memoir.'" Arshile: A Magazine of the Arts (Los Angeles), 1993, mentioned in text p. 150, not illus.
- Shapiro, Michael Edward. "Philip Guston: The War Years." Print Collector's Newsletter, September–October 1994, mentioned in text p. 128, not illus.
- Corbett, William. "Guston's Guston: How One Bold Artist Saw His Place in the Universe." Boston Phoenix, September 23, 1994, section Arts & Entertainment, p. 10, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text p. 68, not illus.
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Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. Reprint, Boston: Da Capo Press, 1997.
, mentioned in text pp. 8, 36 and 37, not illus. - Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, mentioned in text p. 132, not illus.
- Sylvester, David. Interviews with American Artists. London: Chatto and Windus, 2001, mentioned in biographical notes p. 366, not illus.
- Sylvester, David. Interviews with American Artists. New Haven: Yale University Press, January 2002, mentioned in text p. 366, not illus.
- Danto, Arthur C. "The Abstract Impressionist." Nation, December 11, 2003. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, mentioned in text p. 31, not. illus.
- Danto, Arthur Coleman. Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, mentioned in text pp. 132-133 and 138, not illus.
- Botelho, Manuel. Guston em contexto: até ao regresso da figura. Lisbon: Livros Vendaval, 2007, mentioned in text p. 63, not illus.
- Shoemaker, Innis Howe. Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009, mentioned in footnote 5 p. 169, not illus.
- Pfeiffer, Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Philip Guston Das Grosse Spatwerk/Late Works. Exh. cat. Cologne: Strzeleckibooks, 2013, mentioned in text p. 140 (English)/141 (German), not illus.
- Slifkin, Robert. Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, illus. in b&w fig. 36 p. 77
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Munich: Sieveking Verlag; Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. no. 29, illus. in color p. 57 and mentioned in text pp. 12, 58 and 60
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: Un ritratto intimo di Philip Guston. Monza: Johan & Levi, 2017, illus. in color fig. 10 (following p. 64) and mentioned in text pp. 14, 50 and 51
- Mcllhagga, Samuel. "Philip Guston's Controversial Embrace of Figuration Still Shapes His Market." Artsy, November 3, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 16 illus. in color p. 30, illus. in color p. 289 in a reproduction of a magazine clipping and mentioned in text p. 38
- Cooper, Harry, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, and Kate Nesin. Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020, mentioned in text pp. 227 and 228, not illus.
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2023, illus. no. 29, illus. in color p. 57 and mentioned in text pp. 12, 58 and 60
