Catalogue Raisonné

P75.042

Yellow Light, 1975
Oil on canvas
67½ x 96¾ in.
171.4 x 245.8 cm
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, "American Figure Painting 1950 - 1980", October 17, 1980 - November 30, 1980
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston 1975-1980: Private and Public Battles", September 17, 1994 - October 30, 1994 
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", September 02, 1999 - November 01, 1999  Travelled to:
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Die Sammlung: Color and Content", December 15, 2010 - January 01, 2011
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, "Philip Guston - das große Spätwerk", November 06, 2013 - February 02, 2014  Travelled to:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022  Travelled to:
Bibliography
American Figure Painting 1950 - 1980. Exh. cat. Norfolk: Chrysler Museum of Art, 1980, illus. in b&w p. 30 and mentioned in text p. 9
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 57 p. 58
Ablow, Joseph. "Ordered Terror: The Art of Philip Guston." Bostonia Magazine, Fall 1994, pp. 21–26, illus. in color p. 25
McQuaid, Cate. "Battleground: How Philip Guston Fought the War to Create Art." Boston Phoenix, September 23, 1994, section Arts & Entertainment, p. 11, mentioned in text, not illus.
Stapen, Nancy. "Painting as Salvation: Philip Guston Exhibit at Boston University Offers Profound Rewards." Boston Sunday Globe, October 2, 1994, section ArtsEtc., pp. B1, B6, mentioned in text p. B6, not illus.
Sichel, Kim, and Mary Drach McInnes. Philip Guston 1975–1980: Private and Public Battles. Exh. cat. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994, Plate 1, illus. in color p. 43
Haase, Amine. "Die Gewalt der lesbaren Bilder: Spektakulär Deutschland-Premiere des amerikanischen Malers Philip Guston." Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (Cologne), September 2, 1999, mentioned in text, not illus.
Schreier, Christoph, Michael Auping, and Martin Hentschel. Philip Guston: Gemalde 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1999, unnumbered catalog, illus. in color p. 107
Ottinger, Didier, and Philip Roth. Philip Guston: Peintures 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2000, illus. in color p. 70
Philip Guston Peintures 1947-1979. Exh. brochure. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2000, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, illus. in color p. 107 and mentioned in text p. 56
Ringler Jr., Kenneth J., Glenn D. Lowry, and Dennis R. Anderson. The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection and Plaza Memorials. New York: Rizzoli International, 2002, fig. 3, illus. in color p. 77, mentioned in text p. 77
Bookbinder, Judith. Boston Modern: Figurative Expressions as Alternative Modernism. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2005, mentioned in text pp. 256-257, not illus.
(n d ks). "Philip Guston Late Works at Schirn Kunsthalle." November 2013. Online, illus. in color as part of installation photo
Pfeiffer, Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Philip Guston Das Grosse Spatwerk/Late Works. Exh. cat. Cologne: Strzeleckibooks, 2013, illus. in color pp. 46-47 and detail opposite title page and mentioned in text p. 18 (English)/19 (German)
Baker, E. "Frankfurt—Philip Guston: 'Late Works' at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt through February 2nd 2014." AO Art Observed, January 18, 2014. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Belhomme, Guillaume. Une minute, une seule. Les editions derriere la salle de bains, re-editioned 2019, mentioned in text, not illus.
Cooper, Harry, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, and Kate Nesin. Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020, illus. in color Plate 149 p. 145 and mentioned in text p. 200
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 190 illus. in color p. 182 and mentioned in text p. 197
Bowen, Jared. 'Philip Guston Now' portrays art of controversial and confrontational painter. Washington D.C.: PBS News Hour, May 12, 2022. Video, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Fielder, Garland. "Review: 'Philip Guston Now' at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston." Glasstire (Texas), December 6, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Chow, Vivienne. "The Met Now Boasts the World's Largest Collection of Philip Guston's Work, Thanks to a 220-Piece Gift by the Artist's Daughter." artnet News, December 15, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston. Lyon: FAGE éditions, 2022, illus. in color pp. 52-53
Haidu, Rachel. "Shapes, Wholes, History." October 185 (2023): pp. 99-117, illus. in b&w p. 108 as "Yellow Light" and mentioned in text p. 103 as "Yellow Sea"