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P75.030

Web, 1975
Oil on canvas
67 x 97¼ in.
170.2 x 247.0 cm
Unsigned, undated
Provenance
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Edward R. Broida
Edward R. Broida
Exhibitions
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980  Travelled to:
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", July 20, 1980 - September 09, 1980
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", November 12, 1980 - January 11, 1981
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", February 25, 1981 - April 26, 1981
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", June 24, 1981 - September 13, 1981
The Hoyt L. Sherman Gallery, University Gallery of Fine Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, "Painters' Painters: Milton Avery, Philip Guston, Giorgio Morandi", March 26, 1984 - April 15, 1984
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", August 17, 1984 - September 16, 1984  Travelled to:
The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", September 26, 1984 - October 28, 1984
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", November 07, 1984 - December 30, 1984
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989  Travelled to:
Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", May 25, 1989 - July 16, 1989
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", September 09, 1989 - October 22, 1989
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", November 19, 1989 - January 14, 1990
Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany, "Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit, Painting for themselves: Late Works", October 20, 1996 - February 07, 1997
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, "The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works", March 12, 1998 - June 21, 1998
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "Contemporary Art and Photography: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston", September 30, 2001 - March 31, 2002
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003  Travelled to:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston Retrospective", June 28, 2003 - September 27, 2003
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Retrospective", October 27, 2003 - January 04, 2004
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, "The Art of Philip Guston: 1913-1980", January 24, 2004 - April 12, 2004
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection", May 03, 2006 - July 10, 2006
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, "Paint Made Flesh", January 23, 2009 - May 10, 2009 Travelled to:
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., "Paint Made Flesh", June 20, 2009 - September 13, 2009
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, "Paint Made Flesh", October 24, 2009 - January 03, 2010
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, "Philip Guston - das große Spätwerk", November 06, 2013 - February 02, 2014  Travelled to:
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, "Philip Guston - Das Grosse Spätwerk", February 22, 2014 - May 25, 2014
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022  Travelled to:
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "Philip Guston Now", October 23, 2022 - January 15, 2023
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston Now", March 02, 2023 - August 27, 2023
Tate Modern, London, England, "Philip Guston", October 05, 2023 - February 25, 2024
Bibliography
Rickey, Carrie. "Philip Guston 1913–1980: Dreaming with His Eyes Open." Village Voice, June 23, 1980, p. 73, mentioned in text, not illus.
Rickey, Carrie. "Gust, Gusto, Guston." Artforum, October 1980, pp. 32–39, illus. in color p. 35 and mentioned in text p. 39
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 63, illus. in color plate 54 p. 97
Kachur, Lewis. "Philip Guston." Arts Magazine, January 1981, p. 9, mentioned in text, not illus.
King, Mary. "The Guston Retrospective: A 'Grim Mirror to Our Time.'" St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 1, 1981, section Music, the Arts, p. 5G, mentioned in text, not illus.
Perreault, John. "Guston Winds." SoHo Weekly News, July 8, 1981, p. 51, mentioned in text, not illus.
Larson, Kay. "Painting From Ground Zero." New York, July 20, 1981, pp. 58–59, mentioned in text p. 59, not illus.
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, illus. in b&w p. 56
Cramer, Sue. "Guston's Heroic Calm in the Face of the Last Gasp of Modernism." Age (Melbourne), September 5, 1984, mentioned in text, not illus.
Maloon, Terence. "'Bad' Paintings the Board Chairman Would Never Hang in His Office." Sydney Morning Herald, November 12, 1984, mentioned in text, not illus.
Painters' Painters: Milton Avery, Philip Guston, Giorgio Morandi. Exh. cat. Columbus: University Gallery of Fine Art, The Ohio State University, 1984, cat. no. 12, not illus.
Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, cat. no. 19, illus. in color p. 34
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in text p. 88, not illus.
Welish, Marjorie. "I Confess: The Drawings of Philip Guston." Arts Magazine, November 1988, pp. 46–50, mentioned in text p. 50, not illus.
Gallego, Julian. "El gusto de Guston." ABC (Madrid), March 2, 1989, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Ottinger, Didier. Philip Guston (1913–1980) Oeuvres Sur Papier 1975–1980. Exh. cat. Les Sables d'Olonne: Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix des Sables d'Olonne, France, 1995, illus. in color no page # (not in exhibition)
Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit. Exh. cat. Bremen: Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, 1996, cat. no. 2, illus. in color p. 106 and mentioned in text pp. 80 & 96
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Welish, Marjorie. "The Art of Philip Guston." In Signifying Art: Essays on Art After 1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, mentioned in text pp. 149 and 156, not illus.
Corbett, William. "Agreeing to Disagree, Ross Feld Explores the Tumult of Philip Guston." Boston Phoenix, October 3, 2003, section Arts, p. 16, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
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Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 96, unpaginated
Feld, Ross. Erinnerungen an Philip Guston Mit dem Briefwechsel zwischen Feld und Guston. Kippenheim-Schmieheim: Verlag Kurt Liebig, 2003, illus. in color p. 32
Feld, Ross. Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003, illus. in b&w (no page #) and mentioned in text pp. 32-33 and 103
Philip Guston: Odd Man Out. BBC Four, January 28, 2004. Television, detail illus. in color
Rubinstein, Raphael. "Philip Guston: Some Thoughts." Art in America, March 2004, mentioned in text p. 90, not illus.
Zaller, Robert. "The Abandoned Studio: Philip Guston's Gnostic Testament." Boulevard 20, no. 2-3 (2005): pp. 100–18, illus. in b&w p. 122 and mentioned in text pp. 114-115
Posnock, Ross. Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity. Princeton: Princeton University, 2006, mentioned in text p. 244, not illus.
Elderfield, John, and Ann Temkin. Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2006, no cat. #, not illus.
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, color detail on front cover and color detail pp. 50-51. Also mentioned in text pp. 49, 61, 64 - 68, 84, 102, 128 and 135
Scala, Mark W., ed. Paint Made Flesh. Exh. cat. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2009, illus. in color p. 86
Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Philip Guston Roma. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010, mentioned in text p. 46 as "The Web" (Peter Benson Miller essay), not illus.
de Loisy, Jean. "The Space Beyond The Object." In Monumenta 2011: Anish Kapoor. Exh. cat. Paris: Grand Palais, 2011, illus. in color p. 14
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Sylvester, David. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. NichtSoKleineBibliothek 8. Bern: Piet Meyer Verlag, 2013, illus. in color p. 84, illus. no. 33
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Martin Puryear: Big Bling. New York: Madison Square Park Conservancy, 2016, Fig. 10, illus. in color p. 22, mentioned in text pp. 22-23
Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, mentioned in text p. 78, not illus.
Walker, Deborah. "Enigmas in Philip Guston's de Chirico City." Double Dialogues (Canterbury, Australia), Spring 2018. Online, illus. in color as "Web," but incorrectly mentioned in text as "Spider's Web"
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Wullschläger, Jackie. "Philip Guston, Tate Modern review — violent, unsettling and thrilling from start to finish." Financial Times, October 5, 2023. Online.
, mentioned in text, not illus.
Wullschläger, Jackie. "Violent and unsettling." FT Weekend (London), October 7-8, 2023, section Arts, pp. 14-15., mentioned in text p. 15, not illus.
Kellaway, Dave. "Philip Guston (1913-1980) Bearing Witness to Brutality and Injustice." Anti-Capitalist Resistance, February 3, 2024. Online, illus. in color