Catalogue Raisonné

P76.015

Wharf, 1976
Oil on canvas
80 x 116 in.
203.2 x 294.6 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Provenance
Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Museum Purchase, The Friends of Art Endowment Fund
Collection of Gerald Elliott, Chicago
Exhibitions
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, "American Painting of the 1970s", December 08, 1978 - January 14, 1979 Travelled to:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980  Travelled to:
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982  Travelled to:
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth", December 14, 2002 - March 09, 2003
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003  Travelled to:
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection exhibition", May 16, 2004 - February 09, 2005
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection exhibition", June 07, 2006 - August 21, 2006
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection exhibition", July 06, 2007 - September 18, 2007
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection exhibition", January 15, 2008 - January 28, 2008
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection exhibition", June 04, 2008 - August 21, 2008
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "The Collection and Then Some", November 07, 2008 - May 31, 2009
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection and Then Some, phase II", January 22, 2009 - June 15, 2009
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection exhibition", May 25, 2010 - September 07, 2010
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection and Then Some", April 26, 2011 - August 29, 2011
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Ten Years", November 22, 2012 - August 12, 2013
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022  Travelled to:
Bibliography
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American Painting of the 1970s. Exh. cat. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1978, illus. in color p. 29
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