Catalogue Raisonné

P77.032

Legend, 1977
Oil on canvas
69 x 78½ in.
175.3 x 199.4 cm
Unsigned, undated
Provenance
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund
Exhibitions
David McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "A Tribute to Philip Guston: Paintings and Drawings from 1950 to 1980", October 11, 1980 - November 12, 1980 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", June 24, 1981 - September 13, 1981 
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, "Philip Guston", February 11, 1986 - April 06, 1986  Travelled to:
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "Direction and Diversity: Twentieth Century Art in the Museum Collection", May 21, 1988 - September 03, 1988
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "Pop Art: The Object Transformed", July 28, 1991 - December 29, 1991
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "Modern and Contemporary Art: Spotlight on the Collection", February 07, 2000 - August 27, 2000
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "Against the Current: 20th Century Representational Art in the Collection of the MFAH", October 07, 2006 - September 02, 2007
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from the MFAH", December 08, 2007 - March 02, 2008
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
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Jenkins, Mark. "At the National Gallery's Philip Guston show, lots to unpack: Postponed in 2020 after controversy erupted over the artist's KKK imagery, 'Philip Guston Now' is remarkable and difficult." Washington Post, April 18, 2023. Online, illus. in color
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Mengüç, Murat Cem. "10 Art Shows to See in Washington, DC, This Summer." Hyperallergic, July 13, 2023. Online, illus. in color
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Smith, Nathan. "Tate Modern Reveals Philip Guston's Hoodwink." Observer (London), November 9, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
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