Catalogue Raisonné
P49.001
Oil on canvas
39½ x 59 in.
100.3 x 149.9 cm
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON "REVIEW" (underlined) 1948-49 (partially obscured)/"40x59" (underlined)/N.F.S.
- Provenance
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, Bequest of Musa Guston, 1992.86.2
- Exhibitions
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "1950 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting", November 10, 1950 - December 31, 1950
- University Galleries, University of Nebraska, Morrill Hall, Lincoln, NE, "Nebraska Art Association Sixty-First Annual Exhibition", March 04, 1951 - April 01, 1951
- University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, "40 American Painters, 1940-1950", June 04, 1951 - August 30, 1951
- Peridot Gallery, New York, NY, "Paintings 1948-1951 by Philip Guston", January 02, 1952 - January 26, 1952
- University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, "The Artist's Viewpoint", July 07, 1952 - July 28, 1952
- Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, "Painters' Choice -- An Exhibition of Contemporary American Pictures Selected by their Makers", November 06, 1952 - December 14, 1952
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962 Travelled to:
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, "New York School The First Generation Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s", June 18, 1965 - August 01, 1965
- Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, "Philip Guston, A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945-1965", February 27, 1966 - March 27, 1966
- Skidmore College, Schick Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY, "Philip Guston: Early and Late Works", October 15, 1987 - November 15, 1987
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989 Travelled to:
- University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties", January 25, 1997 - March 16, 1997 Travelled to:
- Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", September 02, 1999 - November 01, 1999 Travelled to:
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "In the Tower: Philip Guston", February 01, 2009 - September 13, 2009
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022
- Bibliography
- 1950 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1950, cat. no. 56, not illus.
- 40 American Painters, 1940–1950. Exh. cat. Minneapolis: The University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1951, cat. no. 30, illus. in b&w, loaned by Peridot Gallery, listed as being done in 1950
- Nebraska Art Association Sixty-First Annual. Exh. cat. Lincoln: University Galleries, University of Nebraska, 1951, cat. no. 68, not illus.
- Chanin, A. L. "Controversial Show by Philip Guston." New York Compass, January 6, 1952, p. 24, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Worcester Art Museum, News Bulletin
and Calendar. "Painters' Choice: An Exhibition of Contemporary American Pictures Selected by Their Makers." November 1952, unnumbered catalog, not illus., lent by the artist, shown as being done in 1950 - Ashton, Dore. Philip Guston. New York: Grove, 1960, illus. in b&w p. 33 (unpaginated)
- Berkson, Bill. "Art Chronicle." Kulchur, Autumn 1962, pp. 30–40, mentioned in text p. 36, not illus.
- Alloway, Lawrence. "Notes on Guston." Art Journal, Fall 1962, pp. 8–11, mentioned in text p. 9, not illus.
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 9, illus. in color p. 51
- Russell, John. "The World of Art: Beyond Nature." Sunday Times (London), January 20, 1963, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Nordland, Gerald. "Review at Mid-Life." Frontier, July 1963, pp. 23–25, mentioned in text p. 24, not illus.
- Tuchman, Maurice. New York School, The First Generation: Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s. Paperback ed. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society Art Library, 1965, cat. no. 41, illus. in b&w p. 77
- Tuchman, Maurice. New York School, The First Generation: Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1965, cat. no. 37, illus. in b&w p. 102
- Philip Guston: A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945–1965. Exh. brochure. Waltham: The Poses Institute of Fine Arts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1966, cat. no. 4, listed as being from 1948-49
- Sandler, Irving. The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism. New York: Praeger, 1970, illus. in b&w p. 263 and mentioned in text p. 264
- Tuchman, Maurice, ed. New York School: The First Generation. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1971, illus. in b&w no. 41, p. 77
- Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text p. 10
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 17 p. 21 and mentioned in text pp. 22-23
- Philip Guston: Early and Late Works. Exh. cat. Saratoga Springs: Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, 1987, cat. no. 2-P, not illus.
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, mentioned in text p. 48, not illus.
- Degener, Patricia. "Retrospective of Philip Guston's Paintings Shows 'A Life Lived.'" St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 10, 1989, p. 4C, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Brandenburg, John. "Seeing Guston's Art Requires a 'Leap' to Dallas." Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK), December 24, 1989, section Travel & Entertainment, p. 4, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura. Exh. cat. Essays by Mark Rosenthal, Robert Storr, Carrie Rickey, Francisco Calvo Serraller, and Dore Ashton. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, Centro Nacional de Exposiciones, 1989, cat. no. 8, illus. in color p. 39
- Anfam, David. Abstract Expressionism. London: Thames & Hudson, 1990, illus. in color no. 118 p. 153 and mentioned in text p. 140
- Philip Guston in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Exh. cat. Essay by Robert Storr. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1992, mentioned in text pp. 10 & 17, not illus.
- 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 (not in exhibition)
- Mack, Gerhard. "Philip Guston Künstler." Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst 36, no. 3 (1997): pp. 1–16, mentioned in text p. 3, not illus.
- Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties. Exh. cat. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1997, Paintings cat. no. 14, illus. in color p. 34
- Cooper, Harry. "Philip Guston: Paintings 1947–1979." Artforum, December 1999, mentioned in text p. 143, not illus.
- Schreier, Christoph, Michael Auping, and Martin Hentschel. Philip Guston: Gemalde 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1999, unnumbered catalogue, illus. in color p. 62
- Leydier, Richard. "Philip Guston l'heretique/The Heresies of Philip Guston." Art Press, October 2000, pp. 36–41, mentioned p. 39, not illus.
- Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, illus. in color p. 62 and mentioned in text pp. 17, 33-34
- Sylvester, David. Interviews with American Artists. London: Chatto and Windus, 2001, mentioned in biographical notes p. 366, not illus
- 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. 1, illus. in color p. 76, mentioned in text p. 77
- Anfam, David. "Telling Tales: Philip Guston in Retrospect." Artforum International, May 2003, pp. 132–39, 192, mentioned in text p. 136, not illus.
- Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in b&w, Figure 4, p. 38, mentioned in text pp. 38-39
- Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. New York: American Academy in Rome; New York Review of Books, 2014, mentioned in text pp. 10, 11 and 85
- Storr, Robert. "Philip Guston: Hilarious and Horrifying." New York Review of Books, March 8, 2015. Online, 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 29 p. 50 and mentioned in text pp. 43, 210-211, 213, 228 and 246n11
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 34 illus. in color p. 43 and mentioned in text p. 41
- Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2021, illus. in color p. 31 and mentioned in text p. 28
