Catalogue Raisonné

P50.001
Oil on canvas
34⅛ x 62¼ in.
86.7 x 158.1 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
- Provenance
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Bequest of the artist
- Exhibitions
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America", January 23, 1951 - March 25, 1951
- Peridot Gallery, New York, NY, "Paintings 1948-1951 by Philip Guston", January 02, 1952 - January 26, 1952
- Signa Gallery, East Hampton, NY, "The Artists' Vision: 1948-1958", May 30, 1958 - July 19, 1958
- 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
- University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, "Six Painters: Mondrian, Guston, Kline, De Kooning, Pollock, Rothko", February 23, 1967 - April 02, 1967
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art including promised gifts", June 18, 1969 - October 05, 1969
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980 Travelled to:
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Reinstallation of the Painting & Sculpture Collection", November 21, 1985 - March 27, 1986
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Selections from the Permanent Collection, Painting and Sculpture", October 25, 1989 - February 21, 1990
- East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East Hampton, NY, "East Hampton Avant-Garde: A Salute to the Signa Gallery 1957-1960", August 12, 1990 - September 23, 1990
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Works from the Collection", May 28, 1992 - July 26, 1992
- McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Paintings from the Fifties", April 22, 1995 - June 03, 1995
- 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:
- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003 Travelled to:
- High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, "Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913>>2013", October 13, 2012 - January 20, 2013
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022
- Bibliography
- The Artists' Vision: 1948–1958. Exh. cat. East Hampton: Signa Gallery, 1958, unnumbered catalog, not illus., shown as "Painting No. 1", dated 1948
- Ashton, Dore. Philip Guston. New York: Grove, 1960, illus. in b&w p. 33 (unpaginated), listed as "Painting"
- Newsweek. "Art: Long Journey." May 7, 1962, p. 94, mentioned in text, not illus.
- 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. 11, illus. in b&w p. 53, shown as "Red Painting"
- Russell, John. "The World of Art: Beyond Nature." Sunday Times (London), January 20, 1963, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Lynton, Norbert. "London Letter." Art International, February 25, 1963, pp. 68–71, mentioned in text p. 69, 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. 42, illus. in b&w p. 78
- 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. 38, illus. in b&w p. 103
- 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. 5
- Six Painters: Mondrian, Guston, Kline, De Kooning, Pollock, Rothko. Exh. cat. Houston: University of St. Thomas Art Department, 1967, cat. no. 12, illus. in color p. 34, shown as "Red Painting"
- The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation, from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Including Promised Gifts. Brochure. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1969, cat. no. 36, not illus.
- Tuchman, Maurice, ed. New York School: The First Generation. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1971, illus. in b&w no. 42, p. 78
- Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 100
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 17, illus. in b&w plate 18 p. 62
- Hill, Andrea. "No Picnic: Philip Guston at the Whitney." Artscribe, August 1981, pp. 19–21, mentioned in text p. 21, not illus.
- 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
- Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, mentioned in text p. 61 as part of Chronology, not illus.
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in b&w no. 19 p. 23 and mentioned in text pp. 23 and 25
- Bellos, Alexandra. "Artist's Tale: Guston's Daughter Tells His Story... and Hers." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 8, 1989, pp. 4G, 10G, 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, illus. in b&w p. 25, no. 8 (Robert Storr essay)
- East Hampton Avant-Garde: A Salute to the Signa Gallery, 1957–1960: Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East Hampton, New York, 12 August–23 September 1990. Exh. cat. [East Hampton]: Guild Hall of East Hampton, 1990, cat. no. 23, illus. in b&w p. 32
- Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 100
- Anfam, David. Abstract Expressionism. London: Thames & Hudson, 1990, mentioned in text p. 155, not illus.
- Kingsley, April. The Turning Point: The Abstract Expressionists and the Transformation of American Art. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992, illus. in color, color plates section and mentioned in text pp. 322-323
- 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, illus. in color p. 6
- Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text p. 27, not illus.
- Smith, Roberta. "A Philip Guston Decade Colored by Red and Pink." New York Times, April 28, 1995, section C, p. 32, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Philip Guston: Paintings from the Fifties. Exh. cat. New York: McKee Gallery, 1995, cat. no. 1, illus. in color (no page #)
- Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties. Exh. cat. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1997, Paintings cat. no. 15, illus. in color p. 35, listed as "Red Painting"
- American Visions. "Program 8: 1970–Present." Written and presented by Robert Hughes. BBC, Planet 24 Productions, Time, WNET Channel 13 New York, 1997. Television documentary series.
- Mack, Gerhard. "Philip Guston Künstler." Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst 36, no. 3 (1997): pp. 1–16, mentioned in text p. 3, not illus.
- Herzog, Samuel. "Stiller Abscheid vom Absoluten, Ausstellung Philip Guston im Kunstmuseum Bonn." Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich), October 15, 1999, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Cooper, Harry. "Philip Guston: Paintings 1947–1979." Artforum, December 1999, mentioned in text p. 143, not illus.
- Anfam, David. "Bonn, Philip Guston." Burlington Magazine, December 1999, pp. 767-78, mentioned in text p. 767, 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. 63
- Ottinger, Didier, and Philip Roth. Philip Guston: Peintures 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2000, illus. in color p. 50
- Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, illus. in color p. 63 and mentioned in text p. 33
- Sylvester, David. Interviews with American Artists. London: Chatto and Windus, 2001, mentioned in biographical notes p. 366, not illus.
- Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 23, unpaginated (but would be p. 121) and mentioned in text p. 39
- Rubinstein, Raphael. "Philip Guston: Some Thoughts." Art in America, March 2004, mentioned in text p. 87, not illus.
- Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, detail illus. in color pp. 18-19 and mentioned in text pp. 26, 83 and 86
- Tinterow, Gary, Lisa Mintz Messinger, and Nan Rosenthal, eds. Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007, mentioned in text p. 83, not illus.
- Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, mentioned in text pp. 152 and 215, not illus.
- Yau, John. "Philip Guston's Line." Hyperallergic, March 24, 2013. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Slifkin, Robert. Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, illus. in color plate 17
- Pfeiffer, Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Philip Guston Das Grosse Spatwerk/Late Works. Exh. cat. Cologne: Strzeleckibooks, 2013, mentioned in text p. 142 (English)/143 (German), not illus.
- 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.
- Laster, Paul. "Philip Guston: A Life Lived Through Art." Art & Object (Chapel Hill), July 21, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Troncy, Éric. "Philip Guston L'Art De Se Réinventer." Numéro, November 2020, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Troncy, Eric. "Polémique: pourquoi la rétrospective Philip Guston fait-elle scandale ?" Numéro (Paris), November 19, 2020. Online., mentioned in text, not illus.
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 35 illus. in color pp. 44-45 and mentioned in text pp. 41 and 294
- 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 30 p. 51 and mentioned in text pp. 43, 211, 228 and 229
- Marcus, J.S. "Controversially postponed Philip Guston show finally gets going. How has it changed?" Art Newspaper, April 26, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Whyte, Murray. "The MFA recast artist Philip Guston amid a nationwide racial reckoning -- here's the result." Boston Globe, April 28, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Hoffman, A.R. "Guston: A Genius Beyond Controversy." New York Sun, May 7, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- 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
- Guston, Philip. I Paint What I Want To See. Penguin Classics, 2022, mentioned in text p. 84, not illus.