Catalogue Raisonné

P55.002

The Room, 1954-55
Oil on canvas
71⅞ x 60 in.
182.6 x 152.4 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Provenance
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum Purchase, Contemporary Art Council Fund M.63.36
Mrs. Leo Castelli, New York
Exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "Recent Paintings Philip Guston", February 06, 1956 - March 03, 1956 
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "12 Americans", May 29, 1956 - September 09, 1956
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, "IV Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna, de São Paulo", September 22, 1957 - December 31, 1957
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, "Die Neue Amerikanische Malerei", April 19, 1958 - May 26, 1958 Travelled to:
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, "V Bienal, Estados Unidos, 1959", September 21, 1959 - December 31, 1959
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, "60 American Painters: 1960, Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Sixties", April 03, 1960 - May 08, 1960
Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "15 of New York", October 10, 1960 - November 15, 1960
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, "American Painting in Our Time", December 09, 1960 - January 15, 1961
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
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, "Colorists 1950-1965", October 15, 1965 - November 21, 1965
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, "Fifty Years of Modern Art 1916-1966", June 14, 1966 - July 31, 1966
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, "Ten Years of Contemporary Art Council Acquisitions", December 19, 1972 - March 04, 1973
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. , "Art from the Vice President's House", [Unknown Date] 1981 - May 5, 1981
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, "Selections from the Permanent Collection - 20th Century", February 07, 1985 - March 10, 1985
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989  Travelled to:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, "Gestures: Postwar American and European Abstraction from the Permanent Collection", October 10, 1999 - January 02, 2000
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, "Philip Guston Peintures 1947 - 1979", September 13, 2000 - December 04, 2000 
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003  Travelled to:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, "Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971", March 19, 2017 - September 10, 2017
Bibliography
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Ashton, Dore. "Art: The Age of Lyricism" Arts & Architecture, March 1956, pp. 14–15, 43–44, mentioned in text p. 43, not illus.
Steinberg, Leo. "Month in Review: Fritz Glarner and Philip Guston among 'Twelve Americans' at the Museum of Modern Art." Arts, June 1956, pp. 42–45, mentioned in text p. 44, not illus.
Miller, Dorothy C., ed. 12 Americans. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1956, unnumbered catalog, illus. in b&w p. 40, shown as "The Room"
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