Catalogue Raisonné

P56.004

Dial, 1956
Oil on canvas
72 x 76 in.
182.9 x 193.0 cm
Signed and dated front lower right: Philip Guston 56
Provenance
Whitney Museum of American Art, Purchase
Exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "Recent Paintings by 7 Americans", September 24, 1956 - October 20, 1956
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Annual Exhibition, Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings", November 14, 1956 - January 06, 1957
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
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", February 24, 1958 - March 22, 1958 
Ford Foundation , New York, NY, "The Ford Foundation Jury Show", November 17, 1958 - December 15, 1958
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, "V Bienal, Estados Unidos, 1959", September 21, 1959 - December 31, 1959
US Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, Venice , Italy, "Quattro Artisti Americani: Guston, Hofmann, Kline, Roszak, XXX Biennale Venezia", June 18, 1960 - October 16, 1960
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, "The Face of the Fifties, Recent Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art", April 12, 1961 - May 28, 1961
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "American Art of Our Century: 30th Anniversary Exhibition", November 15, 1961 - December 10, 1961
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962  Travelled to:
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Sixty Years of American Art", September 17, 1963 - October 20, 1963
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964", June 24, 1964 - September 23, 1964
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, "Colorists 1950-1965", October 15, 1965 - November 21, 1965
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, "Philip Guston, A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945-1965", February 27, 1966 - March 27, 1966 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Art of the United States: 1670-1966", September 28, 1966 - November 27, 1966
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "American Art of the Twentieth Century", June 01, 1967 - September 17, 1967
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Seven Decades of 20th Century Art, Selections from the Permanent Collection", July 15, 1969 - September 28, 1969
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Permanent Collection, 1945 - Present", July 09, 1971 - September 06, 1971
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, "American Painting and Sculpture of the 20th Century", May 20, 1973 - July 15, 1973
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Frank O'Hara: A Poet Among Painters", February 12, 1974 - March 17, 1974
Miami-Dade Community College--South Campus, Miami, FL, "Abstract Expressionism: Works from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art", March 08, 1976 - April 01, 1976
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, "American Paintings 1900-1976, Abstract Expressionism and Later Movements, 1955 - 1976", May 28, 1976 - July 17, 1976
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "30 Years of American Art: 1945-1975, Selections from the Permanent Collection I", January 01, 1977 - May 01, 1977
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "30 Years of American Art, 1945-1975 (Part II): Selections from the Permanent Collection", May 06, 1977 - July 24, 1977
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL, "American Art, 1934-1956: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art", April 24, 1978 - June 11, 1978 Travelled to:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980  Travelled to:
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, "Amerikanische Malerei: 1930 - 1980", November 14, 1981 - January 31, 1982
Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, NY, "Twentieth-Century American Art", February 13, 1986 - April 15, 1987
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, "Abstract Expressionism The Critical Developments", September 19, 1987 - November 29, 1987
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Vital Signs", April 28, 1988 - July 10, 1988
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "American Life in American Art, Selections from the Permanent Collection", July 11, 1991 - January 05, 1992
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art", June 28, 1995 - October 18, 1995 Travelled to:
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "An American Story", March 20, 1996 - September 29, 1996
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3 - American Realities", July 11, 1997 - October 05, 1997
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "The American Century, Art & Culture 1900 - 2000, Part II 1950 - 2000", September 26, 1999 - February 13, 2000
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH, "Abstraction at Mid-Century: Major Works from the Whitney Museum of American Art", March 31, 2001 - June 17, 2001 Travelled to:
Palazzo Reale, Naples, Italy, "New York Renaissance: Masterworks from the Whitney Museum of American Art", March 20, 2002 - September 15, 2002
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "De Kooning to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection", October 10, 2002 - March 02, 2003
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003  Travelled to:
Nagasaki Prefectural Museum, Nagaski, Japan, "Picturing America: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art", July 11, 2005 - August 21, 2005 Travelled to:
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Full House: Views of the Whitney's Collection at 75", June 29, 2006 - September 03, 2006
L&M Arts, New York, NY, "Philip Guston 1954-1958", January 15, 2009 - February 28, 2009 
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid, Madrid, Spain, "Monet y la abstracción", February 23, 2010 - May 30, 2010 Travelled to:
Palazzo Reale, Naples, Italy, "Pollock and the Irascibles: The New York School", September 24, 2013 - February 16, 2014
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France, "Nymphéas. L'abstraction américaine et le dernier Monet" (The Water Lilies. American Abstract Painting and the last Monet)", April 13, 2018 - August 20, 2018
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022  Travelled to:
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