Catalogue Raisonné

P60.001

Traveller II, 1960
Oil on canvas
65 x 73 in.
165.1 x 185.4 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: "TRAVELLER" II (underlined)/ 1960/ 65 x 73/ PHILIP GUSTON
Provenance
Private Collection, New York
Auction: Sothebys, New York, Contemporary Art Morning Sale, May 11, 2011, Lot 132
The Onnasch Collection, Germany
John Kluge, Charlottesville
Exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "9 American Painters", April 04, 1960 - April 23, 1960
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "New Paintings by Philip Guston", February 13, 1961 - March 11, 1961 
Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Philip Guston, Franz Kline", April 03, 1961 - April 29, 1961 
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962  Travelled to:
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, Recent Paintings and Drawings", January 12, 1966 - February 13, 1966 
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, "Philip Guston, A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945-1965", February 27, 1966 - March 27, 1966 
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, "1969 Fine Arts Festival Exhibitions Inaugurating the Opening of the Museum of Art", May 05, 1969 - July 15, 1969
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, "The Onnasch Collection: Aspects of Contemporary Art", November 08, 2001 - January 20, 2002
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, "La Coleccion MACBA", July 06, 2005 - September 26, 2005
Grimaldi Forum Monaco, Monaco, "New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video", July 14, 2006 - September 10, 2006
Bibliography
Ashton, Dore. "Art: 9 Abstract Leaders: Sidney Janis Gallery Shows Works by Major Figures in the Movement." The New York Times, April 5, 1960, mentioned in text, not illus.
9 American Painters. Exh. cat. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1960, cat. no. 8, illus. in b&w
Langsner, Jules. "Los Angeles Letter." Art International, June–August 1961, pp. 64–65, illus. p. 65
Ashton, Dore. "Philip Guston." Metro, 1961, pp. 33–41, no. 14 illus. in b&w p. 41
Philip Guston/Franz Kline. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Dwan Gallery, 1961, cat. no. 1, not illus.
Seuphor, Michel. Abstract Painting: Fifty Years of Accomplishment from Kandinsky to the Present. New York: Abrams, 1961, no. 363, illus. in color p. 217 (reproduced sideways)
Berkson, Bill. "Art Chronicle." Kulchur, Autumn 1962, pp. 30–40, mentioned in text p. 37, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 73, not illus.
Guston, Philip, Harold Rosenberg, and Jewish Museum. Philip Guston: Recent Paintings and Drawings. Introduction by Sam Hunter. Exh. cat. New York: Jewish Museum, 1965, cat. no. 2, illus. in b&w
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. 21, listed as "Traveler II"
1969 Fine Arts Festival Exhibitions. Exh. cat. Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1969, cat. no. 62, illus. in b&w p. 32
Onnasch: Aspects of Contemporary Art, Aspectos da Arte Contemporânea. Exh. cat. Barcelona: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, 2001, illus. in color p. 65
New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video. Exh. cat. Milan: Skira, 2006, cat. no. 16 illus. in color p. 82
Dwan Gallery: Los Angeles to New York, 1959–1971. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.; London: National Gallery of Art; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016, mentioned in text p. 292, not illus.