Catalogue Raisonné

P64.010

The Day, 1964
Oil on canvas
77 x 80 in.
195.6 x 203.2 cm
Unsigned, undated; inscribed on reverse: 11 (crossed out)/PHILIP GUSTON/"THE DAY" (underlined) 1964/OIL 77 x 80 (underlined)
Provenance
Private Collection
Private Collection
Auction: Christie's, New York, Rockefeller Plaza, Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale Session II, May 14, 2015, Lot 533
Collection of Ann and Graham Gund
Exhibitions
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, Recent Paintings and Drawings", January 12, 1966 - February 13, 1966 
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, "Philip Guston", February 15, 1967 - March 26, 1967 
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, "Three Artists of Today, Philip Guston, Conrad Marca-Relli, James Rosati", April 14, 1967 - May 14, 1967
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, "[Unknown Title]", June 1970
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, "A Selection of American Art: the Skowhegan School 1946-1976", June 16, 1976 - September 05, 1976 Travelled to:
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, MA, "New England Connections", November 1978 - January 1979
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection", February 09, 1982 - April 04, 1982
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Reflections of Monet", September 1998 - January 1999
Mnuchin Gallery, New York, NY, "Guston/Morandi/Scully", September 08, 2022 - October 15, 2022
Bibliography
Guston, Philip. "Faith, Hope and Impossibility." ARTnews Annual XXXI 1966, October 1965, pp. 101–3, 152–53, illus. in color p. 102
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. 24 illus. in color on cover
Three Artists of Today: Philip Guston, Conrad Marca-Relli, James Rosati. Exh. cat. Waterville: Colby College Art Museum, 1967, unnumbered catalog, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1967, cat. no. 9, illus. in color on center fold-out page (unpaginated)
Hunter, Sam. American Art of the 20th Century. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1973, illus. in color Plate 431 p. 237, indexed as Dawn
A Selection of American Art: the Skowhegan School, 1946-1976. Exh. cat. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1976, illus.
Brown, Milton Wolf. American Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts, Photography. Milton Wolf Brown and Theresa Brakeley, eds. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1979, illus. in b&w plate 526 and mentioned in text p. 491
A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection. Exh. cat. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1982, illus. in color p. 93
Slifkin, Robert. Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, illus. in b&w fig. 5 p. 21
Guston Morandi Scully. Exh. cat. New York: Mnuchin Gallery, 2022, illus. in color p. 61 and mentioned in text p. 16