Paintings

Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mother and Child, c.1930
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Nude Philosopher in Space-Time, 1935
Private Collection
Sunday Interior, 1941
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Musa McKim, 1942
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sanctuary, 1944
University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. Clarence Van Epps, 1947.24
Young Mother, 1944
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ceremony, 1946
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Festival of Arts Purchase Fund 1948-10-1
The Porch, 1946
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1950
Performers, 1947
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Bequest of Musa Guston, 1992.86.2
Review, 1948-49
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
Painting No. 6, 1951
Seattle Art Museum, Gift of the Friday Foundation in honor of Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis, 2020.14.10
To B.W.T., 1952
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Lawrence Sophian, 1990
#5, 1952
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Philip Johnson Fund
Painting, 1954
Collection SFMOMA, Anonymous gift, Los Angeles
For M., 1955
Whitney Museum of American Art, Purchase
Dial, 1956
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Michael and Dorothy Blankfort Bequest, AC1999.35.24. photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Hester, 1957
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Acquired 1958
Native's Return, 1957
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1961.21
Sleeper, 1958
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Gift of William Inge. Photo: Tiffany Matson
Canal, 1958
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, Gift of Algie Hill Neill in memory of her husband, John H. Neill, Jr.
Road, 1959
University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, Purchased with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and a matching donation by Mrs. Oral Sebelin, 1973.29
Edge, 1960
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Purchase Fund
Table, 1960
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Acquired with funding from The C.L. David Foundation and Collection
Mirror - To S.K., 1960
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Duo, 1961
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Purchase with funds from the lottery fund of the canton of Zurich 1993, inv. no. 1565
Untitled, 1962
Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University Art Collection, Anonymous gift, 1966
Dark Form, 1963
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Two, 1963
Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Museum purchase, The Friends of Art Endowment Fund
The Light, 1964
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio; Bequest of Musa Guston
Air I, 1965
The Art Institute of Chicago, Anonymous gift
Portrait II, 1965
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio; Bequest of Musa Guston
Untitled, 1968
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Untitled, 1968
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Untitled, 1968
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Musa Guston. Photo: Imaging Department © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Untitled, 1968
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Untitled, 1968
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Untitled (City), 1968
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Untitled (Head and Wall), 1969
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon. Bequest of Musa Guston
Untitled, 1969
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Seventy-fifth anniversary gift of Agnes Gund, 1991.28
Tour, 1969
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Gift of Mrs. Philip Guston and Musa Jane Mayer
Central Avenue, 1969
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Musa Guston
City Limits, 1969
Hugh Lane Gallery, Presented by the Conlon Family through Section 1003, Taxes Consolidation Act, 2005, Reg. No. 1985
Outskirts, 1969
The Dayton Art Institute, Bequest of Musa Guston, 1992.15
Pamphili - Roma, 1971
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rome Garden, 1971
Private Collection
Untitled, 1971
The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Bequest of Musa Guston, 1992.14. photography by Leah Stearns
Untitled (Books and Window), 1971
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Bequest of Musa Guston, 1992
Untitled, 1971
Collection Unknown
Language I, 1973
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pantheon, 1973
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Bequest of Musa Guston
Collection, 1973
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Smoking I, 1973
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, purchased with the generous support of the Vereniging Rembrandt and Mrs. Musa Guston, Woodstock, NY, 1983
Painting, Smoking, Eating, 1973
Dallas Museum of Art, Bequest of Musa Guston
Pink Summer, 1975
Saint Louis Art Museum, Funds given by the Shoenberg Foundation, Inc. and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shoenberg, by exchange 8:1990
Allegory, 1975
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Edward R. Broida
Web, 1975
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Edward R. Broida
Deluge II, 1975
San Antonio Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Brown Foundation
Ocean, 1976
Honolulu Museum of Art, Bequest of Musa Guston, 1992 (7008.1)
Cherries III, 1976
Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Bequest of Musa Guston, 1992
Bombay, 1976
National Gallery of Canada, Purchased 1999
Room, 1976
Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Musa Guston
Red Cloth, 1976
The Art Institute of Chicago, through prior bequest of Frances W. Pick, and memorial gift from her daughter, Mary P. Hines
Couple in Bed, 1977
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, 50th Anniversary Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Learsy
Cabal, 1977
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Alice Pratt Brown Museum Fund
Legend, 1977
Seattle Art Museum, Bequest of Musa Guston
The Fable, 1977
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Gift of Thomas and Musa Mayer, New York, to American Friends of the Israel Museum
Theme, 1978
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the A. Conger Goodyear and Elizabeth Bliss Parkinson Funds and gift of the artist.
Tomb, 1978
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Edward R. Broida, 2005.142.17
The Ladder, 1978
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Musa Guston 1992.212
Scroll, 1978
Philadelphia Museum of Art. Promised gift of Agnes Gund in honor of Joseph Rishel
Entrance, 1979
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Fellows Fund, 80.26
Plain, 1979
Collection Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d'art moderne - Centre de création industrielle
Ravine, 1979
Milwaukee Art Museum, Bequest of Musa Guston M1992.145. Photo credit: Efraim Lev-er
Table Top, 1979
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Musa Guston
East Coker, 1979
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Untitled, 1980
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Untitled, 1980
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Musa Guston
Untitled, 1980

Museum Collections

Philip Guston's paintings and drawings are part of the permanent collections of over 140 museums in the United States and abroad. Listed by city and state or country, Museum Collection pages include all Guston holdings, with access to complete details on every work. Registration is required.

Exhibitions

The art of Philip Guston has been widely shown in museums and galleries. To date, it has been featured in over 130 solo exhibitions all over the world. With the work of other artists, his paintings and drawings have been included in over 1,800 group shows. A searchable exhibition database is on the homepage for the Catalogue Raisonné.

Bibliography

All known published references to Philip Guston's life and works can be found in a searchable bibliographic database found on the homepage for the Catalogue Raisonné. References to specific works are listed on the individual works catalogue entry pages.