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Title:Drawing 1960
Artist:Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
Date:1960
Medium:Brush and black ink on paper
Dimensions:17 15/16 × 23 15/16 in. (45.6 × 60.8 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1973
Accession Number:1973.13
Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right, in brush and black ink): P. Guston '60
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1960–73; sold to MMA)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Philip Guston Drawings 1938–1972," July 11–September 4, 1973, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "20th Century Accessions, 1967–1974," March 7–April 23, 1974, no catalogue.
Cambridge. Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters: Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Philip Guston," February 21–March 26, 1975, no. 76 (as "Untitled").
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. "Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters: Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock," January 10–February 29, 1976, unnumbered cat. (as "Untitled").
New York. David McKee Gallery. "Philip Guston: Drawings 1947–1977," October 3–November 4, 1978, no. 17 (as "Drawing").
Atlanta. High Museum of Art. "Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," January 26–April 4, 1993, no. 15.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 4–September 12, 1993, extended to November 7, 1993, no. 15.
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. "Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper, Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 11–June 4, 1995, no. 14.
Madrid. Fundación Juan March. "Expresionismo Abstracto: Obra Sobre Papel, Colección The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York," May 9–July 2, 2000, no. 15.
Lisa Mintz Messinger. Abstract Expressionism, Works on Paper: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., High Museum of Art, Atlanta. New York, 1992, pp. 42, 46–47, fig. 15 (color), states that this work exemplifies the drawings Guston made during the early to mid–1960s, which relate to his paintings and drawings from the 1940s, particularly "Tormentors" (1947–48, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art); also suggests that this picture's forms prefigure the bean–shaped heads in paintings from the 1970s.
Lisa M. Messinger. Expresionismo Abstracto: Obra Sobre Papel, Colección The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York. Exh. cat., Fundación Juan March. Madrid, 2000, pp. 44–46, fig. 15 (color).
Robin Pogrebin. "Met to Receive Trove of Philip Guston's Art." New York Times (December 15, 2022), p. C6.
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1931
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