the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (until d. 1980); his widow, Musa Guston, Woodstock, N. Y. (1980–d. 1992); their daughter, Musa Guston Mayer, New York (from 1992; her promised gift to MMA)
Los Angeles. Stanley Rose Bookstore and Gallery. September 1933, no catalogue.
Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego. "Progressive Painters of Southern California," December 1–31, 1933, no. 12 (artist listed as "Phillip Goldstein").
Los Angeles Museum. "Progressive Painters of Southern California," January 1934, no. 18 (artist listed as "Phil Goldstein").
San Francisco. California Palace of the Legion of Honor. "Progressive Painters of Southern California," February 5–March 4, 1934, no. 14 (artist listed as "Phil Goldstein").
Iowa City. Iowa Memorial Union, University of Iowa. February 1949, no catalogue.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Philip Guston," May 16–June 29, 1980, no. 1 (lent by the artist).
Washington, D. C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. "Philip Guston," July 20–September 9, 1980, no. 1.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. "Philip Guston," November 12, 1980–January 11, 1981, no. 1.
Denver Art Museum. "Philip Guston," February 25–April 26, 1981, no. 1.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Philip Guston," June 24–September 13, 1981, no. 1.
Madrid. Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura," March 1–May 8, 1989, no. 1 (dated 1930, lent by a private collection, New York).
Barcelona. Palau de la Virreina. "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura," May 25–July 16, 1989, no. 1.
Saint Louis Art Museum. "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting," September 9–October 22, 1989, no catalogue.
Dallas Museum of Art. "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting," November 19, 1989–January 14, 1990, no catalogue.
Oakland Museum of California. "Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art, 1934–1957," February 25–June 11, 1995, no. 39 (lent by a private collection; courtesy McKee Gallery, New York).
Los Angeles. UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center. "Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art, 1934–1957," July 11–September 17, 1995, no. 39.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. "Philip Guston Retrospective," March 30–June 8, 2003, no. 2 (dated 1930, lent by a private collection).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Philip Guston Retrospective," June 28–September 27, 2003, no. 2.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Philip Guston Retrospective," October 28, 2003–January 4, 2004, no. 2.
London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Philip Guston Retrospective," January 24–April 12, 2004, no. 2.
Santa Monica Museum of Art. "Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico," September 9–November 25, 2006, unnumbered cat. (pl. 5; dated 1930, lent by a private collection).
Madrid. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. "Encounters with the 1930s," October 2, 2012–January 7, 2013, unnumbered cat. (p. 69; dated 1930, lent by a private collection, Rene McKee, New York).
Venice. Gallerie dell'Accademia. "Philip Guston and the Poets," May 10–September 3, 2017, not in catalogue.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Philip Guston Now," May 1–September 11, 2022, unnumbered cat. (pl. 1; lent by a private collection).
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "Philip Guston Now," October 23, 2022–January 15, 2023, unnumbered cat.
Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. "Philip Guston Now," March 2–August 27, 2023, unnumbered cat.
Katharine Morrison Kahle. "San Diego Art and Artists." San Diego Sun (December 9, 1933), p. 5.
Margaret Breuning. "Philip Guston Impresses in New York Debut." Art Digest 19 (January 15, 1945), p. 12.
"Iowa City Goes All Out for Art." Iowa City Press-Citizen (February 11, 1949), p. 7.
H. H. Arnason. Philip Guston. Exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, 1962, p. 38 n. 3.
William Berkson. "Dialogue with Philip Guston 11/1/64." Art and Literature 7 (Winter 1965), p. 66.
Dore Ashton. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York, 1976, pp. 7, 22, 29, ill. p. 9.
Carrie Rickey. "Gust, Gusto, Guston." Artforum 19 (October 1980), pp. 33–34, ill. p. 36.
"Holland Davies Concert to Be Recorded 'Live' Sunday." Oakland Post (April 24, 1980).
Josine Ianco-Starrels. "Art News." Los Angeles Times (May 18, 1980), p. 90, dates it 1930.
Al Morch. "Impressive Guston Gamut." San Francisco Examiner (May 19, 1980), p. 30, ill., dates it 1930.
Thomas Albright. "A Curious Repertoire of the Guston Imagery." S. F. Sunday Examiner & Chronicle (May 25, 1980), p. 36.
Cathy Curtis. "Philip Guston: One of a Kind." North East Bay Independent & Gazette (Richmond, Calif.) (May 25, 1980).
Harre W. Demoro. "SCM Sponsoring S.F. Modern Art Exhibit with More Than Altruism in Mind." San Francisco Business Journal. May 26, 1980, pp. 14–15, ill.
April Kingsley. "Philip Guston's Endgame." Horizon (June 1980), ill. p. 36 (color).
Cathy Curtis. "Philip Guston: The Continuity of Change." Artweek 11 (June 7, 1980), p. 1, dates it 1930.
Andree M. Workman. "Guston: A Born-Again Painter." West Art (Auburn, Calif.) 18 (June 13, 1980), p. 3.
Mark Stevens. "Diamond in the Rough." Newsweek (June 23, 1980), pp. 88–89.
Suzaan Boettger. "Art for Modern Times." Daily Californian (June 26, 1980), p. 8, dates it 1930.
Thomas Albright. "Philip Guston: 'It's a Strange Thing to Be Immersed in the Culture of Painting...'." Art News 79 (September 1980), p. 114.
Ralph Toucatt. "Metamorphosis: The Art of Philip Guston." Threepenny Review 1 (Fall 1980), p. 24, dates it 1930.
Christopher Lyon. "Reflections on a Mirror." Chicago Reader (November 28, 1980), ill. p. 48.
Alan G. Artner. "At MCA, Philip Guston is Getting the Last Laugh." Chicago Tribune (November 30, 1980), ill. p. 10 (detail).
"Museum To Show Guston Retrospect." Denver Downtown (March 1981), ill. p. 16.
"Whitney's Guston Exhibit Spans Half-Century Career." Greenwich Time (June 27, 1981), p. 17, dates it 1930.
Norbert Lynton inPhilip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Ed. Nicholas Serota. Exh. cat., Whitechapel Art Gallery. London, 1982, p. 11, ill.
Magdalena Dabrowski. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1988, p. 17, dates it 1930.
Musa Mayer. "My Father, Philip Guston." New York Times Magazine (August 7, 1988), p. 58.
F[rancisco]. Calvo Serraller. "Abierta en Madrid una retrospectiva de Guston: En Centro Reina Sofia expone 70 obras del artista que pasó del expresionismo abstracto a la figuración." El País (Madrid) (March 2, 1989), p. 32, dates it 1930.
Iñaki Moreno Ruiz de Eguino. "La primera retrospectiva europea de Philip Guston, en Madrid." Diario Vasco (San Sebastián) (March 11, 1989).
"Una Retrospectiva de Philip Guston." Heraldo de Aragon (Saragossa) (May 26, 1989), ill.
Patricia Degener. "Retrospective of Philip Guston's Paintings Shows 'A Life Lived'." St. Louis Post-Dispatch (September 10, 1989), p. 4C.
John Brandenburg. "Seeing Guston's Art Requires a 'Leap' to Dallas." Oklahoman (December 24, 1989), p. 4, dates it 1930.
Olga Spiegel. "Una completa retrospectiva de la obra pictórica de Guston, inaugurada en la Virreina." La Vanguardia (May 26, 1989), p. 48, dates it 1930.
"El pintor Philip Guston, influenciado por Goya, expone en Barcelona." El Correo De Andalucia (May 27, 1989), ill.
Marie-Claire Uberquoi. "La carrera singular d'un pintor inquiet." Diari de Barcelona (May 27, 1989).
"Philip Guston, en el Virreina." El Punto de las Artes (June 2–8, 1989), p. 12, dates it 1930.
Francesc Miralles. "Guston, la lucha a contracorriente: Se exhibe en Barcelona una retrospectiva del pintor norteamericano." La Vanguardia (June 17, 1989), p. 41.
Dore Ashton. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. 2nd. ed. [1st ed., 1976]. Berkeley, 1990, pp. 7, 22, 29, ill. p. 9, [reprints Ref Ashton 1976].
April Kingsley. The Turning Point: The Abstract Expressionists and the Transformation of American Art. New York, 1992, p. 339.
William Corbett. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Cambridge, Mass., 1994, p. 15, dates it 1930.
Didier Ottinger. Philip Guston (1913–1980): Oeuvres Sur Papier 1975–1980. Exh. cat., Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix. Les Sables-d'Olonne, 1995, pp. 24, 31.
Susan Ehrlich. "Pacific Dreams, Currents of Surrealism & Fantasy." American Art Review 7 (August–September 1995), ill. p. 135 (color).
Henry T. Hopkins inPacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art, 1934–1957. Ed. Susan Ehrlich. Exh. cat., Oakland Museum of California. Los Angeles, 1995, pp. 110, 192, no. 39, ill. p. 111.
Michael Auping inPhilip Guston: Gemälde 1947—1979. Ed. Christoph Schreier et. al. Exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bonn. Ostfildern-Ruit, 1999, pp. 29–30.
Richard Leydier. "Philip Guston l'hérétique/The Heresies of Philip Guston." Art Press no. 261 (October 2000), pp. 36, 38, ill. p. 3 (color), dates it 1930.
Harry Cooper inPhilip Guston A New Alphabet: The Late Transition. Exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, 2000, p. 47, fig. 21 (color).
Marina Lewisch, ed. Philip Guston: Peintures 1947–1979. Exh. cat., Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou. Paris, 2000, p. 81.
Harry Cooper. "Recognizing Guston (In Four Slips)." October 99 (Winter 2002), p. 101 n. 19, pp. 113–14, ill.
Daniel Kunitz. "The Three Faces of Philip Guston." New York Sun (October 30, 2003), ill. (color).
Joseph J. Rishel inPhilip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat., Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Fort Worth, 2003, pp. 75, 237, colorpl. 2.
William Corbett. "Philip Guston in Retrospect." brooklynrail.org. November 2003.
"Philip Guston: Abstract Expressionism's Provocative Pioneer and Ultimate Critic." USA Today (West Babylon, N.Y.) (November 2003), ill. p. 47 (color), dates it 1930.
Michael Auping. "Philip Guston Retrospective." American Art Review 15 (July–August 2003), ill. p. 139 (color), dates it 1930.
Christopher Knight. "The Paint Is the Thing; Through Abstract and Figurative Styles, Philip Guston Emphasized the Material and Ritual Significance of Art." Los Angeles Times (August 23, 2003), p. E18, ill., dates it 1930.
James Lawrence. "Philip Guston: Fort Worth and New York." Burlington Magazine 145 (October 2003), p. 747, dates it 1930.
David Minthorn. "Exhibit Honors Acclaimed Guston." Star-Gazette (November 2, 2003), p. 4E, dates it 1930.
"Guston Paintings on Display at Met." Odessa American (October 29, 2003), p. 10B, ill., dates it 1930.
"Guston at The Met: Relentlessly Modern." Poughkeepsie Journal (November 4, 2003), p. 2E, ill. p. 1E (color), dates it 1930.
David Anfam. "Eye to Eye With Philip Guston." RA Magazine no. 81 (Winter 2003), p. 37, dates it 1930.
Raphael Rubinstein. "Philip Guston: Some Thoughts." Art in America 92 (March 2004), pp. 84, 86, dates it 1930.
Donald E. Sloan. "'Why not revolution?': The John Reed Club and Visual Culture." PhD diss., University of Kansas, 2004, pp. 165–66, 171–72, 178, fig. 94, dates it 1930.
William Packer. "Contentious Hand That Lately Reveals Its Worth." Financial Times (January 21, 2004), ill. p. 15.
Brian Sewell. "What a Waste of a Little Bit of Talent." Evening Standard (January 23, 2004), ill. p. 32 (color).
Tom Lubbock. "Driven From Abstraction." Independent (January 27, 2004), ill. p. 55 (color), dates it 1930.
Peter Campbell. "Philip Guston Fouls the Nest." lrb.co.uk. February 5, 2004, dates it 1930.
Dr. Janet McKenzie. "The Art of Philip Guston: 1913–1980." studiointernational.com. March 5, 2004, ill. (color).
Andrew Graham-Dixon. "The Rage and The Glory." Sunday Telegraph (January 25, 2004), p. 9, ill., dates it 1930.
Lisa Melandri inEnigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico. Exh. cat., Santa Monica Museum of Art. Santa Monica, 2006, pp. 11, 64, colorpl. 5.
Michael R. Taylor inEnigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico. Exh. cat., Santa Monica Museum of Art. Santa Monica, 2006, pp. 16–18, 20, 34–35 n. 4.
Manuel Botelho. Guston em contexto: Até ao regresso da figura. [Lisbon], 2007, ill. p. 18, dates it 1930.
Ellen G. Landau. "Double Consciousness in Mexico: How Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish Painted a Morelian Mural." American Art 21 (Spring 2007), pp. 79, 81, fig. 7 (color), dates it 1930.
Christoph Schreier and Michael Semff, ed. Philip Guston: Works on Paper. Exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bonn. Ostfildern, 2007, p. 194.
Robert Slifkin. "Philip Guston's Return to Figuration and the '1930s Renaissance' of the 1960s." Art Bulletin 93 (June 2011), p. 239 n. 8.
David Anfam and Paul Nesbitt inPhilip Guston: Late Paintings. Exh. cat., Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 2012, p. 26, fig. 1 (color), date it 1930.
Ingrid Pfeiffer inPhilip Guston: Das Grosse Spätwerk/Late Works. Ed. Ingrid Pfeiffer and Max Hollein. Exh. cat., Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Cologne, 2013, pp. 14, 16–17, fig. 3 (color), dates it 1930.
Ellen G. Landau. Mexico and American Modernism. New Haven, 2013, p. 41, fig. 26 (color), dates it 1930.
Harald Falckenberg inPhilip Guston: Das Grosse Spätwerk/Late Works. Ed. Ingrid Pfeiffer and Max Hollein. Exh. cat., Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Cologne, 2013, pp. 76–77, dates it 1930.
Lisa Beisswanger inPhilip Guston: Das Grosse Spätwerk/Late Works. Ed. Ingrid Pfeiffer and Max Hollein. Exh. cat., Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Cologne, 2013, pp. 138–39, dates it 1930.
Piet Meyer inEin Gespräch mit Philip Guston. Bern, 2013, p. 125, fig. 44 (color), dates it 1930.
David Anfam. "Guston's Trauma: Ideal/Abject." Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. Ed. Peter Benson Miller. New York, 2014, pp. 83, 87, fig. 30 (color), dates it 1930.
Ara H. Merjian. "Guston's Italian Badness." Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. Ed. Peter Benson Miller. New York, 2014, pp. 63, 67, dates it 1930.
Kosme de Barañano. "Guston: On Late Style and 'Maniera' by Pontormo." Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. Ed. Peter Benson Miller. New York, 2014, p. 43, dates it 1930.
Mette Gieskes. "I is an Other: Philip Guston's Imagined Incarnations of God and Klansmen." Example Or Alter Ego?: Aspects of the Portrait Historié in Western Art from Antiquity to the Present. Ed. Volker Manuth et al. Turnhout, 2016, p. 289, dates it 1930.
Jackie Wullschläger. "Star-Spangled Biennale: Americans Shine in Venice." ft.com. May 12, 2017, dates it 1930.
Emmanuel Daydé. "Philip Guston: Affreux, Sale et Géant." Art Absolument no. 78 (July/August 2017), p. 60, ill. (color), dates it 1930.
Enrico Tantucci. "Verso La Biennale: Venezia capitale per gli artisti di tutto il mondo." Il Mattino (March 28, 2017), ill. (color).
"Philip Guston and the Poets." Carvan & Camper no. 487 (May 2017), ill. p. 128 (color).
"Philip Guston and the Poets." Art Bahrain (Spring 2017), ill. (color).
"Altre Mostre a Venezia." Art e Dossier (May 2017), pp. 20–21, ill. (color).
Enzo Di Martino. "Sorprendente Guston all'Accademia." Il Gazzettino (May 9, 2017).
Giovanni Corrieri. "Philip Guston and the Poets." L'Araldo abruzzese (September 17, 2017), ill.
Alastair Sooke. "My Father Saw Family as an Interference." Daily Telegraph (July 29, 2017), ill. p. 14 (color).
"Damien si sdoppia a Venezia. Chi farà più scandalo in Laguna, l'inglese Hirst, l'americano Guston o i protagonisti della Biennale?" Sette (March 17, 2017).
Lorena Muñoz-Alonso. "Philip Guston Holds His Own Next to the Venetian Masters at the Gallerie dell'Accademia." news.artnet.com. May 12, 2017.
Musa Mayer and Mark Stevens inHauser & Wirth Hong Kong Issue No. 1: Philip Guston. Exh. cat., Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong. Hong Kong, 2018, p. 8, ill. (color).
Robert Storr. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London, 2020, p. 15, no. 2, ill. (color).
Musa Mayer. Philip Guston. London, 2020, p. 7, ill. p. 8 (color).
Harry Cooper inPhilip Guston Now. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 2020, pp. 9–10, colorpl. 1.
Paul Laster. "Philip Guston: A Life Lived Through Art." artandobject.com. July 21, 2020.
Claire Selvin. "Figuration to Abstraction and Back Again: How Philip Guston Shaped 20th-Century Painting." artnews.com. July 22, 2020, ill. (color), dates it in text as 1930.
Ps Trang. "Danh họa Philip Guston: Từ lối vẽ hình tượng đến trừu tượng và ngược lại." luxuo.vn. August 7, 2020, ill. (color), dates it 1930.
Naomi Rea. "Philip Guston's Market Has Never Reached the Heights of His Ab-Ex Contemporaries. But This Year's Controversy May Change That." news.artnet.com. December 22, 2020, dates it 1930.
Jennifer L. Roberts and Harry Cooper inPhilip Guston Now. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 2020, p. 223.
Susan Tallman. "Philip Guston's Discomfort Zone." nybooks.com. January 14, 2021.
Franklin Einspruch. "Visual Arts Commentary: Philip Guston and the Impossibility of Art Criticism." artsfuse.org. May 3, 2022, dates it 1930.
Robin Pogrebin. "Met to Receive Trove of Philip Guston's Art." New York Times (December 15, 2022), pp. C1, C6, ill. (color).
A. R. Hoffman. "Guston: A Genius Beyond Controversy." nysun.com. May 7, 2022.
Elizabeth Michelman. "Philip Guston's True Colors at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." artscopemagazine.com. August 9, 2022, dates it 1930.
Vivienne Chow. "The Met Now Boasts the World's Largest Collection of Philip Guston's Work, Thanks to a 220-Piece Gift by the Artist's Daughter." news.artnet.com. December 15, 2022.
Joe Dziemianowicz. "220 Philip Guston Artworks Have a New Home at The Met." barrons.com. December 16, 2022.
Mario Naves. "Finding Context: After a Nearly Two-Year Postponement, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Became the First of Four Venues to Open the Philip Guston Now Exhibition." Art & Antiques (June 2022), pp. 36–37.
Karen Wilkin. "Philip Guston Finally." New Criterion 41 (September 2022), p. 46.
"Philip Guston Now, First Retrospective in Nearly 20 Years, Opens at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston." artdaily.com. October 23, 2022.
Chris Becker. "Tabled So Curators Could Add 'Perspectives' Following George Floyd's Murder, this Poignant Show Is Up at MFAH." houstoncitybook.com. October 24, 2022, ill. (color), dates it 1930.
"Philip Guston Now Opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Through January 2023." stylemagazine.com. October 28, 2022.
Andy Coughlan. "Take a Look at This Houston Art Exhibit Through a Southeast Texan's Eyes." beaumontenterprise.com. November 21, 2022, ill. (color), dates it 1930.
Philip Guston. Lyon, 2022, ill. p. 5 (color).
"The Met Museum Receives Gift of 220 Philip Guston Works From His Daughter." lavocedinewyork.com. December 14, 2022.
Ernest Chlopicki. "Review: Philip Guston at Tate Modern." strandmagazine.co.uk. October 6, 2023, dates it 1930.
Musa Mayer. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 7th [1st ed, 1988]. [Zurich], 2023, pp. 24, 284, 307, 360, fig. 11 (color).
Karen Wilkin. "Philip Guston in Boston, Houston, and Washington." hudsonreview.com. Spring 2023.
"Acquisitions of the Month: December 2022." apollo-magazine.com. January 6, 2023, ill. (color).
Jackie Wullschläger. "Philip Guston, Tate Modern Review — Violent, Unsettling and Thrilling From Start to Finish." ft.com. October 5, 2023, ill. (color), dates it 1930 in the text.
Éric Suchère. "Dans la modernité." Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Philip Guston: Écrits, conférences et entretiens, 1944–1980. Ed. Clark Coolidge. 2nd ed. [1st ed., 2010]. [Strasbourg], 2023, pp. 29, 623, fig. 3 (color), fig. 37 (color, installation photo, Houston 2022), dates it 1930.
Musa Mayer. "Philip Guston at The Met." Perspectives. Online resource [metmuseum.org/perspectives/articles], May 25, 2023, ill. (color).
The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024–25 (accessed), no. P30.001, ill. (color).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
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