Inscription: Signed, dated, and inscribed (left center): PHILLIP GOLDSTEIN 1935/ TO MUSA
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1935–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)
Pasadena Museum of California Art. "Post Surrealism," June 1–September 1, 2002, unnumbered cat. (p. 45; lent by the estate of Philip Guston; Private Collection, courtesy McKee Gallery, New York).
Logan. Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University. "Post Surrealism," October 11, 2002–January 24, 2003, unnumbered cat.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Philip Guston Now," May 1–September 11, 2022, unnumbered cat. (pl. 5; 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.
Harry Cooper inPhilip Guston Now. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 2020, pp. 10–11, 127, colorpl. 5.
Paul Laster. "Philip Guston: A Life Lived Through Art." artandobject.com. July 21, 2020, calls it "Female Nude at Easel".
A. R. Hoffman. "Guston: A Genius Beyond Controversy." nysun.com. May 7, 2022.
Leah Triplett Harrington. "The MFA Boston Embraced Hard Conversations in Its Philip Guston Show. Why Doesn't It Examine Its Collection Just as Critically?" news.artnet.com. May 26, 2022.
Phong Bui. "Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation." brooklynrail.org. May 2023.
Mark Westall. "Tate Modern to Present a Landmark Exhibition of Philip Guston This October." fadmagazine.com. August 22, 2023, ill. (color).
Laura Freeman. "'My Father, Philip Guston, Would be Offended by the Reaction to His Show'." thetimes.co.uk. September 23, 2023, ill. (color).
Gareth Harris. "Postponed Philip Guston Survey Finally Opens at Tate Modern." theartnewspaper.com. October 3, 2023.
Ernest Chlopicki. "Review: Philip Guston at Tate Modern." strandmagazine.co.uk. October 6, 2023.
Matthew Holman. "The Big Review: Philip Guston at Tate Modern." theartnewspaper.com. November 2, 2023, ill. (color, installation photo).
Judicaël Lavrador. "L'art taillé dans le vif de Philip Guston." Beaux Arts Magazine (December 2023), p. 68, ill. (color).
Clark Coolidge, ed. Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Philip Guston: Écrits, conférences et entretiens, 1944–1980. 2nd ed. [1st ed., 2010]. [Strasbourg], 2023, fig. 37 (color, installation photo, Exh. Houston 2022–23), 39 (color, installation photo, Exh. Boston 2022).
Matthew Holman. "The Big Review: Philip Guston." Art Newspaper no. 361 (November 2023), p. 62.
Saul Nelson. "Insomniac Visions." newleftreview.org. November 24, 2023.
The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024–25 (accessed), no. P35.006, ill. (color).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1971
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