Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): P. GUSTON/ '42
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (from 1942); [Midtown Galleries, New York]; Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Wilmotte, Washington, D.C. (by 1945–at least 1950); United Hospital Fund, New York (until 1959; sale, Parke Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, June 4, 1959, no. 191); Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Beren, Philadelphia (in 1963); private collection; Musa Guston Mayer, New York (her promised gift to MMA)
Iowa City. State University of Iowa, School of Fine Arts. September 1942–November 1942.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "1942–43 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art: Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Prints," November 24, 1942–January 6, 1943, no. 28.
Washington, D. C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. "The Eighteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings," March 21–May 2, 1943, no. 27.
New York. Midtown Galleries. July 1943.
Art Institute of Chicago. "The Fifty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture," October 28–December 12, 1943, no. 93 (on sale for $750).
Iowa City. Iowa Memorial Union, University of Iowa. "Paintings and Drawings by Philip Guston," March 5–19, 1944, no. 15 (as "Portrait of Musa").
Springfield, Mass. Springfield Museum of Fine Arts. "Fourth Annual Spring Purchase Exhibition," May 6–June 11, 1944.
New York. Midtown Galleries. "Philip Guston," January 15–February 3, 1945, no. 8 (lent by Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Wilmotte).
Minneapolis. University Gallery, University of Minnesota. "Philip Guston," April 10–May 12, 1950, no. 4 (lent by Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Wilmotte).
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Philadelphia Collects 20th Century," October 3–November 17, 1963, unnumbered cat. (p. 20; lent by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Beren).
Iowa City. University of Iowa Museum of Art. "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties," January 25–March 16, 1997, no. 4 (lent by a private collection).
Greenville, S.C. Greenville County Museum of Art. "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties," April 9–June 29, 1997, no. 4.
Utica, N.Y. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art. "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties," November 15, 1997–January 4, 1998, no. 4.
Tahíche, Canary Islands. Fundación César Manrique. "Linea y Poesia: Philip Guston/Musa McKim," June 25–September 27, 1998, unnumbered cat. (p. 57; lent by Musa and Thomas Mayer, New York).
Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. "Philip Guston Now," March 2–August 27, 2023, unnumbered cat. (pl. 16; lent by a private collection).
"'Martial Memory,' an Outstanding [sic] Painting by Philip Guston Will Be Shown at Union." Daily Iowan (September 22, 1942), p. 6, referred to as "a portrait of his wife".
"Whitney Opens Stimulating Exhibition." Art Digest 17 (December 1, 1942), p. 6.
"South American Tour Planned for Drawings by Prof. Philip Guston." Daily Iowan (December 17, 1942), p. 3.
Milton W. Brown. "American Art a Year After Pearl Harbor." Art News 41 (December 1–14, 1942), p. 9, ill.
"Art Exhibit Will Open on Friday." Press-Citizen (Iowa City) (October 1, 1942), p. 10, calls it "a portrait of the artist's wife".
"Art Notes." New York Herald Tribune (July 4, 1943), p. E6, calls it "Musa".
"Philip Guston Given Honor: Painting of Associate Professor Will Be Exhibited." Press-Citizen (Iowa City) (October 27, 1943), p. 2.
"Prof. Philip Guston's Paintings of Army, Navy on Display." Daily Iowan (March 5, 1944), p. 3, calls it "Portrait of Musa".
"Contemporary Artists Display Paintings in Arts Museum Show." Springfield Republican (May 7, 1944), p. 8A.
Robert Storr. Philip Guston. New York, 1986, p. 15, no. 9, ill. p. 14.
Michael Edward Shapiro. "Philip Guston: The War Years." Print Collector's Newsletter 25 (September–October 1994), p. 128.
Tom Patterson. "Guston's '40s Works Frame His Future." Charlotte Observer (May 18, 1997), p. 4F.
Michael E. Shapiro inPhilip Guston: Working Through the Forties. Exh. cat., University of Iowa Museum of Art. Iowa City, 1997, pp. 5–6, 8, 54, no. 4, ill. p. 24 (color).
Celia Stahr inPhilip Guston: Working Through the Forties. Exh. cat., University of Iowa Museum of Art. Iowa City, 1997, pp. 15–16.
Michael E. Shapiro inPhilip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat., Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Fort Worth, 2003, pp. 27–28, reprints Ref. Shapiro 1997.
Innis Howe Shoemaker. Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 2009, p. 169 n. 5.
Piet Meyer inEin Gespräch mit Philip Guston. Bern, 2013, p. 125.
David Sylvester. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. Bern, 2013, fig. 4 (color).
Robert Storr. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London, 2020, p. 30, no. 19, ill. p. 32 (color).
Harry Cooper inPhilip Guston Now. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 2020, p. 28, colorpl. 16.
Diane Cole. "How a Jewish 'Witness of Hell' Navigated a Landscape of American Terror." forward.com. June 5, 2023.
Musa Mayer. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 7th [1st ed, 1988]. [Zurich], 2023, pp. 58, 178–80, 362, fig. 68 (color).
Clark Coolidge, ed. Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Philip Guston: Écrits, conférences et entretiens, 1944–1980. 2nd ed. [1st ed., 2010]. [Strasbourg], 2023, p. 624, ill. no. 30 (color).
Michael Wellen and Musa Mayer. "Transformations on a Canvas." Tate Etc. no. 59, [online resource: tate.org.uk], Autumn 2023.
The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024 (accessed), no. P42.001, ill. (color).
Valérie Duponchelle. "Philip Guston, le peintre qui met du mouvement dans l'abstraction." Le Figaro (January 18, 2024), Culture section, p. 34.
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1971
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