Sanctuary

Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): Philip Guston / '44

the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1944–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)

New York. Midtown Galleries. "Philip Guston," January 15–February 3, 1945, no. 1.

Iowa City. Iowa Union and Art Building, University of Iowa. "First Summer Exhibition of Contemporary Art," June 24–July 31, 1945, no. 53 (listed for sale).

New York. Seventeenth Regiment Armory. "Art and Antiques Show," September 24–30, 1945, no catalogue [displayed in the "Critics' Choice" section, chosen by Charles Offin; see Ref. Offin 1945].

Architectural League of New York. "The Rotating Annual Selection of Twelve Paintings 1946–1947," October 8–15, 1946, no catalogue.

Chicago. Marshall Field & Co. "The Rotating Annual Selection of Twelve Paintings 1946–1947," October 23–November 2, 1946, no catalogue.

City Art Museum of Saint Louis. "The Rotating Annual Selection of Twelve Paintings 1946–1947," February 19–March 20, 1947, no catalogue.

Youngstown, Oh. Butler Art Institute. "The Rotating Annual Selection of Twelve Paintings 1946–1947," April 1947, no catalogue.

Lincoln. University Galleries, University of Nebraska, Morrill Hall. "The Rotating Annual Selection of Twelve Paintings 1946–1947," June 1947, no catalogue.

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. "The Rotating Annual Selection of Twelve Paintings 1946–1947," September 1947, no catalogue.

Utica, N.Y. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art. "Philip Guston," November 2–December 1, 1947, no catalogue.

New York. American Academy of Arts and Letters. "Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members, Recipients of Academy and Institute Honors and Pictures Purchased from the Childe Hassam Fund," May 22–June 30, 1948, no. 5 [in Gallery D].

Urbana. University of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Architecture Building. "Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," February 27–April 3, 1949, no. 48.

Minneapolis. University Gallery, University of Minnesota. "Philip Guston," April 10–May 12, 1950, no. 8 (lent by Midtown Galleries).

New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. "Philip Guston," May 2–July 1, 1962, no. 2 (lent by the artist).

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. "Philip Guston," September 20–October 15, 1962, no. 2.

London. Whitechapel Gallery. "Philip Guston," January 16–February 17, 1963, no. 2 (lent by the artist).

Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. "Philip Guston," March 1–24, 1963, no. 2.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Philip Guston," May 15–June 23, 1963, no. 2.

Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College. "Philip Guston: Early and Late Works," October 15–November 15, 1987, no. 1-P (lent by the Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy David McKee Gallery, New York).

Iowa City. University of Iowa Museum of Art. "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties," January 25–March 16, 1997, no. 7 (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. 7.

Utica, N.Y. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art. "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties," November 15, 1997–January 4, 1998, no. 7.

"Heard at the Galleries." Pictures on Exhibit 6 (January 1945), pp. 21, 26, ill.

Margaret Breuning. "Philip Guston Impresses in New York Debut." Art Digest 19 (January 15, 1945), p. 12.

Emily Genauer. "Solo by Guston." New York World-Telegram (January 20, 1945), p. 9.

R[osamund]. F[rost]. "Guston: Meaning Out of Monumentality." Art News 43 (February 1–14, 1945), p. 24, ill.

"The Exhibition At-A-Glance." Iowa City Press-Citizen (June 23, 1945), p. 10.

"New York Critics Pick Exhibits for Armory Show—Prepare to Duck." Art Digest 19 (September 15, 1945), p. 6.

Charles Offin in "Critics' Choice at the Armory Show." Art News 44 (October 1–14, 1945), p. 26.

"Guggenheim Awards for Botanist, Artist." St. Louis Post-Dispatch (April 17, 1947), p. 3B, erroneously lists it in the collection of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Howard Devree. "Reich Art Treasures: Metropolitan Exhibition—Other Events." New York Times (May 23, 1948), p. 8X.

H. H. Arnason. Philip Guston. Exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, 1962, pp. 15, 40, no. 2, ill. p. 47.

John Russell. "The World of Art: Beyond Nature." Sunday Times (January 20, 1963).

Norbert Lynton. "London Letter." Art International 7 (February 25, 1963), p. 69.

Dore Ashton. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York, 1976, pp. 63–64, 200, ill. p. 50.

Ross Feld in Philip Guston. Exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1980, pp. 16–17, fig. 5.

Norbert Lynton in Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Ed. Nicholas Serota. Exh. cat., Whitechapel Art Gallery. London, 1982, p. 10.

Dore Ashton. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. 2nd. ed. [1st ed., 1976]. Berkeley, 1990, pp. 63–64, 208, ill. p. 50.

Michael Edward Shapiro. "Philip Guston: The War Years." Print Collector's Newsletter 25 (September–October 1994), p. 128.

William Corbett. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Cambridge, Mass., 1994, p. 20.

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. 68–69.

Tom Patterson. "Guston's '40s Works Frame His Future." Charlotte Observer (May 18, 1997), p. 4F.

Michael E. Shapiro in Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties. Exh. cat., University of Iowa Museum of Art. Iowa City, 1997, pp. 5, 8, 54, no. 7, ill. p. 27 (color).

Lea Rosson DeLong. Shifting Visions: O'Keeffe, Guston, Richter. Exh. cat., Des Moines Art Center. Des Moines, 1998, p. 45.

David Anfam. "Telling Tales: Philip Guston in Retrospect." Artforum 41 (May 2003), p. 134.

Michael E. Shapiro in Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat., Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Fort Worth, 2003, pp. 27, 30, fig. 2 (color), reprints Ref. Shapiro 1997.

Raphael Rubinstein. "Philip Guston: Some Thoughts." Art in America 92 (March 2004), pp. 86, 88.

Manuel Botelho. Guston em contexto: Até ao regresso da figura. [Lisbon], 2007, ill. p. 52 (color).

Clark Coolidge, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley, 2011, pp. 151, 213–14, publishes transcript of a 1972 talk at Yale Summer School of Music and Art where the artist identified the sitter for this picture as [his student] Stephen Greene [see Ref. Mayer 2023].

Musa Mayer. Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971. Exh. cat., Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles. Zurich, 2019, ill. p. 160 (color).

Robert Storr. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London, 2020, p. 33, no. 20, ill. pp. 33 (color), 289 (in an announcement for Exh. New York 1945), 292 (installation photo, with Guston, Exh. Utica 1947).

Musa Mayer. Philip Guston. London, 2020, p. 14, ill. p. 23 (color).

Jennifer L. Roberts and Harry Cooper in Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 2020, p. 226, fig. 4 (color).

Philip Guston. I Paint What I Want To See. [London], 2022, p. 81, reprints Ref. Coolidge 2011.

Musa Mayer. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 7th [1st ed, 1988]. [Zurich], 2023, pp. 59, 317, 360, fig. 30 (color).

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, p. 32.

The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024–25 (accessed), no. P44.003, ill. (color).