Inscription: Signed (lower left): Philip Guston; inscribed (verso): 14 [crossed out]/PHILIP GUSTON/"THE THREE" [underlined] 1964/OIL 80 x 91 [underlined]/N.F.S. [underlined] COLLECTION OF ARTIST [underlined]
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1964–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)
Jewish Museum, New York. "Philip Guston: Recent Paintings and Drawings," January 12–February 13, 1966, no. 26 (lent by the artist).
Boston University, School of Fine & Applied Arts Gallery. "American Artists of the Nineteen Sixties," February 6–March 14, 1970, unnumbered cat. (p. 27; lent by the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc.).
St. Paul-de-Vence. Fondation Maeght. "L'art vivant aux États-Unis," July 16–September 30, 1970, unnumbered cat. (p. 48; lent by Marlborought [sic] Gallery Inc, New York)[reproduced upside down].
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Philip Guston," May 16–June 29, 1980, no. 40 (lent by the artist).
Washington, D. C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. "Philip Guston," July 20–September 9, 1980, no. 40.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. "Philip Guston," November 12, 1980–January 11, 1981, no. 40.
Denver Art Museum. "Philip Guston," February 25–April 26, 1981, no. 40.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Philip Guston," June 24–September 13, 1981, no. 40.
Bronx Museum of the Arts. "Return to the Figure: Three Studies—Philip Guston, Jean Helion, Irene Rice Pereira," April 7–August 28, 1988, no. 4.
Cologne. Museum Ludwig. "Bilderstreit: Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960," April 8–June 28, 1989, no. 239 (lent by the Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy David McKee Gallery, New York).
Hauser & Wirth, New York. "Philip Guston: Painter 1957–1967," April 26–July 29, 2016, unnumbered cat. (p. 82; lent by a private collection).
Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong. "Philip Guston: A Painter's Forms, 1950–1979," May 29–August 25, 2018, not in catalogue.
Philip Guston. "Piero della Francesca: The Impossibility of Painting." Art News 64 (May 1965), ill. p. 39, calls it "Number 14".
Morton Feldman. "After Modernism." Art in America 59 (November–December 1971), ill. p. 75 (color).
Andree M. Workman. "Guston: A Born-Again Painter." West Art (Auburn, Calif.) 18 (June 13, 1980), p. 3.
Thomas Albright. "Philip Guston: 'It's a Strange Thing to Be Immersed in the Culture of Painting...'." Art News 79 (September 1980), p. 115.
Christopher Lyon. "Reflections on a Mirror." Chicago Reader (November 28, 1980), p. 47.
Paul Brach. "Looking at Guston." Art in America 68 (November 1980), p. 100, ill. p. 99 (color).
Bernard Hanson. "Guston's Fine Lines and Gray Areas." Hartford Courant (August 23, 1981), p. G2.
John Clark. "Philip Guston and Metaphysical Painting." Artscribe (August 1981), p. 24.
Norbert Lynton inPhilip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Ed. Nicholas Serota. Exh. cat., Whitechapel Art Gallery. London, 1982, ill. p. 13.
Bill Berkson. Philip Guston: 1961– 1965. Exh. cat., McKee Gallery. [New York], 1990, unpaginated.
Michael Auping inPhilip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat., Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Fort Worth, 2003, p. 51.
Michael Auping. "When Doubt Becomes Form." Art News 102 (May 2003), p. 102.
Bill Berkson. "The Story Goes: Guston, Piero, and Their Followers." Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. Ed. Peter Benson Miller. New York, 2014, p. 35, fig. 8 (color).
Matt Smith. "Hauser & Wirth to Display New Philip Guston Exhibit, 4/26." broadwayworld.com. April 12, 2016.
"Philip Guston: Painter, 1957–1967." galleriesnow.net. May 10, 2016.
"Philip Guston: Painter, 1957–1967 @ Hauser & Wirth New York." nyartsmagazine.net. April 13, 2016.
"Philip Guston Painter, 1957–1967 at Hauser and Wirth (Video)." artefuse.com. May 21, 2016.
"New York Exhibits. Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." yareah.com. April 11, 2016.
Robert Storr. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London, 2020, ill. pp. 335–36 (color, installation photos, Exh. San Francisco 1980).
Robin Pogrebin. "Met to Receive Trove of Philip Guston's Art." New York Times (December 15, 2022), p. C6.
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.
Alex Greenberger. "Metropolitan Museum to Receive 220-Work Philip Guston Gift from the Artist’s Daughter." artnews.com. December 14, 2022, ill. (color).
"The Met Museum Receivess Gift of 220 Philip Guston Works From His Daughter." lavocedinewyork.com. December 14, 2022.
The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024–2025 (accessed), no. P64.012, ill. (color).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1971
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