the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1968–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)
London. Whitechapel Art Gallery. "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980," October 13–December 12, 1982, no. 1A (as "Light Bulb," 1969, lent by Musa Guston, Woodstock).
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980," January 13–March 6, 1983, no. 1A.
Melbourne. National Gallery of Victoria. "Philip Guston: The Late Works," August 18–September 16, 1984, no. 1 (as "Light Bulb," 1969, lent by a private collection).
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. "Philip Guston: The Late Works," September 27–October 28, 1984, no. 1.
Sydney. Art Gallery of New South Wales. "Philip Guston: The Late Works," November 8–December 30, 1984, no. 1.
Madrid. Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura," March 1–May 8, 1989, no. 36 (as "Lightbulb," 1969, lent by the Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy David McKee Gallery, New York).
Barcelona. Palau de la Virreina. "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura," May 25–July 16, 1989, no. 36.
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.
New York. McKee Gallery. "Philip Guston: Small Oils on Panel 1969–1973," November 5, 2009–January 9, 2010, no. 5 [not dated].
New York. Pace Gallery. "Burning, Bright: A Short History of the Light Bulb," October 28–November 26, 2011, no catalogue (checklist no. 16; dated 1969, lent by a private collection).
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. "Philip Guston: Das große Spätwerk / Late Works," November 6, 2013–February 2, 2014, unnumbered cat. (p. 90; as "Light Bulb,' 1969, lent by a private collection).
Hamburg. Deichtorhallen. "Philip Guston Late Works," February 22–May 25, 2014, unnumbered cat.
Humlebaek. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. "Philip Guston Late Works," June 4–September 7, 2014, unnumbered cat.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Philip Guston Now," May 1–September 11, 2022, unnumbered cat. (pl. 82; 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.
Edward F. Fry inPhilip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. [Sydney], 1984, ill. p. 18.
Bill Berkson inPhilip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat., Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Fort Worth, 2003, ill. p. 67 (installation photo, the artist's studio).
Roberta Smith. "Art in Review: Philip Guston: 'Small Oils on Panel: 1969–1973'." New York Times (December 11, 2009), p. C34.
Clark Coolidge, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley, 2011, pp. 226–27, ill. (installation photo, the artist's studio).
Robert Slifkin. Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. Berkeley, 2013, p. 52, fig. 22 (installation photo, the artist's studio, ca. 1970).
Ingrid Pfeiffer inPhilip Guston: Das Grosse Spätwerk/Late Works. Ed. Ingrid Pfeiffer and Max Hollein. Exh. cat., Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Cologne, 2013, pp. 18–19, 150, ill. pp. 84–85 (installation photo, the artist's studio), 90 (color).
Craig Burnett. Philip Guston: The Studio. London, 2014, fig. 2 (the artist's studio, 1968–70).
"Philip Guston 'Late Works' at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt." moussemagazine.it. January 16, 2014, ill. (color, installation photo).
Peter Benson Miller. Studio Systems. Exh. cat., American Academy in Rome. New York, 2016, ill. pp. 70–71 (installation photo, the artist's studio, 1975).
Luca Bertolo. "We Need Poets, We Need Painters. Philip Guston a Venezia." leparoleelecose.it. September 3, 2017, ill. (color, installation photo, Exh. Frankfurt 2014).
Musa Mayer. Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971. Exh. cat., Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles. Zurich, 2019, ill. pp. 44–45 (installation photo, the artist's studio, 1975).
Robert Storr. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London, 2020, p. 109, no. 102, ill. (color), no. 110, ill. pp. 112–13 (installation photo, the artist's studio, 1975), dates it 1968–73.
Musa Mayer. Philip Guston. London, 2020, p. 53, ill. p. 57 (color), dates it 1968–69.
Harry Cooper inPhilip Guston Now. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 2020, p. 84, fig. 18 (installation photo, the artist's studio, 1975), colorpl. 82.
Emily Colucci. "'Philip Guston Now' is an Unintentionally Perfect Satire of Contemporary Liberal Cultural Politics." filthydreams.org. May 23, 2022, ill. (color, installation photo, Exh. Boston 2022).
Brian T. Allen. "'Philip Guston Now', Delayed by Race Hysteria, Finally Gets Its Day." nationalreview.com. October 1, 2022, ill. (color, installation photo, Exh. Boston 2022).
Garland Fielder. "Review: 'Philip Guston Now' at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston." glasstire.com. December 6, 2022, ill. (color, installation photo).
Phong Bui. "Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation." brooklynrail.org. May 2023, ill. (color, installation photo, Exh. Washington 2023).
Musa Mayer. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 7th [1st ed, 1988]. [Zurich], 2023, fig. 77 (installation photo, the artist's studio), fig. 116 (color, installation photo, Exh. Houston 2022).
Clark Coolidge, ed. Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Philip Guston: Écrits, conférences et entretiens, 1944–1980. 2nd ed. [1st ed., 2010]. [Strasbourg], 2023, ill. no. 122 (installation photo, the artist's studio, 1975), no. 180 (color, installation photo, Exh. Houston 2022).
The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024–2025 (accessed), no. P68.063, ill. (color).
Rebecca Shaykin inDraw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New York, 2024, pp. 18–19, ill. pp. 22–23 (installation photo, the artist's studio, Woodstock, New York, 1975).
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