Inscription: Signed (lower left): Philip Guston; inscribed (verso): PHILIP GUSTON/ "RIDING AROUND" [underlined], 1969/ OIL - "54" x "79"
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1969–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)
Boston University Art Gallery. "New Paintings, Philip Guston," November 14–December 13, 1970, no catalogue.
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art. "Philip Guston: Recent Work," July 31–October 3, 1971, brochure no. 10.
XVI Bienal de São Paulo. "Philip Guston, Ultimos Años," October 16–December 20, 1981, no. 2 (as "Dando uma volta," lent by the estate of Philip Guston, courtesy David McKee Gallery, New York).
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City. "Philip Guston, Sus Ultimos Años," February–March 1982, no. 2 (lent by the estate of Philip Guston, courtesy David McKee Gallery, New York).
Centro de Arte Moderno, Guadalajara, Jalisco. "Philip Guston, Sus Ultimos Años," April–May 1982, no. 2.
Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogatá. "Philip Guston, Sus Ultimos Años," July–August 1982, no. 2.
New York. David McKee Gallery. "Philip Guston, Small Works: 1968-69," April 4–May 4, 1985, no catalogue.
Greenville, S.C. Greenville County Museum of Art. "Philip Guston," February 11–April 6, 1986, unnumbered cat. (lent by the estate of Philip Guston; courtesy of The David McKee Gallery, New York).
Raleigh. North Carolina Museum of Art. "Philip Guston," May 17–July 27, 1986, unnumbered cat.
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. "The Great Interior," October 17–November 15, 1994, no catalogue.
New Haven. Yale University Art Gallery. "Philip Guston: A New Alphabet, The Late Transition," April 25–July 30, 2000, unnumbered cat. (pl. 41; lent by a private collection).
Cambridge, Mass. Fogg Art Museum. "Philip Guston: A New Alphabet, The Late Transition," September 23–December 31, 2000, extended to February 4, 2001, unnumbered cat.
Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. "Philip Guston: Late Paintings," July 25–October 7, 2012, no. 9 (lent by a private collection, courtesy of McKee Gallery, New York).
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. "Philip Guston: Das große Spätwerk / Late Works," November 6, 2013–February 2, 2014, unnumbered cat. (p. 33; lent by a private collection).
Hamburg. Deichtorhallen Hamburg Hall for Contemporary Art. "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.
Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong. "Philip Guston: A Painter's Forms, 1950–1979," May 29–August 25, 2018, unnumbered cat. (p. 50; lent by a private collection).
New York. Hauser & Wirth. "Philip Guston, 1969–1979," September 9–October 30, 2021, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Philip Guston: What Kind of Man Am I?," May 25–August 1, 2023, no catalogue (lent by Musa Guston Mayer).
Jewish Museum, New York. "Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston," November 8, 2024–March 30, 2025, unnumbered cat. (p. 60).
Harold Rosenberg. "Liberation from Detachment." New Yorker 46 (November 7, 1970), p. 136.
Harold Rosenberg. The De-Definition of Art: Action Art to Pop to Earthworks. New York, 1972, p. 133 [reprints Ref. Rosenberg 1970].
Dore Ashton. "La Amerika de Philip Guston." Plural (February 1974), ill. p. 47.
Philip Guston and Harold Rosenberg. "Conversations: Philip Guston and Harold Rosenberg: Guston's Recent Paintings." Boston University Journal 22 (Fall 1974), ill. p. 52.
Henry T. Hopkins inXVI Bienal de São Paulo. Exh. cat., XVI Bienal de São Paulo. São Paulo, 1981, pp. 209–10, no. 2, ill.
"Curator Gives Lecture on Guston Works Today." News (Mexico City) (March 2, 1982), ill. p. 16 (color).
Mark Price. "On Display in Raleigh: Philip Guston's World Bizarre Place of Abstract Symbolism and Imagery." Fayetteville Times (May 27, 1986), p. 14A.
"Philip Guston: February 11–April 6, 1986." Greenville News (February 9, 1986), ill. p. 20E.
Mitchell D. Kahan. Philip Guston. Exh. cat., Greenville County Museum of Art. [Greenville, S.C.], 1986, unpaginated, ill. (color).
Cathleen McGuigan. "Night Studio." Newsweek 112 (September 26, 1988), p. 76, ill. (color).
Dore Ashton. "That is Not What I Meant at All: Why Philip Guston is Not Postmodern." Arts Magazine 63 (November 1988), p. 68.
Dore Ashton. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. 2nd. ed. [1st ed., 1976]. Berkeley, 1990, ill. p. 163.
Andrew Graham-Dixon. "Laughing in the Dark." Independent Magazine no. 129 (February 23, 1991), ill. pp. 48–49 (color).
Miles Unger. "Philip Guston: Wrestling with the Past." Art New England 16 (December 1994–January 1995), p. 34.
William Zimmer. "At Yale, Three Small Exhibitions With Larger Thoughts in Mind." New York Times (June 11, 2000), p. CT23, ill.
Grace Glueck. "Connecticut Covers 3 Centuries Lightly." New York Times (July 21, 2000), p. E32.
Cate McQuaid. "Guston's Art is Darkness Come to Light." Boston Globe (October 28, 2000), p. F5.
Joanna Weber inPhilip Guston: A New Alphabet, The Late Transition. Exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, 2000, pp. xii, 14, colorpl. 41.
Francine Koslow Miller. "Philip Guston, Fogg Art Museum." Artforum 39 (February 2001), p. 156, ill. p. 155.
Harry Cooper. "Recognizing Guston (In Four Slips)." October 99 (Winter 2002), p. 101 n. 18, p. 120.
Gretchen Sullivan Sorin and Helen M. Shannon. In The Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Exh. cat., Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. Atlanta, 2002, ill. p. 89 (color).
Megan Craig. Levinas and James: Toward a Pragmatic Phenomenology. Bloomington, Ind., 2010, p. 176, fig. 3.
Robert Slifkin. "Philip Guston's Return to Figuration and the '1930s Renaissance' of the 1960s." Art Bulletin 93 (June 2011), p. 229, fig. 10.
Keith Bruce. "Between Pollock and Warhol." Herald (Glasgow) (July 27, 2012), p. 19.
David Pollock. "Philip Guston (1913–1980): Late Paintings." list.co.uk. July 29, 2012, ill. (color).
Adrian Hamilton. "The Hand That Rocked the Art Establishment." Independent (August 20, 2012), p. 45, ill. (color).
Alastair Sooke. "Are We Supposed to Laugh or Cry?" Daily Telegraph (August 21, 2012), p. 23, ill.
Alex Wood. "Philip Guston, Late Paintings at Inverleith House." lothianlife.co.uk. August 29, 2012.
Mark Sadler. "Philip Guston/Mick Peter, Inverleith House/Collective Gallery, Edinburgh." Frieze no. 151 (November–December 2012), p. 165, fig. 3 (color).
David Anfam and Paul Nesbitt inPhilip Guston: Late Paintings. Exh. cat., Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 2012, pp. 29–30, colorpl. 9 and ill. n.p. (color, installation photo), (color, detail).
Robert Slifkin. Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. Berkeley, 2013, p. 79, colorpl. 15.
Craig Burnett. Philip Guston: The Studio. London, 2014, pp. 14, 67, fig. 4 (color).
Luca Bertolo. "We Need Poets, We Need Painters. Philip Guston a Venezia." leparoleelecose.it. September 3, 2017.
Anthony Brandt and David Eagleman. The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World. New York, 2017, ill. p. 141 (color).
Eduard Fernandez. "Philip Guston Exhibition in Hong Kong, Narrated by his Daughter, Looks at his Abstract and Figurative Works." South China Morning Post (June 21, 2018), p. 13, ill. (color).
HG Masters. "A Painter's Forms: Interview with Musa Mayer." artasiapacific.com. June 27, 2018.
Jerry Saltz. "How to Be an Artist." New York (November 26–December 9, 2018), ill. p. 32 (color).
Elly Thomas. Play and the Artist's Creative Process: The Work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi. New York, 2019, pp. 158–59, colorpl. 34, fig. 6.3.
Robert Storr. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London, 2020, ill. p. 319 (installation photo, Exh. New York 1970).
Malcolm Gay. "MFA Director Vows to 'Get This Right' with Philip Guston Show." Boston Globe (November 8, 2020), ill. p. N4 (color).
Samuel McIlhagga. "Philip Guston's Controversial Embrace of Figuration Still Shapes His Market." artsy.net. November 3, 2020.
Isis Davis-Marks. "Understanding the Controversy Over Postponed Exhibition Featuring KKK Imagery." smithsonianmag.com. September 29, 2020, ill. (color, installation photo, Exh. Hamburg 2014).
Arjen Ribbens. "Kritiek op uitstel Guston-expositie om Ku Klux Klan-figuren." nrc.nl. September 29, 2020, ill. (color, installation photo, Exh. Hamburg 2014).
Murray Whyte. "How Do You Contextualize an Artist Who Captured Hate?" bostonglobe.com. September 16, 2021.
Harry Lehmann. "Kunst, Freiheit, Moral." Lettre International no. 135 (Winter 2021), p. 30, ill. p. 24 (color).
Murray Whyte. "What Museums Can Learn From Philip Guston and His Frank Take on 'White Culpability'." Boston Sunday Globe (January 10, 2021), ill. p. N3 (color).
Ilana Novick. "Controversial Philip Guston Paintings at Hauser & Wirth." artandobject.com. October 4, 2021.
Michael Romain. "Stray thoughts after a storm." Wednesday Journal. Online resource [oakpark.com], June 21, 2022.
Aindrea Emelife. A Brief History of Protest Art. London, 2022, pp. 16, 18, 47, ill. p. 46 (color).
Musa Mayer. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 7th [1st ed, 1988]. [Zurich], 2023, p. 363, fig. 84 (color), fig. 118 (color, installation photo, Exh. New York 2021).
Clark Coolidge, ed. Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Philip Guston: Écrits, conférences et entretiens, 1944–1980. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 2010]). [Strasbourg], 2023, fig. 174 (color, installation photo, Exh. Hong Kong 2018), 177 (color, installation photo, Exh. New York 2021).
Mario Naves. "The Art World Recovers From Its Guston Derangement Syndrome." nysun.com. May 29, 2023.
The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024–25 (accessed), no. P69.120, ill. (color).
Walker Mimms. "Philip Guston's Teenage Cartoons." New York Times (June 5, 2024), ill. p. C2.
Trenton Doyle Hancock in Rebecca Shaykin. Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New York, 2024, p. 60, ill. (color) pp. 60 (overall), 61–62 (detail).
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