Inscription: Inscribed (verso): PHILIP GUSTON/ "THE LINE" [underlined] 1978/ 71 x 73 1/4 [underlined]/ OIL ON CANVAS
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1978–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. McKee Gallery. "Philip Guston: Major Paintings from the Seventies," October 5–November 9, 1996, no catalogue.
IVAM / Institut Valencia d'Art Modern. "Philip Guston: One-Shot Painting/De Un Solo Aliento," December 13, 2001–March 3, 2002, unnumbered cat. (p. 215; lent by the Estate of Philip Guston, Courtesy McKee Gallery, New York).
Maastricht, the Netherlands. Bonnefantenmuseum. "Philip Guston: One-Shot Painting/De Un Solo Aliento," March 17–December 8, 2002, unnumbered cat.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. "Philip Guston Retrospective," March 30–June 8, 2003, unnumbered cat. (pl. 122; lent by a private collection, Courtesy of McKee Gallery, New York).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Philip Guston Retrospective," June 28–September 27, 2003, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Philip Guston Retrospective," October 28, 2003–January 4, 2004, unnumbered cat.
London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Philip Guston Retrospective," January 24–April 12, 2004, unnumbered cat.
Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. "Philip Guston: Late Paintings," July 25–October 7, 2012, no. 5 (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. 63; 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.
Venice. Gallerie dell'Accademia. "Philip Guston and the Poets," May 10–September 3, 2017, unnumbered cat. (p. 71; lent by a private collection).
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "Philip Guston Now," October 23, 2022–January 15, 2023, unnumbered cat. (pl. 164; lent by a private collection).
Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. "Philip Guston Now," March 2–August 27, 2023, unnumbered cat.
Moira Jeffrey. "Different Strokes." Scotland on Sunday (July 29, 2012), p. 12.
David Anfam and Paul Nesbitt inPhilip Guston: Late Paintings. Exh. cat., Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 2012, pp. 26–27, 30, 33, colorpl. 5 and ill. front cover (color), back cover (color, installation photo), n.p. (color, installation photos).
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, 149, ill. p. 63 (color).
Craig Burnett. Philip Guston: The Studio. London, 2014, pp. 72, 90, fig. 15 (color).
David Anfam. "Guston's Trauma: Ideal/Abject." Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. Ed. Peter Benson Miller. New York, 2014, pp. 83, 89.
Poul Erik Tøjner. "Kontant." Louisiana Magasin no. 40 (May 2014), ill. p. 10 (color).
Ara H. Merjian. "Guston's Italian Badness." Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. Ed. Peter Benson Miller. New York, 2014, p. 67.
Achille Bonito Oliva. "The Figurable." Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. Ed. Peter Benson Miller. New York, 2014, p. 80.
Kosme de Barañano. "Los viajes de Ulises en el siglo xx. Formas de la pasión en Beckmann, Picasso y Philip Guston." Visiones de Pasión y Perversidad. [Madrid], 2014, p. 208.
Robert Storr inThe Shadow of the Avant-Garde: Rousseau and the Forgotten Masters. Ed. Kasper König and Falk Wolf. Exh. cat., Museum Folkwang, Essen. Ostfildern, 2015, pp. 264, 266, fig. 2 (color).
Fisun Guner. "Philip Guston, Timothy Taylor Gallery: Small But Powerful Survey of the American Artist's Late Figurative Paintings." theartsdesk.com. June 21, 2015.
David McKee et. al. "Philip Guston: The Hands of Clocks." Hauser & Wirth 7 (Winter 2015), ill. front cover (color).
Mette Gieskes. "I is an Other: Philip Guston's Imagined Incarnations of God and Klansmen." Example Or Alter Ego?: Aspects of the Portrait Historié in Western Art from Antiquity to the Present. Ed. Volker Manuth et al. Turnhout, 2016, pp. 285, 302, 303 n. 86, no. 1, ill. p. 286 (color).
Jackie Wullschläger. "Star-Spangled Biennale: Americans Shine in Venice." ft.com. May 12, 2017.
Kosme de Barañano inPhilip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat., Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia. New York, 2017, pp. 55–56, 173, ill. p. 71 (color).
Lorena Muñoz-Alonso. "Philip Guston Holds His Own Next to the Venetian Masters at the Gallerie dell'Accademia." news.artnet.com. May 12, 2017.
Cara Ober. "How Philip Guston Found Salvation in Poetry." hyperallergic.com. June 21, 2017, ill. (color).
Jeremy Sigler. "Philip Guston: A Stumblebum in Venice." tabletmag.com. August 14, 2017, ill. (color, detail).
Craig Burnett. "Literature Always Rivalled Painting for his Attention." Apollo 185 (May 2017), p. 52, ill. (color).
Francesca Amé. "Super blob in salsa Vezzoli: La fondazione Prada di Milano accoglie il ritorno in Italia dell'artistar che ha ammaliato Hollywood. Suo il progetto realizzato con la Rai, che promette qualche riflessione e molte risate." Business People (May 2017), ill. p. 101 (color).
Giovanna Pastega. "Assaggi di Biennale Così Venezia celebra l'arte contemporanea." Il Piccolo (May 8, 2017), ill. p. 28 (color).
Musa Mayer and Mark Stevens inHauser & Wirth Hong Kong Issue No. 1: Philip Guston. Exh. cat., Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong. Hong Kong, 2018, p. 20, ill. p. 21 (color).
Musa Mayer. Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971. Exh. cat., Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles. Zurich, 2019, pp. 37, 179, ill. p. 38 (color).
Elly Thomas. Play and the Artist's Creative Process: The Work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi. New York, 2019, pp. 72, 163–64, fig. 3.6.
Musa Mayer and Anders Bergstrom inConversations on Artists' Estates & Modern Masters for Art Basel 2019. Zurich, 2019, p. 87.
Robert Storr. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London, 2020, p. 209, no. 253, ill. p. 229 (color).
Musa Mayer. Philip Guston. London, 2020, p. 104, ill. p. 97 (color).
Kate Nesin inPhilip Guston Now. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 2020, pp. 208, 217.
Harry Cooper inPhilip Guston Now. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 2020, colorpl. 164.
Craig Burnett. "Jazzing Michelangelo." Apollo: The International Art Magazine 191 (May 2020), p. 67.
Mark Godfrey inPhilip Guston Now. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 2020, p. 199, ill. p. 192 (color, detail).
Paul Carter Robinson and David Anfam. "Philip Guston Postponed: Curator David Anfam Speaks Out." artlyst.com. October 6, 2020.
Susan Tallman. "Philip Guston's Discomfort Zone." nybooks.com. January 14, 2021.
Craig Burnett. "Mixed Emotions." Apollo 195 (May 2022), p. 83, fig. 3 (color).
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.
Arthur Aghajanian. "Emulating Divine Creation." dappledthings.org. 2022, ill. (color).
Lyle Rexer. "Philip Guston Now." brooklynrail.org. September 2022.
"The Met Museum Receives Gift of 220 Philip Guston Works From His Daughter." lavocedinewyork.com. December 14, 2022.
Roberta Smith. "A Gift The Met Might Not Need." New York Times (January 24, 2023), ill. p. C1 (color).
Phong Bui. "Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation." brooklynrail.org. May 2023, ill. (color, installation photo, Exh. Washington 2023).
Judicaël Lavrador. "L'art taillé dans le vif de Philip Guston." Beaux Arts Magazine (December 2023), p. 73, ill. (color).
Musa Mayer. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 7th [1st ed, 1988]. [Zurich], 2023, p. 365, fig. 122 (color).
"Acquisitions of the Month: December 2022." apollo-magazine.com. January 6, 2023.
Jackie Wullschläger. "Philip Guston, Tate Modern Review — Violent, Unsettling and Thrilling From Start to Finish." ft.com. October 5, 2023, ill. (color).
Melissa Petrie. "Does a Painting Have to be 'Pretty' to be Beautiful?" thinkingman.substack.com. August 18, 2023, ill. (color).
Nathan Smith. "Tate Modern Reveals Philip Guston's Hoodwink." observer.com. November 9, 2023, ill. (color, installation photo, Exh. London 2023–24).
Sarah Kent. "Philip Guston, Tate Modern Review - a Compelling Look at an Artist Who Derided the KKK: How to Appear Daft While Addressing the Dark Side." theartsdesk.com. October 5, 2023, ill. (color).
Saul Nelson. "Insomniac Visions." newleftreview.org. November 24, 2023, ill. (color).
Musa Mayer. "Philip Guston at The Met." Perspectives. Online resource [metmuseum.org/perspectives/articles], May 25, 2023, ill. (color).
Alastair Sooke. "Timeless Art That Skewers Evil With a Savage Intensity." Daily Telegraph (October 4, 2023), ill. p. 10 (color).
"Who Says Autumn Can’t be Hot? Our Critics Pick the Season’s Must-Sees – From Marilyn to Macbeth, the Royal Opera’s New Ring to the Rolling Stones’ Last Hurrah." Daily Telegraph (September 2, 2023), ill. p. 5 (color).
The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024–25 (accessed), no. P78.020, ill. (color).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1971
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