the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (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)
Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection. "Philip Guston: 1980 / The Last Works," March 21–May 24, 1981, no. 18.
Cleveland Museum of Art. "Philip Guston: 1980 / The Last Works," June 6–September 13, 1981, no. 18.
Pittsburgh. Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute. "Philip Guston: 1980 / The Last Works," October 10, 1981–January 3, 1982, no. 18.
New York. David McKee Gallery. "Philip Guston: 1980 / The Last Works," January 12–February 12, 1982, no catalogue.
Cambridge, Mass. Hayden Gallery. "Philip Guston: The Last Works Paintings and Drawings 1979–1980," October 13–November 25, 1984, no catalogue.
Les Sables d'Olonne, France. Musee de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix. "Philip Guston (1913-1980): Oeuvres sur papier 1975-1980," June 24–September 30, 1995, unnumbered cat. (one of nos. 10–12, 14, 16, 20, or 28; lent by Succession Philip Guston, Courtesy McKee Gallery, New York).
Easton, Penn. Williams Center for the Arts. "Philip Guston: The Last Works," April 9–May 6, 1998, unnumbered cat. (p. 15; lent by The Estate of Philip Guston. Courtesy McKee Gallery, New York).
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. "Philip Guston Retrospective," March 30–June 8, 2003, unnumbered cat. (pl. 133; as "Untitled (Cherries)," lent by a private collection).
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.
Kunstmuseum Bonn. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," March 1–May 20, 2007, no. 93 (as "Untitled (Cherries)," lent by a private collection).
Humlebæk. Louisiana Museum. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," May 31–August 26, 2007, no. 93.
Vienna. Albertina. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," September 7–November 25, 2007, no. 93.
Munich. Pinakothek der Moderne. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," December 13, 2007–March 2, 2008, no. 93.
New York. Morgan Library and Museum. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," May 2–August 31, 2008, no. 93.
Munich. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung. "Philip Guston, Drei Blicke: Die Gesamte Druckgraphik Letzte Acryl-Arbeiten auf Papier Zeichnungen für Dichter," March 26–June 28, 2015, unnumbered cat. (p. 49; as "Untitled (Cherries)," lent by a private collection).
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Philip Guston Now," May 1–September 11, 2022, unnumbered cat. (pl. 181; 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.
Paul Richard. "The Gusto of Guston." Washington Post (April 9, 1981), p. D13.
David Anfam. "Telling Tales: Philip Guston in Retrospect." Artforum 41 (May 2003), p. 138, calls it "Untitled (Cherries)".
Michael Auping. "Philip Guston Retrospective." American Art Review 15 (July–August 2003), p. 139.
Richard Lacayo. "The Drawings of Philip Guston." entertainment.time.com. May 1, 2008, ill. (color), calls it "Untitled (Cherries)".
"Guston to Diebenkorn, Dumas to Peterson." Boston Sunday Globe (May 18, 2008), ill. p. M2, calls it "Untitled (Cherries)".
Donald Kuspit. "Philip Guston: Morgan Library and Museum." Artforum 47 (November 2008), ill. p. 352 (color), calls it "Untitled (Cherries)".
Julia Dault. "Philip Guston." Border Crossings 27 (November 2008), p. 95, ill. p. 94 (color), calls it "Untitled (Cherries)".
Lance Esplund. "Guston Times Two." New York Sun (May 1, 2008), p. 15, ill. p. 13 (color), calls it "Untitled (Cherries)".
Eric Banks. "Walk the Line: Philip Guston's Creepy Klansmen and Cartoon Nixons Pushed the Limits on Paper." Men's Vogue 4 (May 2008), p. 48, ill. (color), calls it "Untitled (Cherries)".
Kelly Crow. "Guston, With a Cherry on Top: The Artist's Journey from Abstraction to Figurative Art Is Examined in a New Exhibit." Wall Street Journal (May 9, 2008), p. W2, ill., calls it "Untitled (Cherries)".
"The Approval Matrix: Our Deliberately Oversimplified Guide to Who Falls Where on our Taste Hierarchies." New York (May 12, 2008), ill. p. 76 (color), calls it "Untitled (Cherries)," and places it in upper right hand corner of matrix ("Highbrow" and "Brilliant" quadrant).
Isabelle Dervaux. "Drawing from the Centre: An Overdue Retrospective of Philip Guston's Works on Paper Charts a Painter's Journey Towards Despair." Art World no. 5 (June/July 2008), p. 24, ill. (color), calls it "Untitled (Cherries)".
Andrew Martin. "Guston Goes Electric." idiommag.com. June 8, 2011, ill. (color), calls it "Cherries".
Mario Naves. "Finding Context: After a Nearly Two-Year Postponement, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Became the First of Four Venues to Open the Philip Guston Now Exhibition." Art & Antiques (June 2022), ill. p. 36 (color).
Judy Bolton-Fasman. "The Art and Social Conscience of Jewish Artist Philip Guston." jewishboston.com. June 28, 2022, ill. (color).
John Yau. "Philip Guston's Haunted Testimonies." hyperallergic.com. August 18, 2022, ill. (color).
Frances Brent. "Visual Moment | The Subversive Art of Philip Guston." momentmag.com. September 28, 2022, ill. (color).
Musa Mayer. "Philip Guston at The Met." Perspectives. Online resource [metmuseum.org/perspectives/articles], May 25, 2023, ill. (color).
The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024–25 (accessed), no. P80.008, ill. (color).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1936
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