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. 1.
Cleveland Museum of Art. "Philip Guston: 1980 / The Last Works," June 6–September 13, 1981, no. 1.
Pittsburgh. Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute. "Philip Guston: 1980 / The Last Works," October 10, 1981–January 3, 1982, no. 1.
New York. David McKee Gallery. "Philip Guston: 1980 / The Last Works," January 12–February 12, 1982, no catalogue.
London. Whitechapel Art Gallery. "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980," October 13–December 12, 1982, no. 40.A (as "Untitled (Eye)").
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980," January 13–March 6, 1983, no. 40.A.
Cambridge, Mass. Hayden Gallery. "Philip Guston: The Last Works Paintings and Drawings 1979–1980," October 13–November 25, 1984, no catalogue.
Greenville, S.C. Greenville County Museum of Art. "Philip Guston," February 11–April 6, 1986, unnumbered cat. (front cover; 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.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "The Drawings of Philip Guston," September 8–November 1, 1988, no. 153 (lent by a private collection, New York).
Amsterdam. Museum Overholland. "Philip Guston (The Drawings of Philip Guston)," January 14–March 12, 1989, no. 153.
Barcelona. Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions. "Dibuixos: Philip Guston," March 30–May 14, 1989, no. 153 (lent by a private collection, New York).
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. "The Drawings of Philip Guston," May 28–July 23, 1989, no. 153.
Dublin. Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College. "The Drawings of Philip Guston," August 9–September 16, 1989, no. 153.
Rome. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea. "Philip Guston: Opere Su Carta 1933–1980," October 11–November 26, 1989, no. 124 (lent by a private collection, New York).
Bilbao. Sala Rekalde. "Philip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo / Roots of Drawing," May 11–June 30, 1993, no. 119 (lent by a private collection).
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. 22, 25, or 27, 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. (fig. 8; lent by The Estate of Philip Guston. Courtesy McKee Gallery, New York).
Seville. Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo. "Los Excesos de la Mente," May 29–September 22, 2002, unnumbered cat. (p. 103; as "Sin título (Head) (Cabeza)," lent by a private collection. Courtesy McKee Gallery. New York).
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. "Philip Guston Retrospective," March 30–June 8, 2003, unnumbered cat. (pl. 134; as "Untitled (Head)," 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.
New York. Morgan Library and Museum. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," May 2–August 31, 2008, not in catalogue.
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. 53; as "Untitled (Eye)," lent by a private collection).
Venice. Gallerie dell'Accademia. "Philip Guston and the Poets," May 10–September 3, 2017, unnumbered cat. (p. 54; lent by a private collection).
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Philip Guston Now," May 1–September 11, 2022, unnumbered cat. (pl. 176; 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.
G [eddy]. S [veikauskas]. "Philip Guston Show at David McKee." Woodstock Times (February 11, 1982), ill. p. 10.
Corinne Robins. The Pluralist Era: American Art 1968–1981. New York, 1984, p. 172.
Robert Storr. Philip Guston. New York, 1986, p. 91, no. 96, ill.
Steven Litt. "Guston's Late Work Intensely Personal." News and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) (May 18, 1986), p. 4E, ill.
Robert Zaller. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14 (Autumn 1987), pp. 88–89, fig. 6, ill. front cover.
Magdalena Dabrowski. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1988, pp. 43, 175, no. 153, ill. p. 171 (color).
Kay Larson. "Waiting For The Light." New York 21 (September 26, 1988), pp. 118, 120, ill. (color).
Eleanor Heartney. "The Drawings of Philip Guston." Art News 87 (December 1988), ill. p. 143 (color).
Peter Schjeldahl. "Daddy Dearest." 7 Days (September 28, 1988), p. 52.
Theodore F. Wolff. "Philip Guston's Wide-Ranging 50-Year Career in Art." Christian Science Monitor (September 26, 1988), p. 20.
Paul Brach. "An Act of Salvation." Art in America 77 (January 1989), ill. pp. 130–31 (color).
April Kingsley. "Amsterdam: Drawings of Philip Guston." Burlington Magazine 131 (January 1989), p. 60, fig. 78.
Kevin Volans. "Philip Guston, Douglas Hyde Gallery Dublin, 9 August–16 September." Circa no. 48 (November–December 1989), p. 40.
Ron Kaal. "Twee Kanten Van Hetzelfde Gezicht: Portret van Philip Guston, de schilder van een steenklomp met een groot cyclopisch oog en een samenleving die gereduceerd is tot afval." HP (January 21, 1989), p. 47, ill. p. 45.
Peter Schjeldahl. The "7 Days" Art Columns 1988-1990. Great Barrington, Mass., 1990, p. 55, reprints Ref. Schjeldahl 1988.
Kosme Maria de Barañano inPhilip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo/Roots of Drawing. Ed. Kosme Maria de Barañano. Exh. cat., Sala Rekalde. Bilbao, 1993, pp. 21, 209, no. 119, ill. p. 189 (color).
William Corbett. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Cambridge, Mass., 1994, pp. 105–6.
Debra Bricker Balken inPhilip Guston's Poem-Pictures. Exh. cat., Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover. Seattle, 1994, p. 35.
Manuel Jover. "L'art 'impur' de Philip Guston." Beaux Arts Magazine no. 137 (September 1995), ill. p. 114 (color).
Philippe Dagen. "Philip Guston aux Sables-d'Olonne: l'abstraction aller et retour." Le Monde (July 4, 1995), p. 28, ill.
Daniel Morris. "Necessary Wounds: Public History and Private Myth in Philip Guston's Late Work." Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 79 (Spring/Summer 1996), pp. 108–9, ill. p. 106, calls it "Untitled (Head)".
Robert Saltonstall Mattison. Philip Guston: The Last Works. Ed. Stevie O. Daniels. Exh. cat., Williams Center for the Arts. Easton, Penn., 1998, pp. 9, 12, 15, fig. 8 (color).
Didier Ottinger inPhilip Guston, peintures 1947—1979. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Galerie 2. Paris, 2000, ill. p. 17.
Kosme de Barañano inPhilip Guston: One-Shot-Painting/De Un Solo Aliento. Exh. cat., IVAM / Institut Valencia d'Art Modern. [Valencia], 2001, ill. p. 58 (color) [image reversed].
Gaile Robinson. "An Eye for Anguish: Modern's Exhibit Gives Philip Guston a Rare Turn in the Spotlight." Fort Worth Star-Telegram (March 28–April 3, 2003), pp. 36–37, ill., calls it "Untitled (Head)".
Michael Auping. "Philip Guston Retrospective." American Art Review 15 (July–August 2003), p 139, ill. p. 138 (color), calls it "Untitled (Head)".
Ross Feld. Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York, 2003, p. 74, ill. n.p.
Bruce Hainley. "Best of 2003, #1, Philip Guston." Artforum 42 (December 2003), ill. p. 137 (color), calls it "Untitled (Head)".
Michael Kimmelman. "Art Guide: 'Philip Guston,' Metropolitan Museum of Art." New York Times (December 26, 2003), p. E47, [printed previously in November 7, 14, 28, and December 5, 19 editions].
Robert Zaller. "The Abandoned Studio: Philip Guston's Gnostic Testament." Boulevard 20, nos. 2–3 (2005), p. 116, calls it "Untitled [Head]".
Christopher Bucklow. What is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. [Grasmere], 2007, pp. 72–73, 106, 144, 206, colorpl. 53, calls it "Untitled – Head" in the text, and "Untitled –eye" in the caption.
Manuel Botelho. Guston em contexto: Até ao regresso da figura. [Lisbon], 2007, ill. p. 11.
John Yau. "Philip Guston Works on Paper." brooklynrail.org. July – August 2008, ill.
Piet Meyer inEin Gespräch mit Philip Guston. Bern, 2013, p. 136, fig. 53 (color), calls it "Untitled (Head)".
"Philip Guston and the Poets @ Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia." art-it.asia. May 25, 2017, ill. (color, installation photo, Exh. Venice 2017).
Cory Reynolds. "Inquiry and Revelation: Philip Guston & the Poets." artbook.com. June 14, 2017, ill. (color).
Robert Storr. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London, 2020, p. 230, no. 258, ill. p. 232 (color).
Musa Mayer. Philip Guston. London, 2020, p. 109, ill. p. 110 (color).
Holland Cotter. "True to His Ferocious Spirit." New York Times (April 29, 2022), p. C14.
Musa Mayer. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 7th [1st ed, 1988]. [Zurich], 2023, pp. 298, 364, fig. 109 (color).
Barry Schwabsky. "Philip Guston Now." brooklynrail.org. July/August 2023, ill. (color, installation photo, Exh. Washington 2023).
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. P80.025, ill. (color).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1971
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