Inscription: Signed and dated (lower center): 1980 P.G.
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. 6.
Cleveland Museum of Art. "Philip Guston: 1980 / The Last Works," June 6–September 13, 1981, no. 6.
Pittsburgh. Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute. "Philip Guston: 1980 / The Last Works," October 10, 1981–January 3, 1982, no. 6.
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.E (as "Untitled (Slope)").
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980," January 13–March 6, 1983, no. 40.E.
Cambridge, Mass. Hayden Gallery. "Philip Guston: The Last Works Paintings and Drawings 1979–1980," October 13–November 25, 1984, no catalogue.
Bilbao. Sala Rekalde. "Philip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo / Roots of Drawing," May 11–June 30, 1993, no. 112 (as "Sin título (Lado de la colina) [Untitled (Hillside)]," 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.
Easton, Penn. Williams Center for the Arts. "Philip Guston: The Last Works," April 9–May 6, 1998, unnumbered cat. (fig. 4; 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. 104; as "Sin título (Hillside) (Ladera)," 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. 135; as "Untitled (Hillside)," 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. 96 (as "Untitled (Hillside)," lent by a private collection).
Humlebæk. Louisiana Museum. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," May 31–August 26, 2007, no. 96.
Vienna. Albertina. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," September 7–November 25, 2007, no. 96.
Munich. Pinakothek der Moderne. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," December 13, 2007–March 2, 2008, no. 96.
New York. Morgan Library and Museum. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," May 2–August 31, 2008, no. 96.
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. 13; as "Untitled (Hillside)," lent by a private collection).
Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. "Philip Guston Now," March 2–August 27, 2023, unnumbered cat. (pl. 178; lent by a private collection).
Stephen Westfall. "Philip Guston." Arts Magazine 56 (April 1982), p. 21.
William Corbett. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Cambridge, Mass., 1994, p. 103.
Robert Saltonstall Mattison. Philip Guston: The Last Works. Ed. Stevie O. Daniels. Exh. cat., Williams Center for the Arts. Easton, Penn., 1998, pp. 8–9, 15, fig. 4 (color).
Kosme de Barañano inPhilip Guston: One-Shot-Painting/De Un Solo Aliento. Exh. cat., IVAM / Institut Valencia d'Art Modern. [Valencia], 2001, ill. p. 38 (color), calls it "Untitled (Hillside) [Sin título (Ladera de la colina)]".
Lucas Reiner. "Fear and Trembling of the Image." Beyond Baroque 26, no. 2 (2004), p. 9, calls it "Untitled (Hillside)".
Robert Zaller. "The Abandoned Studio: Philip Guston's Gnostic Testament." Boulevard 20, nos. 2–3 (2005), pp. 116–17, ill. p. 121, calls it "Untitled [Hillside]".
Ken Johnson. "Primal Instincts Hooked to an Art Against Artifice." New York Times (May 2, 2008), p. E29, ill. p. E25, calls it "Untitled (Hillside)".
Mario Naves. "How Abstract Clumps Became Philip Roth and Dick Nixon." observer.com. May 6, 2008, calls it "Untitled (Hillside)".
Robert Storr. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London, 2020, p. 230, no. 257, ill. p. 231 (color).
David Elliott. "Grave Nowhere: The Unstoppable Paintings of Philip Guston." Border Crossings 39 (November 2020), p. 52.
Musa Mayer. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 7th [1st ed, 1988]. [Zurich], 2023, pp. 298, 364, fig. 108 (color).
The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024–25 (accessed), no. P80.026, ill. (color).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1936
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