Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left): Philip Guston 1938
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1938–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. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Philip Guston Drawings 1938–1972," July 11–September 4, 1973, no catalogue.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Philip Guston," May 16–June 29, 1980, no. 4 (as "Study for Queensbridge Housing Project Mural," lent by the artist).
Washington, D. C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. "Philip Guston," July 20–September 9, 1980, no. 4.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. "Philip Guston," November 12, 1980–January 11, 1981, no. 4.
Denver Art Museum. "Philip Guston," February 25–April 26, 1981, no. 4.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Philip Guston," June 24–September 13, 1981, no. 4.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "The Drawings of Philip Guston," September 8–November 1, 1988, no. 3 (as "Boys Fighting," lent by a private collection, Woodstock, New York).
Amsterdam. Museum Overholland. "Philip Guston (The Drawings of Philip Guston)," January 14–March 12, 1989, no. 3.
Barcelona. Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions. "Dibuixos: Philip Guston," March 30–May 14, 1989, no. 3 (as "Boys Fighting," lent by a private collection, Woodstock, New York).
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. "The Drawings of Philip Guston," May 28–July 23, 1989, no. 3.
Dublin. Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College. "The Drawings of Philip Guston," August 9–September 16, 1989, no. 3.
Rome. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea. "Philip Guston: Opere Su Carta 1933–1980," October 11–November 26, 1989, no. 2 (as "Boys Fighting (Ragazzi che si azzuffano)," lent by a private collection, Woodstock, New York).
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. "Philip Guston Retrospective," March 30–June 8, 2003, unnumbered cat. (as "Boys Fighting [Study for Queensbridge Housing Project Mural]," lent by a private collection).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Philip Guston Retrospective," June 28–September 27, 2003, unnumbered cat.
London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Philip Guston Retrospective," January 24–April 12, 2004, unnumbered cat.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Philip Guston Now," May 1–September 11, 2022, unnumbered cat. (pl. 12; 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.
"Whitney's Guston Exhibit Spans Half-Century Career." Greenwich Time (June 27, 1981), p. 17, calls it "Work and Play" and dates it 1940.
Magdalena Dabrowski. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1988, pp. 16–17, 172, no. 3, ill. p. 52 (color).
Michael E. Shapiro inPhilip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat., Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Fort Worth, 2003, pp. 23, 237, colorpl. 5.
Jennifer L. Roberts and Harry Cooper inPhilip Guston Now. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 2020, p. 225.
Alison de Lima Greene inPhilip Guston Now. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 2020, p. 185, colorpl. 12.
Pamela Reynolds. "After Postponement, Philip Guston's Work Finally Arrives at the MFA." wbur.org. April 28, 2022.
Roberta Smith. "A Gift The Met Might Not Need." New York Times (January 24, 2023), ill. p. C5 (color).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1936
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