Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left): Philip Guston '66
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1966–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)
Cambridge. Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters: Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Philip Guston," February 21–March 26, 1975, no. 81 (lent from the collection of the artist, courtesy David McKee Gallery, Inc., New York).
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. "Drawings by Five Abstract Expressionist Painters: Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Philip Guston," January 10–Februaray 29, 1976, unnumbered cat. (lent by the artist).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Philip Guston," May 16–June 29, 1980, no. 43 (lent by the artist).
Washington, D. C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. "Philip Guston," July 20–September 9, 1980, no. 43.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. "Philip Guston," November 12, 1980–January 11, 1981, no. 43.
Denver Art Museum. "Philip Guston," February 25–April 26, 1981, no. 43.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Philip Guston," June 24–September 13, 1981, no. 43.
Woodstock, N.Y. Woodstock Artists Association and Museum. "Philip Guston: The Essential Line," August 10–September 1, 2019, no catalogue (checklist no. 10; lent by a private collection).
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Philip Guston Now," May 1–September 11, 2022, unnumbered cat. (pl. 62; 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.
Ross Feld inPhilip Guston. Exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1980, pp. 21, 130, no. 43, pl. 36.
Thomas Albright. "A Curious Repertoire of the Guston Imagery." S. F. Sunday Examiner & Chronicle (May 25, 1980), p. 37.
Leah Triplett Harrington. "The MFA Boston Embraced Hard Conversations in Its Philip Guston Show. Why Doesn't It Examine Its Collection Just as Critically?" news.artnet.com. May 26, 2022, ill. (color, installation photo, Exh. Boston 2022).
Rosa Boshier González. "Philip Guston Now." brooklynrail.org. December 2022–January 2023, calls it "Untitled".
Hettie Judah. "Warning Labels at Museums Make Art More Accessible to All–But They Should Stop Short of Telling Us How to Think." news.artnet.com. June 6, 2022, ill. (color, installation photo, Exh. Boston 2022).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1971
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