the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1944–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)
Iowa City. University of Iowa Museum of Art. "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties," January 25–March 16, 1997, no. 6 (dated ca. 1944, lent by The Estate of Philip Guston, Courtesy McKee Gallery, New York).
Greenville, S.C. Greenville County Museum of Art. "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties," April 9–June 29, 1997, no. 6.
Utica, N.Y. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art. "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties," November 15, 1997–January 4, 1998, no. 6.
Venice. Gallerie dell'Accademia. "Philip Guston and the Poets," May 10–September 3, 2017, unnumbered cat. (p. 24; lent by a private collection).
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Philip Guston Now," May 1–September 11, 2022, unnumbered cat. (pl. 21; 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.
Robert Zaller. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14 (Autumn 1987), p. 75 n. 7.
Dore Ashton. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. 2nd. ed. [1st ed., 1976]. Berkeley, 1990, ill. p. xvi (in the artist's studio).
Kosme Maria de Barañano inPhilip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo/Roots of Drawing. Ed. Kosme Maria de Barañano. Exh. cat., Sala Rekalde. Bilbao, 1993, ill. p. 255 (in the artist's studio, 1975).
Tom Patterson. "Guston's '40s Works Frame His Future." Charlotte Observer (May 18, 1997), p. 4F.
Innis Howe Shoemaker. Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 2009, p. 169 n. 5, dates it about 1944.
Clark Coolidge, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley, 2011, ill. p. 9.
David Sylvester. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. Bern, 2013, p. 24, fig. 7 (color), dates it about 1944.
Jackie Wullschläger. "Star-Spangled Biennale: Americans Shine in Venice." ft.com. May 12, 2017, ill. (color).
Niccolò Lucarelli. "Dal Rinascimento a Bukowski. Philip Guston pittore-poeta a Venezia." artslife.com. May 11, 2017, ill. (color).
"Philip Guston and the Poets @ Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia." art-it.asia. May 25, 2017, ill. (color, installation photo, Exh. Venice 2017).
Robert Storr. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London, 2020, p. 30, no. 18, ill. pp. 31 (color), 326 (in the artist's studio).
Harry Cooper inPhilip Guston Now. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 2020, p. 28, colorpl. 21.
Alison de Lima Greene inPhilip Guston Now. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 2020, p. 186.
Holland Cotter. "True to His Ferocious Spirit." New York Times (April 29, 2022), p. C14, ill. (color, installation photo, Exh. Boston 2022).
Susan Saccoccia. "Spotlight Review: Philip Guston Now." Art New England 43 (July/August 2022), p. 67.
Rosa Boshier González. "Philip Guston Now." brooklynrail.org. December 2022–January 2023, dates it 1941.
Phong Bui. "Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation." brooklynrail.org. May 2023, ill. (color, installation photo, Exh. Washington 2023).
Clark Coolidge, ed. Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Philip Guston: Écrits, conférences et entretiens, 1944–1980. 2nd ed. (1st ed., 2010]). [Strasbourg], 2023, p. 623, fig. 5 (color), 184 (the artist's studio, 1970).
Saul Nelson. "Insomniac Visions." newleftreview.org. November 24, 2023.
The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024–25 (accessed), no. P44.002, ill. (color).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1936
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