Inscription: Signed (lower center): Philip Guston; inscribed (verso): PHILIP GUSTON/ "ALONE" [underlined] 1971/ OIL - 52 x 93 1/2
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1971–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)
Boston University, School of Fine & Applied Arts Gallery. "Philip Guston: New Paintings," March 15–April 14, 1974, no. 19.
Detroit. Gertrude Kasle Gallery. "Philip Guston," November 9–December 12, 1974, no catalogue (checklist no. 1.
Hauser & Wirth, New York. "Philip Guston: Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975," November 1, 2016–January 28, 2017, unnumbered cat. (p. 10; lent by a private collection).
Hauser & Wirth, London. "Philip Guston: Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975," May 19–July 29, 2017, unnumbered cat.
Los Angeles. Hauser & Wirth. "Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971," September 14, 2019–January 5, 2020, unnumbered cat. (p. 168; lent by a private collection).
Philip Guston. Letter to Bill Berkson. January 4, 1972 [published in Exh. Los Angeles 2019–20 catalogue, p. 169], describes this work as "the strangest image I've ever painted".
Kenneth Baker. "Philip Guston at Boston University." Art in America 62 (May–June 1974), p. 115.
Musa Mayer. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 4th ed. [1st ed., 1988]. [New York], 1997, fig. 68.
Manuel Botelho. Guston em contexto: Até ao regresso da figura. [Lisbon], 2007, p. 137.
Alina Cohen. "Philip Guston's Man Beyond Redemption." thenation.com. November 26, 2016, ill. (color).
David Ambrose. "Philip Guston: Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975 at Hauser & Wirth Gallery." whitehotmagazine.com. December 2016.
John Yau. "Guston After Trump and Before Christmas." hyperallergic.com. December 11, 2016, ill. (color).
Sarah Cowan. "Poor Richard." theparisreview.org. December 13, 2016, ill. (color).
Bradley Rubenstein. "In a Political Nemesis, Philip Guston Found His Greatest Muse." artslant.com. November 15, 2016, ill. (color).
"Philip Guston. Laughter in the Dark." meer.com. December 13, 2016.
Benjamin Sutton. "In Philip Guston’s Nixon Drawings, a Tool Kit for Satirizing Loathsome Presidents." hyperallergic.com. November 12, 2016, ill. (color, installation photo, Exh. New York 2016–17).
"As America Heads to the Polls, Philip Guston’s ‘Nixon Drawings’ Go On View in New York City." nyartsmagazine.net. Fall 2016.
Hyunjee Nicole Kim. "Philip Guston's Nixon Drawings Are a Lesson in Satire." apollo-magazine.com. January 18, 2017, ill. (color).
"Philip Guston Nixon Drawings Revisited in the Age Of Trump — Hauser & Wirth." artlyst.com. May 15, 2017.
Riccardo Venturi. "Biennale di Venezia | Gallerie dell'Accademia / Le profetiche caricature di Philip Guston." doppiozero.com. May 11, 2017, ill. (color).
Eddy Frankel. "Philip Guston: Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975." timeout.com. May 18, 2017, ill. (color).
Musa Mayer inPhilip Guston: Nixon Drawings 1971 & 1975. Ed. Musa Mayer and Sally Radic. Exh. cat., Hauser & Wirth, New York. [Zurich], 2017, p. 9, fig. 9 (color), ill. p. 34 (color, installation photo, Exh. New York 2016–17).
"Philip Guston." meer.com. May 24, 2017.
"Three Shows You Have to See - Still on and Still Great." Time Out London (June 13, 2017), ill. p. 79 (color).
Chris Ware. "Caricature: Or, Guston's Graphic Novel." nybooks.com. February 6, 2018, ill. (color).
Patrick James Dunagan. "Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971." Rain Taxi 24 (Winter 2019), p. 24.
Robert Storr. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London, 2020, pp. 139, 152–53, no. 136, ill. (color).
Musa Mayer. Philip Guston. London, 2020, p. 85, ill. pp. 80–81 (color).
The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024–25 (accessed), no. P71.130, ill. (color).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1936
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