Yellow Light

Inscription: Signed (lower left): Philip Guston

the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1975–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)

Norfolk, Va. Chrysler Museum. "American Figure Painting 1950–1980," October 17–November 30, 1980, unnumbered cat. (p. 30; lent courtesy of David McKee Inc., New York).

Boston University Art Gallery. "Philip Guston 1975–1980: Private and Public Battles," September 17–October 30, 1994, unnumbered cat. (pl. 1; lent by a private collection, courtesy McKee Gallery, New York).

Kunstmuseum Bonn. "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947–1979," September 2–November 1, 1999, unnumbered cat. (p. 107; lent by a private collection).

Kunstverein Stuttgart. "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947–1979," February 16–April 24, 2000, unnumbered cat.

Ottawa. National Gallery of Canada. "Philip Guston: Paintings of Four Decades," May 12–July 30, 2000, unnumbered cat.

Paris. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou. "Philip Guston Peintures 1947–1979," September 13–December 4, 2000, unnumbered cat. (p. 70; lent by a private collection).

Kunstmuseum Bonn. "Die Sammlung: Color and Content," December 15, 2010–January 1, 2011, no catalogue.

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. "Philip Guston: Das große Spätwerk / Late Works," November 6, 2013–February 2, 2014, unnumbered cat. (pp. 46–47; lent by a private collection).

Hamburg. Deichtorhallen Hamburg Hall for Contemporary Art. "Philip Guston Late Works," February 22–May 25, 2014, unnumbered cat.

Humlebaek. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. "Philip Guston Late Works," June 4–September 7, 2014, unnumbered cat.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Philip Guston Now," May 1–September 11, 2022, unnumbered cat. (pl. 149; lent by a private collection).

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "Philip Guston Now," October 23, 2022–January 15, 2023, unnumbered cat.

Thomas W. Styron. American Figure Painting 1950–1980. Exh. cat., Chrysler Museum. Norfolk, Va., 1980, pp. 9, 112, ill. p. 30.

Robert Storr. Philip Guston. New York, 1986, no. 57, ill. p. 58 (color).

Cate McQuaid. "Battleground: How Philip Guston Fought the War to Create Art." Boston Phoenix (September 23, 1994), p. 11.

Nancy Stapen. "Painting as Salvation: Philip Guston Exhibit at Boston University Offers Profound Rewards." Boston Sunday Globe (October 2, 1994), p. B6.

Mary Drach McInnes in Philip Guston 1975–1980: Private and Public Battles. Exh. cat., Boston University Art Gallery. Boston, 1994, pp. 10–12, 62, colorpl. 1.

Joseph Ablow. "Ordered Terror: The Art of Philip Guston." Bostonia Magazine (Fall 1994), ill. p. 25 (color).

Jean Graves in Philip Guston 1975–1980: Private and Public Battles. Exh. cat., Boston University Art Gallery. Boston, 1994, p. 42.

Martin Hentschel in Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947–1979. Ed. Christoph Schreier et al. Exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bonn. Ostfildern-Ruit, 1999, pp. 56–57, 140, ill. p. 107 (color).

Robert Storr in "The Collection." The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection and Plaza Memorials. New York, 2002, p. 77, fig. 3 (color).

Judith Bookbinder. Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism. Durham, N.H., 2005, pp. 256–57, 328–29 n. 75.

Ingrid Pfeiffer in Philip Guston: Das Grosse Spätwerk/Late Works. Ed. Ingrid Pfeiffer and Max Hollein. Exh. cat., Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Cologne, 2013, pp. 18–19, 149, ill. pp. 46–47 (color), opposite title page (color, detail).

Robert Storr. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London, 2020, p. 197, no. 190, ill. p. 182 (color).

Mark Godfrey in Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 2020, p. 200, colorpl. 149.

Vivienne Chow. "The Met Now Boasts the World's Largest Collection of Philip Guston's Work, Thanks to a 220-Piece Gift by the Artist's Daughter." news.artnet.com. December 15, 2022.

Philip Guston. Lyon, 2022, ill. pp. 52–53 (color).

Garland Fielder. "Review: 'Philip Guston Now' at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston." glasstire.com. December 6, 2022, ill. (color, installation photo).

Alex Greenberger. "Metropolitan Museum to Receive 220-Work Philip Guston Gift from the Artist’s Daughter." artnews.com. December 14, 2022, ill. (color).

"The Met Museum Receives Gift of 220 Philip Guston Works From His Daughter." lavocedinewyork.com. December 14, 2022.

Rachel Haidu. "Shapes, Wholes, History." October 185 (Summer 2023), p. 103, ill. p. 108, calls it "Yellow Sea" in text.

The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024–25 (accessed), no. P75.042, ill. (color).