Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left): P.G. 1980
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (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)
Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection. "Philip Guston: 1980 / The Last Works," March 21–May 24, 1981, no. 2.
Cleveland Museum of Art. "Philip Guston: 1980 / The Last Works," June 6–September 13, 1981, no. 2.
Pittsburgh. Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute. "Philip Guston: 1980 / The Last Works," October 10, 1981–January 3, 1982, no. 2.
New York. David McKee Gallery. "Philip Guston: 1980 / The Last Works," January 12–February 12, 1982, no catalogue.
London. Whitechapel Art Gallery. "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980," October 13–December 12, 1982, not in catalogue.
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980," January 13–March 6, 1983, not in catalogue.
Kunsthalle Basel. "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980," May 8–June 19, 1983, not in catalogue.
Cambridge, Mass. Hayden Gallery. "Philip Guston: The Last Works Paintings and Drawings 1979–1980," October 13–November 25, 1984, no catalogue.
Greenville, S.C. Greenville County Museum of Art. "Philip Guston," February 11–April 6, 1986, unnumbered cat. (lent by the estate of Philip Guston; courtesy of The David McKee Gallery, New York).
Raleigh. North Carolina Museum of Art. "Philip Guston," May 17–July 27, 1986, unnumbered cat.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "The Drawings of Philip Guston," September 8–November 1, 1988, no. 146 (lent by a private collection, New York).
Amsterdam. Museum Overholland. "Philip Guston (The Drawings of Philip Guston)," January 14–March 12, 1989, no. 146.
Barcelona. Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions. "Dibuixos: Philip Guston," March 30–May 14, 1989, no. 146 (lent by a private collection, New York).
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. "The Drawings of Philip Guston," May 28–July 23, 1989, no. 146.
Dublin. Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College. "The Drawings of Philip Guston," August 9–September 16, 1989, no. 146.
Rome. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea. "Philip Guston: Opere Su Carta 1933–1980," October 11–November 26, 1989, no. 117 (lent by a private collection, New York).
Bilbao. Sala Rekalde. "Philip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo / Roots of Drawing," May 11–June 30, 1993, no. 116 (as "Sin título (Escalera en el Mar) [Untitled (Ladder on Sea)]," lent by a private collection).
Les Sables d'Olonne, France. Musee de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix. "Philip Guston (1913-1980): Oeuvres sur papier 1975-1980," June 24–September 30, 1995 (one of nos. 10–12, 14, 16, 20, or 28; lent by Succession Philip Guston, Courtesy McKee Gallery, New York).
Seville. Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo. "Los Excesos de la Mente," May 29–September 22, 2002, unnumbered cat. (p. 105; as "Sin título (Ladder on Sea) (Escalera en el mar)," lent by a private collection. Courtesy McKee Gallery. New York).
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. "Philip Guston Retrospective," March 30–June 8, 2003, unnumbered cat. (pl. 137; as "Untitled (Ladder)", lent by a private collection).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Philip Guston Retrospective," June 28–September 27, 2003, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Philip Guston Retrospective," October 28, 2003–January 4, 2004, unnumbered cat.
London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Philip Guston Retrospective," January 24–April 12, 2004, unnumbered cat.
Munich. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung. "Philip Guston, Drei Blicke: Die Gesamte Druckgraphik Letzte Acryl-Arbeiten auf Papier Zeichnungen für Dichter," March 26–June 28, 2015, unnumbered cat. (p. 15; as "Untitled (Ladder on Sea)," lent by a private collection).
Venice. Gallerie dell'Accademia. "Philip Guston and the Poets," May 10–September 3, 2017, unnumbered cat. (p. 109; lent by a private collection).
Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. "Philip Guston Now," March 2–August 27, 2023, unnumbered cat. (pl. 180; lent by a private collection).
Paul Richard. "The Gusto of Guston." Washington Post (April 9, 1981), ill. p. D1.
Stephen Westfall. "Philip Guston." Arts Magazine 56 (April 1982), p. 21, ill.
"Art Museum Opens New Exhibits." Greenville News and Greenville Piedmont (S.C.) (February 8, 1986), ill. p. 12.
Magdalena Dabrowski. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1988, pp. 42, 175, no. 146, ill. frontispiece (color), p. 164 (color).
Theodore F. Wolff. "Philip Guston's Wide-Ranging 50-Year Career in Art." Christian Science Monitor (September 26, 1988), p. 20, ill.
International Council and International Program of The Museum of Modern Art: Annual Report 1988–89 (1988–1989), ill. (color, front cover).
Kay Larson. "Art." New York 21 (September 12, 1988), ill. p. 64 (color).
Kosme de Barañano inPhilip Guston: One-Shot-Painting/De Un Solo Aliento. Exh. cat., IVAM / Institut Valencia d'Art Modern. [Valencia], 2001, ill. p. 38 (color), calls it "Untitled (Ladder on Sea) (Sin título [Escalera en el Mar])".
Michael Auping. "Philip Guston Retrospective." American Art Review 15 (July–August 2003), p. 139.
Christopher Bucklow. What is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. [Grasmere], 2007, pp. 147–49, 206, colorpl. 52, calls it "Untitled – Ladder on Sea"; in the text, erroneously locates it in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Musa Mayer. Philip Guston. London, 2020, p. 104, ill. p. 111 (color).
Musa Mayer. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 7th [1st ed, 1988]. [Zurich], 2023, p. 364, fig. 110 (color).
The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024–25 (accessed), no. P80.012, ill. (color).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1936
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