Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left): Philip Guston/1946
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1946–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)
Bilbao. Sala Rekalde. "Philip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo / Roots of Drawing," May 11–June 30, 1993, no. 8 (as "Sin título [Untitled]").
Iowa City. University of Iowa Museum of Art. "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties," January 25–March 16, 1997, no. 14 (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. 14.
Utica, N.Y. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art. "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties," November 15, 1997–January 4, 1998, no. 14.
Kunstmuseum Bonn. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," March 1–May 20, 2007, no. 1 (lent by The Estate of Philip Guston).
Humlebæk. Louisiana Museum. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," May 31–August 26, 2007, no. 1.
Vienna. Albertina. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," September 7–November 25, 2007, no. 1.
Munich. Pinakothek der Moderne. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," December 13, 2007–March 2, 2008, no. 1.
New York. Morgan Library and Museum. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," May 2–August 31, 2008, no. 1.
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. "Philip Guston: Locating the Image," November 23, 2019–March 8, 2020, unnumbered cat. (fig. 23; lent by a private collection).
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Philip Guston Now," May 1–September 11, 2022, unnumbered cat. (pl. 22; 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.
Kosme Maria de Barañano inPhilip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo/Roots of Drawing. Ed. Kosme Maria de Barañano. Exh. cat., Sala Rekalde. Bilbao, 1993, pp. 24, 203, no. 8, ill. p. 78 (color).
Michael E. Shapiro inPhilip Guston: Working Through the Forties. Exh. cat., University of Iowa Museum of Art. Iowa City, 1997, pp. 8, 56, no. 14, ill. p. 47.
Michael E. Shapiro inPhilip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat., Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Fort Worth, 2003, pp. 30–31.
John Yau. "Philip Guston Works on Paper." brooklynrail.org. July – August 2008.
Karen Wilkin. "An Artist's Drawings Trace an Odd Trajectory." Wall Street Journal (June 12, 2008), p. D11.
Barbara A. MacAdam. "Reviews: New York: Up Now: Philip Guston." Art News 107 (June 2008), p. 124.
Karen Wilkin. "Philip Guston: Full Circle." Hopkins Review 7 (Fall 2014), ill. p. 506 (color).
Karen Lang. Philip Guston: Locating the Image. Exh. cat., Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Oxford, 2019, p. 37, fig. 23 (color).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1936
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