Catalogue Raisonné
P69.127
Oil on canvas
77 x 128 in.
195.6 x 325.1 cm
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston
- Provenance
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bequest of Musa Guston, 1992.509
- Exhibitions
- Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Recent Paintings", October 17, 1970 - November 07, 1970
- Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, "Philip Guston: A New Alphabet, The Late Transition", April 25, 2000 - July 30, 2000 Travelled to:
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "War and Discontent", April 10, 2007 - August 05, 2007
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022
- Bibliography
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1970, cat. no. 12, not illus.
- Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 168
- King, Mary. "The Guston Retrospective: A 'Grim Mirror to Our Time.'" St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 1, 1981, section Music, the Arts, p. 5G, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, mentioned in text p. 54, not illus.
- Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, mentioned in text p. 57 as part of transcription of Guston talk at U. of Minnesota, 1978, not illus.
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, mentioned in text p. 70, not illus.
- Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 168
- Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit. Exh. cat. Bremen: Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, 1996, mentioned in text p. 100, not illus.
- DeLong, Lea Rosson. Shifting Visions O'Keeffe Guston Richter. Exh. cat. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1998, mentioned in text p. 49 as part of "the Deluge series", not illus.
- Wohlauer, Gilian Shallcross. MFA: A Guide to the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1999.
- McQuaid, Cate. "Guston's Art is Darkness Come to Light." Boston Globe, October 28, 2000, p. F5, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Weber, Joanna, Harry Cooper, and Laura Greengold. Philip Guston A New Alphabet: The Late Transition. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2000, illus. in color Plate 11
- Philip Guston: With a Lecture Given by Philip Guston at the University of Minnesota in March 1978. Exh. cat. London: Timothy Taylor Gallery, 2004, mentioned in text pp. 32-33, not illus., listed as "Deluge"
- Zaller, Robert. "The Abandoned Studio: Philip Guston's Gnostic Testament." Boulevard 20, no. 2-3 (2005): pp. 100–18, mentioned in text p. 114, not illus.
- Shallcross, Gilian Ford. MFA Handbook: A Guide to the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2009.
- Smee, Sebastian. "Telling Vivid Stories with a Paintbrush." Boston Globe, March 13, 2011, p. N6, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, mentioned in text pp. 224 and 284, not illus.
- Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, illus. in b&w Fig. 3.10 p. 79 and in color Plate 15 (no page number) and mentioned in text pp. 78-79
- Giuliano, Charles. "Philip Guston Now to Not Now: What He Meant to Boston Artists." Berkshire Fine Arts, September 26, 2020. Online, illus. in color as part of a slideshow and mentioned in text
- Cooper, Harry, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, and Kate Nesin. Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020, illus. in color Fig. 4 (Kate Nesin essay) p. 212 and mentioned in text pp. 200, 212-213, and 246n24
- A Guide to the Collections, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: MFA Publications, 2020, illus. in color p. 405
- Saenger, Peter. "Philip Guston Made Images That Spark Arguments." Wall Street Journal, April 22, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Saenger, Peter. "Images That Spark Arguments." Wall Street Journal, April 23-24, 2022, p. C14, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Gay, Malcolm. "Are we ready to look at 'Philip Guston Now'?" Boston Globe, April 30, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Economist. "Philip Guston's paintings are controversial. But here they are." April 30, 2022. Online, illus. in color
- The Art Wolf. "Philip Guston, a much-needed retrospective. May 2, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Dafoe, Taylor. "An Off-Ramp, a Trauma Specialist, and Preparedness Pamphlets: How the MFA Boston Reworked Its Philip Guston Retrospective." artnet News, May 5, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Baldini, Alessandra. "Gli 'incappucciati' di Philip Guston approdano in museo All'MFA di Boston con avvertenze per il pubblico" ANSA ViaggiArt, May 11, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Bowen, Jared. 'Philip Guston Now' portrays art of controversial and confrontational painter. Washington D.C.: PBS News Hour, May 12, 2022. Video, illus. in color as part of a photo with curators
- Harrington, Leah Triplett. "The MFA Boston Embraced Hard Conversations in Its Philip Guston Show. Why Doesn't It Examine Its Collection Just as Critically?" artnet News, May 26, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Naves, Mario. "Finding Context: After a nearly two-year postponement, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston became the first of four venues to open the Philip Guston Now exhibition." Art & Antiques, June 2022, pp. 34-39, illus. in color p. 39
- Fendrich, Laurie. "Philip Guston's existential ferocity." Two Coats of Paint, June 1, 2022. Online, illus. in color
- Bolton-Fasman, Judy. "The Art and Social Conscience of Jewish Artist Philip Guston." JewishBoston, June 28, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of slideshow and mentioned in text
- Yau, John. "Philip Guston's Haunted Testimonies." Hyperallergic, August 18, 2022. Online, illus. in color
- Samudzi, Zoé. "Under the Hood." Jewish Currents, November 16, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Bui, Phong. "Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation." Brooklyn Rail, May 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Bui, Phong. "Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation." Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2023, pp. 48-49, mentioned in text p. 49, not illus.
- Chambaz, Bernard. La Terre en colère: Déluges, séismes et autres catastrophes. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2023, illus. in color pp. 18-19 and mentioned in text pp. 16-17
