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P40.008

Gladiators, 1940
Oil and pencil on canvas
24½ x 28 in.
62.2 x 71.1 cm
Signed front lower left: P. GUSTON
Provenance
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Edward R. Broida
Edward R. Broida
Dr. and Mrs. Joel Freedman, New York
Exhibitions
Iowa Memorial Union, Iowa City, IA, "Paintings and Drawings by Philip Guston", March 05, 1944 - March 19, 1944 
Midtown Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", January 15, 1945 - February 10, 1945 
Institute of Modern Art, Boston, MA, "Twelve Americans", March 08, 1946 - April 07, 1946
Watkins Institute, Nashville, TN, "[Unknown Title]", October 01, 1948 - October 23, 1948
Michigan State College, East Lansing, MI, "[Unknown Title]", February 06, 1949 - February 24, 1949
University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, "Philip Guston", April 10, 1950 - May 12, 1950 
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989  Travelled to:
Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", May 25, 1989 - July 16, 1989
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", September 09, 1989 - October 22, 1989
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", November 19, 1989 - January 14, 1990
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties", January 25, 1997 - March 16, 1997  Travelled to:
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties", April 09, 1997 - June 29, 1997
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY, "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties", November 15, 1997 - January 04, 1998
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, "The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works", March 12, 1998 - June 21, 1998
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003  Travelled to:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston Retrospective", June 28, 2003 - September 27, 2003
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Retrospective", October 27, 2003 - January 04, 2004
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, "Philip Guston Retrospective", January 24, 2004 - April 12, 2004
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection", May 03, 2006 - July 10, 2006
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, "Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico", September 09, 2006 - November 25, 2006
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture", October 03, 2010 - April 25, 2011 Travelled to:
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, "Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture", May 28, 2011 - September 04, 2011
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Painting and Sculpture Changes 2011", December 09, 2011 - June 19, 2012
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, "Mexico: A Revolution in Art 1910 - 1940", July 06, 2013 - September 29, 2013
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022  Travelled to:
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "Philip Guston Now", October 23, 2022 - January 15, 2023
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston Now", March 02, 2023 - August 27, 2023
Tate Modern, London, England, "Philip Guston", October 05, 2023 - February 25, 2024
Bibliography
Janson, H. W. "'Martial Memory' by Philip Guston and American Painting Today." Bulletin of the City Art Museum of Saint Louis, December 1942, pp. 34–41, Fig. 3 illus. in b&w p. 41, titled as "Fighting Boys"
Daily Iowan. "Prof. Philip Guston's Paintings of Army, Navy on Display." March 5, 1944, p. 3, mentioned in text, not illus.
Paintings and Drawings by Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Iowa City: State University of Iowa, 1944, cat. no. 17, not illus.. No specific date for work listed
Breuning, Margaret. "Philip Guston Impresses in New York Debut." Art Digest, January 15, 1945, p. 12, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Midtown Galleries, 1945, cat. no. 11, not illus., listed as being from 1940
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Campbell, Ruth. "Art Exhibit at Watkins Is Fine Cultural Gesture." Tennessean, October 3, 1948, mentioned in text, not illus.
Lansing State Journal. "Two New York Exhibits Open on MSC Campus." February 6, 1949, section two, p. 11, illus. in b&w
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Minneapolis: University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1950, cat. no. 1, illus. in b&w no page #, listed as being from 1940
Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 48. Listed as being from 1940
Workman, Andree M. "Guston: A Born-Again Painter." West Art (Auburn, CA), June 13, 1980, pp. 1, 3, mentioned in text p. 3, not illus.
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Gallego, Julian. "El gusto de Guston." ABC (Madrid), March 2, 1989, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Brandenburg, John. "Seeing Guston's Art Requires a 'Leap' to Dallas." Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK), December 24, 1989, section Travel & Entertainment, p. 4, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Mack, Gerhard. "Philip Guston Künstler." Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst 36, no. 3 (1997): pp. 1–16, illus. in color fig. 2, p. 4
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Leydier, Richard. "Philip Guston l'heretique/The Heresies of Philip Guston." Art Press, October 2000, pp. 36–41, mentioned in text p. 39, not illus.
Newton, Steven James. Painting, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, illus. in b&w fig. 17 p. 122 and mentioned in text pp. 122-123
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Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 6, unpaginated (but would be p. 103) and mentioned in text pp. 23-24 (Michael E. Shapiro essay), briefly mentioned in text p. 76 (Joseph Rishel essay). Listed as from 1938.
Slifkin, Robert S. "Dark Unfathomed Retrospect." Art Journal 62, no. 4 (2003): pp. 105–08, mentioned in text p. 106, not illus.
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Antiques and the Arts Weekly (Newtown, CT). "'Against the Grain' at MoMA Highlights Broida Gift of Contemporary Works." June 2, 2006, illus. in b&w p. 22
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Melandri, Lisa, and Michael R. Taylor. Enigma Variations: Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico. Exh. cat. Santa Monica: Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2006, illus. in color Plate 8 p. 45. Listed as being from 1938
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Slifkin, Robert. "Philip Guston's Return to Figuration and the "1930s Renaissance" of the 1960s." The Art Bulletin 93, no. 2 (2011): pp. 220–42, mentioned in text n8 p. 239, not illus.
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