Catalogue Raisonné
P70.017
Oil on canvas
75¼ x 114¼ in.
191.1 x 290.2 cm
Signed front lower center: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "EVIDENCE" (underlined). 1970/ OIL . 75 1/4 x 114 1/4
- Provenance
- Collection SFMOMA, Gift of the artist
- Exhibitions
- Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Recent Paintings", October 17, 1970 - November 07, 1970
- Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, "New Paintings, Philip Guston", November 14, 1970 - December 13, 1970
- Art and Architecture Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT, "The Yale Art Students' Choice: 76-77", October 25, 1976 - November 26, 1976
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Philip Guston: New Works in San Francisco, December 21, 1978 - January 21, 1979
- Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982 Travelled to:
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Seven Artists in Depth: The Creative Process", August 07, 1986 - October 05, 1986
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "From Matisse to Diebenkorn: Selections from the Collection of Painting and Sculpture", January 18, 1995 - August 10, 1995
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Art of Four Decades: 1958 - 1998", June 05, 1998 - July 19, 1998
- McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Poor Richard by Philip Guston", September 07, 2001 - November 03, 2001 Travelled to:
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "75 Years of Looking Forward: Focus on Artists", September 29, 2009 - February 23, 2011
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Focus on Artists: Selections from the Collection", October 22, 2009 - May 23, 2010
- Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France, "Icônes américaines—Chefs-d’œuvre du SFMOMA et de la collection Fisher" (American Icons: Masterworks from SFMOMA and the Fisher Collection), April 08, 2015 - June 22, 2015 Travelled to:
- Bibliography
- Berkson, Bill. "The New Gustons." ARTnews, October 1970, pp. 44–47, 85, illus. in b&w p. 44
- Preston, Malcolm. "Art: Guston Exhibit at BU Gallery." Boston Herald Traveler, December 1970, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Pincus-Witten, Robert. "New York." Artforum, December 1970, pp. 74–75, illus. in b&w p. 74
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1970, cat. no. 17, illus. in color p. 21
- Kainen, Jacob. "Philip Guston's Work Goes Deeply Against the Grain of Current Art Practice." Washington Post, May 23, 1971, pp. 36–37, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Smith, Roberta. "The New Gustons." Art in America, January–February 1978, pp. 100–5, mentioned in text p. 103, not illus.
- Bloomfield, Arthur. "Looking Gift Art in the Mouth." San Francisco Examiner, December 27, 1978, p. 25, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Stoffley-Santiago, Mary. "Philip Guston—A Thorough Preview." Artweek, January 13, 1979, pp. 1, 16, illus. in b&w p. 1 and mentioned in text pp. 1 and 16
- Butterfield, Jan. "A Very Anxious Fix: Philip Guston." Images & Issues, Summer 1980, pp. 30–35, illus. in b&w p. 31
- 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.
- Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 5, illus. in color p. 18 (unpaginated)
- Sweet, David. "Philip Guston and Beyond." Artscribe, December 1982, illus. in b&w p. 24
- Baker, Kenneth. "Seven for a Swan Song." San Francisco Chronicle Review, August 17, 1986, pp. 12-13, mentioned in text p. 13, not illus.
- November Writer-in-Residence William Corbett. Intersection for the Arts. Flyer. October–November, [c. 1993].
- Baker, Kenneth. "Shock of the New: Embracing Guston's Late Work at SFMOMA." San Francisco Chronicle, August 10, 2003, section Datebook, pp. 9–10, mentioned in text p. 10, not illus.
- Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, Plate 11, illus. in color p. 174
- Baker, Kenneth. "Decoding Philip Guston's later work at SFMOMA." San Francisco Chronicle, February 14, 2010. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Martin, Andrew. "Guston Goes Electric." IDIOM, June 8, 2011. Online, illus. in color
- Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, mentioned in text p. 294, not illus.
- Slifkin, Robert. Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, illus. in color plate 6, detail illus. in b&w fig. 11 p. 40
- Pfeiffer, Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Philip Guston Das Grosse Spatwerk/Late Works. Exh. cat. Cologne: Strzeleckibooks, 2013, illus. in color fig. 5 p. 78 (Harold Falckenberg essay) and mentioned in text p. 76 (English)/79 (German)
- Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. New York: American Academy in Rome; New York Review of Books, 2014, illus. in color Fig. 41 p. 113 (unpaginated). Also mentioned in text pp. 101 and 111-112
- Icônes américaines—Chefs-d'œuvre du SFMOMA et de la collection Fisher. Exh. cat. Paris: Editions de la Reunion des Musées Nationaux, 2015, cat. no. 18, illus. in color p. 71
- Philip Guston: Nixon Drawings 1971 & 1975. Exh. cat. Essays by Musa Mayer and Debra Bricker-Balken. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color Fig. 6 p. 193
- Burnett, Craig. "Pigment and Epistemology." In Luca Bertolo 2012–2017 La Belle Parole/ The Beautiful Words. Exh. cat. Milan: Mousse, 2017, mentioned in text p. 9, not illus.
- Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color p. 66
- Columbus, Nikki. "Guston Can Wait." n+1, October 27, 2020. Online, illus. in color
- Elliott, David. "The Unstoppable Paintings of Philip Guston." Border Crossings, November 2020, pp. 48-55, mentioned in text p. 50, not illus.
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 122 illus. in color p. 127, illus. in b&w p. 319 as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text pp. 122 and 131
