Catalogue Raisonné
P78.043
Oil on canvas
68 x 88 in.
172.7 x 223.5 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
- Provenance
- Des Moines Art Center, Purchased with funds from the Coffin Fine Arts Trust; Nathan Emory Coffin Collection of the Des Moines Art Center, 1991.48
- Doris and Charles Saatchi, London
- Exhibitions
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "1979 Biennial Exhibition", February 06, 1979 - April 01, 1979
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980 Travelled to:
- Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982 Travelled to:
- The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, "The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections 1940-1980", November 20, 1983 - February 19, 1984
- Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland, "Art of Our Time", August 09, 1987 - August 31, 1987
- Saatchi Gallery, London, England, "Leon Golub, Sigmar Polke, Philip Guston, Joel Shapiro: the Saatchi Collection", April 29, 1988 - September 01, 1988
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989 Travelled to:
- Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany, "Concert Eberhard Blum in Honor to Morton Feldman", January 21, 1996
- Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, "From Body to Being: Reflections on the Human Image", February 01, 1997 - April 29, 1997
- Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, "Commitment, Community and Controversy: The Des Moines Art Center Collections", January 24, 1998 - May 10, 1998
- Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, "Shifting Visions: O'Keefe, Guston, Richter", October 10, 1998 - January 24, 1999
- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003 Travelled to:
- Bibliography
- Zimmer, William. "Art for the Me Decade." SoHo Weekly News, March 1, 1979, pp. 39, 41, illus. in b&w p. 39
- Saunders, Wade. "Art Inc.: The Whitney's 1979 Biennial." Art in America, May–June 1979, pp. 96–97, illus. in color p. 96
- 1979 Biennial Exhibition. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1979, unnumbered catalog, not illus.
- Demoro, Harre W. "SCM Sponsoring S.F. Modern Art Exhibit with More Than Altruism in Mind." San Francisco Business Journal, May 26, 1980, pp. 14–15, illus. p. 14
- Toucatt, Ralph. "Metamorphosis: The Art of Philip Guston." The Threepenny Review, Fall 1980, p. 24, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 91, illus. in color plate 80 p. 122
- Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 31, illus. in color p. 42 (unpaginated)
- The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections 1940-1980. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1983, illus. in color p. 267
- Fuchs, Rudi, Hilton Kramer, and Peter Schjeldahl. Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection, vol. 3. London: Lund Humphries, 1984, illus. in color Plate 26 pp. 62-63 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text p. 14 (Peter Schjeldahl essay)
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in b&w no. 47 p. 51 and mentioned in text p. 56
- Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection. Exh. cat. Royal Scottish Academy, [1987], illus. in color p. 12
- Welish, Marjorie. "I Confess: The Drawings of Philip Guston." Arts Magazine, November 1988, pp. 46–50, mentioned in text p. 50, not illus.
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, mentioned in text p. 157, not illus.
- Fernandez, Horacio. "El Último Perplejo." El Europeo, March 1989, pp. 66-74, illus. in color p. 67 and small image repeated on pp. 68, 70, 72 & 74
- Peele, Stanton. "Ain't Misbehaving: Addition Has Become an All-Purpose Excuse." Sciences, July/August 1989, pp. 14–21, illus. p. 18
- Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura. Exh. cat. Essays by Mark Rosenthal, Robert Storr, Carrie Rickey, Francisco Calvo Serraller, and Dore Ashton. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, Centro Nacional de Exposiciones, 1989, cat. no. 64, illus. in color p. 140
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. 1988. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1990, mentioned in text p. 157, not illus.
- Nusbaum, Eliot. "Art Center Purchases Two New Works." Des Moines Register, December 31, 1991, section Metro and Iowa News, p. M1, illus. in b&w p. M1
- Schjeldahl, Peter. The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978–1990. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991, mentioned in text p. 230, not illus.
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, London: Thames and Hudson, 1991, mentioned in text p. 157, not illus.
- Orduna, Arthur. "I. Michael Danoff, Director of the Des Moines Art Center: A New Perspective." Des Moines Skywalker, January 22-29, 1992, p. 11.
- DMAC News, March/April 1992, illus. on cover
- Nusbaum, Eliot. "Guston's 'Friend': A Daring Choice." Des Moines Register, June 7, 1992, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
- Corbett, William. "Prologue: Marlborough Gallery October 1970." Agni 35 (1992), pp. 165–68, mentioned in text pp. 167-168, not illus.
- Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text p. 8, not illus.
- Kimmelman, Michael. "The Abstract Expressionist of Music." The New York Times, July 28, 1996, section 2 Arts & Leisure, p. 28, illus. in b&w
- Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit. Exh. cat. Bremen: Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, 1996, illus. in b&w p. 75
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Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. Reprint, Boston: Da Capo Press, 1997.
, mentioned in text p. 157, not illus. - DeLong, Lea Rosson. Shifting Visions O'Keeffe Guston Richter. Exh. cat. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1998, illus. in color p. 50 and mentioned in text pp. 49-51
- An Uncommon Vision: The Des Moines Art Center. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1998, illus. in color p. 129 and mentioned in text p. 128
- Welish, Marjorie. "The Art of Philip Guston." In Signifying Art: Essays on Art After 1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, mentioned in text pp. 149 and 156, not illus.
- Ottinger, Didier. La Trahison de Philip Guston. Paris: L'Echoppe, 2000, mentioned in text p. 8, not illus.
- Friedman, B. H., ed. Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman. Cambridge: Exact Change, 2000, illus. in color on front cover
- Blum, Eberhard. Choice & Change. Berlin: Berlinische Galerie, 2000, illus. in b&w p. 110, 153 and 155
- Gibson, Robin. Painting The Century: 101 Portrait Masterpieces. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2001, illus. in color Fig. 7 p. 26 and mentioned in text pp. 26 and 40-41
- Danto, Arthur C. "The Abstract Impressionist." Nation, December 11, 2003. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Feld, Ross. Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003, illus. in b&w (no page #) and mentioned in text p. 71
- Feld, Ross. Erinnerungen an Philip Guston Mit dem Briefwechsel zwischen Feld und Guston. Kippenheim-Schmieheim: Verlag Kurt Liebig, 2003, illus. in color p. 77
- Intuition & Response: Masterworks from the Edward R. Broida Collection. Exh. cat. Jacksonville: Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, 2003, color photo p. 6, reference p. 7
- Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 123, unpaginated
- Roth, Philip. "The Odd Couple." Sunday Telegraph Magazine, January 4, 2004, pp. 16–19, illus. in color p. 18
- Searle, Adrian. "The Devil Inside: Philip Guston Was a Smoking, Boozing, Pill-Popping, Anxiety-Ridden Work-Obsessive. And It's All There in His Astonishing Work, Says Adrian Searle." Guardian, January 20, 2004, pp. 12–13, illus. in color p. 1 above masthead
- Rubinstein, Raphael. "Philip Guston: Some Thoughts." Art in America, March 2004, mentioned in text p. 87, not illus.
- Smith, Craig. "Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Flute." Santa Fe New Mexican, January 18–24, 2008, p. 30, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- FALTER 40/10, Wein Modern 10. "Die Zeitlosigkeit unter der Mitternachtssonne." June 10, 2010, illus. in color pg. 5 and illus. in color on cover
- Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts. Exh. cat. Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2010, illus. in color p. 65
- Sylvester, David. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. NichtSoKleineBibliothek 8. Bern: Piet Meyer Verlag, 2013, illus. in color p. 73, illus. no. 27
- Burnett, Craig. Philip Guston: The Studio. London: Afterall Books, 2014, illus. in color plate 13 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text p. 67
- 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. 35 p. 96 (unpaginated). Also mentioned in text p. 95
- Micchelli, Thomas. "Flesh and Bones: Philip Guston's 'Thingness.'" Hyperallergic, April 30, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Schwabsky, Barry. "The Chameleon Painter: Even in His Most Pared-Down Paintings, Philip Guston Was Digging for Something New." Nation, June 1, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Lavista, Mario. Cuaderno de música. 2013. Reprint, Mexico City: El Colegio Nacional, 2016, illus. in color p. 101
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Munich: Sieveking Verlag; Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, mentioned in text p. 218, not illus.
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: Un ritratto intimo di Philip Guston. Monza: Johan & Levi, 2017, mentioned in text p. 180, not illus.
- Página/12 (Buenos Aires). "Agenda: Del domingo 17 al sábado 23: SÁBADO 23, MÚSICA." November 17, 2019. Online, illus. in color
- Conversations on Artists' Estates & Modern Masters for Art Basel 2019. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2019, illus. in color and mentioned in text p. 84
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 94 illus. in color p. 103 and mentioned in text pp. 103 and 180
- Roelstraete, Dieter. "Die Angst Vor Der Kunst." Monopol, September 2022, pp. 54-66., mentioned in text p. 58, not illus.
- Philip Guston. Lyon: FAGE éditions, 2022, illus. in color p. 61
- Feld, Ross. Guston In Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003. Reprint, New York: New York Review of Books, 2022, illus. in color (no page #) and mentioned in text p. 67
- Dohoney, Ryan. Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, illus. in b&w Fig. 4.4 p. 163 and mentioned in text pp. 163, 166, and 172
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2023, mentioned in text p. 218, not illus.
- Note
- M.F. = Morton Feldman
