Catalogue Raisonné
P51.003
Oil on canvas
57⅞ x 61⅞ in.
147.0 x 157.2 cm
Unsigned, undated
- Provenance
- Collection SFMOMA, T. B. Walker Foundation Fund purchase
- Private Collection
- Exhibitions
- Peridot Gallery, New York, NY, "Paintings 1948-1951 by Philip Guston", January 02, 1952 - January 26, 1952
- University Galleries, University of Nebraska, Morrill Hall, Lincoln, NE, "Nebraska Art Association Sixty-Second Annual Exhibition", March 02, 1952 - March 30, 1952
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962 Travelled to:
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, "New York School The First Generation Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s", June 18, 1965 - August 01, 1965
- University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, "[Unknown Title]", May 22, 1971 - August 1971
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Philip Guston: New Works in San Francisco, December 21, 1978 - January 21, 1979
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980 Travelled to:
- University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties", January 25, 1997 - March 16, 1997 Travelled to:
- Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", September 02, 1999 - November 01, 1999 Travelled to:
- 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, "Matisse and Beyond: The Painting and Sculpture Collection", April 16, 2004 - September 02, 2009
- 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
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Selected Histories: 20th-Century Art from the SFMOMA Collection", September 05, 2012 - June 02, 2013
- Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, "Nothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 1947-1962", February 02, 2017 - April 01, 2017
- 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
- S[eckler], D[orothy]. "Reviews and Previews." ARTnews, January 1952, p. 44, illus. in b&w
- Nebraska Art Association Sixty-Second Annual Exhibition. Exh. cat. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1952, unnumbered catalog, not illus., shown as "#8-1951"
- Sandler, Irving. "Guston: A Long Voyage Home." ARTnews, December 1959, pp. 36–39, 64–65, illus. in b&w no. 5 p. 37, listed as "Number 8"
- Ashton, Dore. Philip Guston. New York: Grove, 1960, illus. in b&w (unpaginated), listed as "White Painting" and dated 1950
- Berkson, Bill. "Art Chronicle." Kulchur, Autumn 1962, pp. 30–40, mentioned in text p. 37, not illus., listed as "White Painting"
- Alloway, Lawrence. "Notes on Guston." Art Journal, Fall 1962, pp. 8–11, Fig. 2, illus. in b&w p. 8 and mention in text p. 9
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 14, illus. in b&w p. 55
- Lynton, Norbert. "London Letter." Art International, February 25, 1963, pp. 68–71, mentioned in text p. 70, not illus.
- Nordland, Gerald. "Review at Mid-Life." Frontier, July 1963, pp. 23–25, mentioned in text p. 24, not illus.
- Tuchman, Maurice. New York School, The First Generation: Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s. Paperback ed. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society Art Library, 1965, cat. no. 43, illus. in b&w p. 78
- Tuchman, Maurice. New York School, The First Generation: Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1965, cat. no. 39, illus. in b&w p. 104
- Berkson, William. "Dialogue with Philip Guston 11/1/64." Art and Literature, an International Review, Winter 1965, pp. 56–69, illus. p. 57
- Berkson, William. "Philip Guston: A New Emphasis: In These Canvases of the Sixties Doubt Itself Becomes a Form That Can Be Read as Natural Law." Arts Magazine, February 1966, pp. 15–18, mentioned in text, not illus. (as one of the White Paintings)
- Moritz, Charles, ed. Current Biography, February 1971, pp. 10-13, mentioned in text p. 12, not illus.
- Iowa City Press-Citizen. "Painting by Guston at Museum." May 24, 1971, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Daily Iowan. "Philip Guston." May 28, 1971, p. 4, work described in article, not illus.
- Tuchman, Maurice, ed. New York School: The First Generation. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1971, illus. in b&w no. 43, p. 78
- O'Hara, Frank. "Growth and Guston." In Art Chronicles 1954–1966. New York: George Braziller, 1975, pp. 134-141, mentioned in text p. 136, not illus.
- Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 102, mentioned in text p. 99
- Sandler, Irving. The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism. New York: Harper & Row, Icon Editions, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 263 fig. 19-31 and mentioned in text p. 264
- Stoffley-Santiago, Mary. "Philip Guston—A Thorough Preview." Artweek, January 13, 1979, pp. 1, 16, mentioned in text p. 16, not illus.
- Stevens, Mark. "An Interview with Philip Guston." New Republic, March 1980, illus. p. 60, reference p. 61
- Butterfield, Jan. "A Very Anxious Fix: Philip Guston." Images & Issues, Summer 1980, pp. 30–35, mentioned in text p. 35 as "White Painting #1", not illus.
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 19, illus. in b&w plate 19 p. 63 and mentioned in text p. 18
- Philip Guston. San Francisco Museum of Art, California. Exh. brochure. 1980, illus. in b&w center left inside fold
- 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.
- Greenwich Time. "Whitney's Guston Exhibit Spans Half-Century Career." June 27, 1981, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Grant, Daniel. "Philip Guston, Rebel Painter in Retrospect." Newsday, July 12, 1981, section Part II, pp. 17-18, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text p. 17
- Hill, Andrea. "No Picnic: Philip Guston at the Whitney." Artscribe, August 1981, pp. 19–21, mentioned in text p. 21, not illus.
- Philip Guston: Sus Ultimos Anos. Exh. cat. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1981, illus. in b&w fig. 2 p. 4
- Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, illus. in b&w p. 11 and mentioned in text p. 10
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in b&w no. 21 p. 26 no. 21 and mentioned in text pp. 25 and 34-35
- Dabrowski, Magdalena. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988, illus. in b&w Fig. 9 p. 22 and mentioned in text p. 22
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, illus. in b&w no. 29 (following p. 50) and mentioned in text p. 49
- Llorca, Pablo. "Philip Guston: Un pintor muy visceral." Dunia, July 1989, pp. 108–10, mentioned in text p. 110, not illus.
- Philip Guston, Opere Su Carta 1933–1980. Exh. cat. Milan: Electa, 1989, illus. in b&w fig. 9, p. 23
- Dabrowski, Magdalena. Dibuixos Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Barcelona: Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, 1989, illus. in b&w fig. 9 p. 34
- 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, illus. in b&w p. 24, no. 9 (Robert Storr essay)
- Anfam, David. Abstract Expressionism. London: Thames & Hudson, 1990, mentioned in text p. 155, not illus.
- Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 102
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. 1988. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1990, illus. in b&w no. 29 (following p. 50) and mentioned in text p. 49
- Oxlade, Roy. "Father Was Brilliant." Modern Painters, Summer 1991, pp. 101-102, mentioned in text p. 101, not illus.
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, London: Thames and Hudson, 1991, illus. in b&w no. 29 (following p. 50) and mentioned in text p. 49
- Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text p. 24, not illus.
- Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties. Exh. cat. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1997, Paintings cat. no. 16, illus. in color p. 36
- Mack, Gerhard. "Philip Guston Künstler." Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst 36, no. 3 (1997): pp. 1–16, mentioned in text p. 3, not illus.
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Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. Reprint, Boston: Da Capo Press, 1997.
, illus. in b&w no. 29 (following p. 50) and mentioned in text p. 49 - Haase, Amine. "Die Gewalt der lesbaren Bilder: Spektakulär Deutschland-Premiere des amerikanischen Malers Philip Guston." Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (Cologne), September 2, 1999, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Herzog, Samuel. "Stiller Abscheid vom Absoluten, Ausstellung Philip Guston im Kunstmuseum Bonn." Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich), October 15, 1999, mentioned in text as "White Painting", not illus.
- Schreier, Christoph, Michael Auping, and Martin Hentschel. Philip Guston: Gemalde 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1999, unnumbered catalog, illus. in color p. 67, shown in Bonn and Stuttgart
- 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.
- Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, illus. in color p. 67 and mentioned in text pp. 17, 33, 34
- Philip Guston Peintures 1947-1979. Exh. brochure. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2000, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Ottinger, Didier, and Philip Roth. Philip Guston: Peintures 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2000, illus. in color p. 52
- Newton, Steven James. Painting, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, illus. in b&w fig. 19 p. 125 and mentioned in text pp. 125 and 176
- Sylvester, David. Interviews with American Artists. New Haven: Yale University Press, January 2002, mentioned in text p. 366, not illus.
- Cooper, Harry. "Recognizing Guston (In Four Slips)." October 99 (2002): pp. 96–129, mentioned in text p. 126, not illus.
- Hancock, Trenton Doyle. "Philip Guston Retrospective: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth." Art Lies (Houston), Summer 2003, p. 67, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Odessa (TX) American. "Guston Paintings on Display at Met." October 29, 2003, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Kimmelman, Michael. "Anxious Liberator of an Era's Demons." The New York Times, October 31, 2003, section Weekend, pp. E37, E39, mentioned in text p. E39, not illus.
- USA Today (West Babylon, NY). "Philip Guston: Abstract Expressionism's Provocative Pioneer and Ultimate Critic." November 1, 2003, mentioned in text
- Minthorn, David. "Exhibit Honors Acclaimed Guston." Star-Gazette (Elmira, NY), November 2, 2003, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Kunitz, Daniel. "The Three Faces of Philip Guston." New York Sun, December 30, 2003, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 28, unpaginated (but would be p. 126) and mentioned in text p. 39
- Krauss, Nicole. "The First Painter after the Last." Modern Painters, Winter 2003, mentioned in text pp. 88, 89 and 90, not illus.
- Lambirth, Andrew. "Apocalyptic Vision." Spectator (London), January 24, 2004, p. 36, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Rubinstein, Raphael. "Philip Guston: Some Thoughts." Art in America, March 2004, mentioned in text p. 87, not illus.
- Ferguson, Russell. The Undiscovered Country. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2004, illus. in color p. 26
- Tinterow, Gary, Lisa Mintz Messinger, and Nan Rosenthal, eds. Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007, fig. 22 illus. in color and mentioned in text p. 84
- Schreier, Christoph, Poul Erik Tøjner, Isabel Dervaux, and Michael Semff. Philip Guston: Works on Paper. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007, fig. 2, illus. in color p. 47 (Christoph Schreier essay) and mentioned in text p. 46 (Christoph Schreier essay)
- Botelho, Manuel. Guston em contexto: até ao regresso da figura. Lisbon: Livros Vendaval, 2007, illus. in color and mentioned in text pp. 79 and 91
- Sandler, Irving. Abstract Expressionism and the American Experience: A Reevaluation. Lenox: Hard Press Editions, 2009, illus. in color p. 161 and mentioned in text p. 162
- Cooper, Harry. "Like Clockwork." Artforum, October 2010, mentioned in text p. 57, not illus.
- Siegel, Katy. Abstract Expressionism. New York: Phaidon, 2011, illus. in color p. 132
- Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, mentioned in text pp. 215, 255 and 297, not illus.
- Slifkin, Robert. Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, illus. in b&w fig. 65 p. 154
- Pfeiffer, Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Philip Guston Das Grosse Spatwerk/Late Works. Exh. cat. Cologne: Strzeleckibooks, 2013, mentioned in text p. 142 (English)/143 (German), not illus.
- Sylvester, David. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. NichtSoKleineBibliothek 8. Bern: Piet Meyer Verlag, 2013, illus. in color p. 102, illus. no. 37
- Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. New York: American Academy in Rome; New York Review of Books, 2014, mentioned in text p. 11, listed as being from 1950
- Storr, Robert. "Philip Guston: Hilarious and Horrifying." New York Review of Books, March 8, 2015. Online, mentioned in text, not illus, listed as being from 1950
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Munich: Sieveking Verlag; Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. no. 38, illus. in color p. 75 and mentioned in text pp. 75-76
- Broadway World. "Hauser & Wirth Presents Nothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 2/2." January 30, 2017. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Romm, Jake. "This Exciting Exhibition Will Have You Hearing Sculptures." Forward, March 15, 2017. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Fanti, Andrea. "Philip Guston, il sesto poeta." Corriere della Sera (Milan), July 30, 2017, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: Un ritratto intimo di Philip Guston. Monza: Johan & Levi, 2017, illus. in color fig. 17 (opposite p. 160) and mentioned in text p. 62
- Nothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 1947–1962. Exh. cat. New York: Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color p. 75
- Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, illus. in b&w Fig. 3.3 p. 66 and illus. in color Plate 13 (no page number) and mentioned in text pp. 65, 67, 73, 79, 129 and 170
- Miller, Peter Benson. Encounters I. Exh. cat. Rome: American Academy in Rome, 2019, illus. in color p. 7 and mentioned in text p. 6
- Laster, Paul. "Philip Guston: A Life Lived Through Art." Art & Object (Chapel Hill, NC), July 21, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 37 illus. in color p. 51 and mentioned in text pp. 49, 50, 52 and 294
- 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 Plate 32 p. 53 and mentioned in text pp. 43-44, 47, and 229
- Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color and mentioned in text p. 34
- Guston, Philip. I Paint What I Want To See. Penguin Classics, 2022, mentioned in text p. 187, not illus.
- 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.
- Westall, Mark. "Tate Modern to present a landmark exhibition of Philip Guston this October." FAD Magazine, August 22, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Judah, Hettie. "Taking Philip Guston on his own terms." Apollo, October 24, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Judah, Hettie. "In Perspective: 'While I have thought a lot about Guston, I had seen little of his work." Apollo (London), November 2023, pp. 33-34, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2023, illus. no. 38, illus. in color p. 75 and mentioned in text pp. 75-76
