1980-1989

Messer, Thomas M. Fifty Years of Collecting: An Anniversary Selection, Painting since World War II: Europe, Latin America, North America. Exh. cat. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1987.
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94.
Wilson, Richard. Richard Wilson: Line Drawings, Gnomics, Dithyramb, Serenade. Opus One 130, Vinyl lp.
Abstract Expressionism The Critical Developments. Exh. cat. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1987.
20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1987.
Schneiderman, Richard S. Drawings as Drawings: Works from The Ackland Art Museum and the Weatherspoon Art Gallery. Exh. cat. Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1987.
Ink Drawings: 1890-1986. Exh. cat. New York: Hermine Chivian-Cobb, 1987.
Boston Collects: Contemporary Painting & Sculpture. Exh. cat. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1987.
Old Masters - New Visions: El Greco to Rothko from the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. Exh. cat. Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1987.
Yau, John. "Philip Guston." Artforum, January 1988.
Ashton, Dore. "Impassioned Quest." Art International, Winter 1988, pp.101–3.
Morris, Gay. "A stylized Whitney exhibit." San Francisco Examiner, January 22, 1988, p. F-2.
Kay, Alfred. "Drawing conclusions: When artists pick up pencil and paper, their real talents - and true weaknesses - are exposed for all to see." Sacramento Bee, January 24, 1988, section Encore, p. 18.
Gazette des Beaux-Arts: La Chronique des Arts. "Principales Acquisitions des Musées en 1987." March 1988.
Moser, Joann. "Forum: Philip Guston's 'Hovering.'" Drawing, March–April 1988, p. 132.
Kent, Sarah. "Saatchi's Showcase." Time Out, May 1988.
Feaver, William. "Monsters in Jeans." Observer (London), May 8, 1988, p. 40.
Graham-Dixon, Andrew. "Bullies for You." Independent (London), May 10, 1988, p.16.
Greene, Alison de Lima. "Twentieth-Century Art in the Museum Collection: Direction and Diversity." The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Bulletin, Summer 1988.
Raynor, Vivien. "Three Artists Who Abandoned Abstraction for the Figure." The New York Times, July 17, 1988, section Art, p. 28WC.
Auty, Giles. "Polke in the Eye." Spectator (London), August 6, 1988, pp. 39–40.
Mayer, Musa. "My Father, Philip Guston." The New York Times Magazine, August 7, 1988, pp. 24–25, 55, 58.
"Philip Guston Talks about His Art: "The Thickness of Things"." MoMA, no. 49 (1988): pp. 2, 7.
Solomon, Deborah. "Daddy Dearest." Books, New Criterion, September 1988, pp. 72–75.