Catalogue Raisonné

P78.054

Box and Shadow, 1978
Oil on canvas
69 x 98½ in.
175.3 x 250.2 cm
Unsigned, undated
Provenance
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Musa Guston
Exhibitions
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982  Travelled to:
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, "L'Epoque, La Mode, La Morale, La Passion", May 21, 1987 - August 17, 1987
Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany, "Bilderstreit Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960", April 08, 1989 - June 28, 1989
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Works from the Collection", May 28, 1992 - July 26, 1992 
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "[Unknown Title]", January 22, 1997 - May 02, 1997
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Selections from Permanent Collection, Painting and Sculpture", May 02, 1997 - September 12, 1997
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Postwar to Pop: Masterworks from MoMA's Collection", April 30, 1999 - October 05, 1999
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings and Sculptures", September 21, 2003 - January 04, 2004 Travelled to:
Bibliography
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 28, illus. in color p. 37 (unpaginated)
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in b&w no. 99 p. 94
L'epoque la mode la morale la passion. Exh. cat. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1987, illus. in color p. 179
Bilderstreit: Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960. Exh. cat. Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 1989, cat. no. 241
Storr, Robert. "New Acquisitions: Philip Guston." MoMA, Summer 1992, p. 22, mentioned in text p. 22, not illus.
Philip Guston in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Exh. cat. Essay by Robert Storr. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1992, illus. in color p. 24, discussed pp. 7 and 20
Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text p. 90, not illus.
McGrath, Patrick. "Philip Guston: Head and Bottle, 1975." Artforum, February 1995, mentioned in text p. 63, not illus.
de Barañano, Kosme. "El ultimo aliento del Gigante Guston: Una treintena de óleos y varios dibujos-poema iluminan la obra tardía del creador." Masdearte.com, 2001. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston: One-Shot-Paintings/De Un Solo Aliento. Exh. cat. Essays by Kosme de Barañano, María Jesús Folch, Fernando Gomez Aguilera, and Manuel Padorno. Valencia: IVAM, 2001. In association with Ediciones Aldeasa, illus. in color p. 13
Elderfield, John, ed. Visions of Modern Art: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum of Modern Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2003, illus. in color p. 309 and mentioned in text p. 302
Das MoMA in Berlin. Meisterwerke aus dem Museum of Modern Art, New York. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004, illus. in color pp. 245 and 343 and detail illus. in color p. 236
Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, mentioned in text p. 78, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 232 illus. in color p. 215 and mentioned in text p. 209