Catalogue Raisonné
P70.021
Oil on canvas
70 x 114½ in.
177.8 x 290.8 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
- Provenance
- Collection SFMOMA, Gift of Byron R. Meyer
- Private Collection
- 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
- La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, "Philip Guston: Recent Work", July 31, 1971 - October 03, 1971
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980 Travelled to:
- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003 Travelled to:
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022 Travelled to:
- Bibliography
- Berkson, Bill. "The New Gustons." ARTnews, October 1970, pp. 44–47, 85, mentioned in text p. 85, not illus.
- Domingo, Willis. "Galleries: Philip Guston: Marlborough Gallery." Arts, November 1970, p. 63, mentioned in text p. 63, not illus.
- Rosenberg, Harold. "Liberation from Detachment." The New Yorker, November 7, 1970, pp. 136–41, mentioned in text p. 138, not illus.
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1970, cat. no. 33, illus. in color p. 39
- Artweek. "Guston Imagery." July 30, 1971, illus.
- Philip Guston: Recent Work. Exh. brochure. La Jolla: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1971, cat. no. 17, not illus.
- Rosenberg, Harold. The De-Definition of Art: Action Art to Pop to Earthworks. New York: Horizon Press, 1972, illus. in b&w p. 136 and mentioned in text p. 135
- Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 169
- Shere, Charles. "Looking beyond Guston's Paintings." Oakland Tribune, May 18, 1980, section Art, pp. 12–13, illus. in b&w p. 12
- Albright, Thomas. "A Curious Repertoire of the Guston Imagery." San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle, May 25, 1980, pp. 36–38, mentioned in text p. 37, not illus.
- Curtis, Cathy. "Philip Guston: The Continuity of Change." Artweek, June 7, 1980, illus.
- Wilson, William. "An Abstract Artist Who Went Figurative." Newsday, July 6, 1980, illus.
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 54, illus. in color plate 46 p. 88
- 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.
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 53 p. 54
- Storr, Robert. "Philip Guston: Une Nouvelle Figuration." Art Press, October 1987.
- Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in footnote 13 p. 88, not illus.
- Feld, Ross. "Guston in Time." Arts Magazine, November 1988, pp. 40-45, mentioned in text p. 44, not illus.
- Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 169
- Baker, Kenneth. "SFMOMA Scoops Up Plenty of New Art." San Francisco Chronicle, December 8, 1994, section Datebook, pp. E1, E4, illus. in color p. E1
- Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text pp. 78-79, not illus.
- Fineberg, Jonathan. Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995, illus. in b&w fig. 12.47 p. 401 and mentioned in text pp. 399 and 402
- Koppelman, Dorothy. "Philip Guston: The Man, His Life and His Work." Terrain Gallery Online, Aesthetic Realism Foundation, September 1997, illus. in color online
- Schreier, Christoph, Michael Auping, and Martin Hentschel. Philip Guston: Gemalde 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1999, illus. in b&w p. 55 (Martin Hentschel essay)
- Fineberg, Jonathan. Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being. 2nd ed. 1995. Reprint, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000, illus. in b&w, fig. 12.49 p. 411 and mentioned in text pp. 409, 411 and 412
- Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, illus. in b&w p. 55 and mentioned in text pp. 54-55
- Kaufmann, David. "A Vast Precaution to Avoid Immobility: Philip Guston's 'To I. B.' (1977)." Burlington Magazine, May 2001, pp. 296–98, mentioned in text p. 297, not illus.
- Baker, Kenneth. "Just What Is a Masterpiece?" San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 2002, section Datebook, p. 51, illus. in b&w p. 51
- Cooper, Harry. "Recognizing Guston (In Four Slips)." October 99 (2002): pp. 96–129, mentioned in text p. 106, not illus.
- Baker, Kenneth. "Shock of the New: Embracing Guston's Late Work at SFMOMA." San Francisco Chronicle, August 10, 2003, section Datebook, pp. 9–10, illus. in b&w p. 9 and mentioned in text p. 10
- Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color, Plate 81, unpaginated
- Rainbird, Sean, ed.. Max Beckmann. Exh. cat. London: Tate Publishing, 2003, mentioned in text p. 39, not illus.
- Reiner, Lucas. "Fear and Trembling of the Image." Beyond Baroque, 2004, pp. 6-11, mentioned in text p. 9, not illus.
- Zaller, Robert. "The Abandoned Studio: Philip Guston's Gnostic Testament." Boulevard 20, no. 2-3 (2005): pp. 100–18, mentioned in text pp. 107-108, not illus.
- Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, Plate 10, illus. in color p. 173
- Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Philip Guston Roma. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010, illus. in color p. 41, Fig. 15 and mentioned in text pp. 41-42 and 67 (Peter Benson Miller essay). Also mentioned in text p. 88 (Dore Ashton essay)
- Slifkin, Robert. "Philip Guston's Return to Figuration and the "1930s Renaissance" of the 1960s." The Art Bulletin 93, no. 2 (2011): pp. 220–42, Fig. 1 illus. in b&w p. 221, detail illus. in b&w Fig 3 p. 222 and mentioned in text pp. 220, 221-222, 223, 230, 236, 237 and 238
- Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, mentioned in text pp. 159 and 224, not illus.
- Slifkin, Robert. Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, detail illus. in color on cover and plate 8, also detail illus. in b&w fig. 7 p. 32
- Kaufmann, David. Review of Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art, R. Slifkin. Burlington Magazine 156 (2014): p. 250, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Burnett, Craig. Philip Guston: The Studio. London: Afterall Books, 2014, illus. in color plate 8 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text p. 14
- 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. 37 p. 103 (unpaginated). Also mentioned in text pp. 22, 43, 102-104, 106, and footnote 12 on p. 106.
- Better than deKooning. Exh. cat. Cologne: Snoeck, 2015, illus. in color pg. 136, illus. no. 6
- Hyman, Timothy. The World New Made. London: Thames & Hudson, 2016, illus. in color p. 218 and mentioned in text p. 219
- Wilson, Rachael M. "Singular Collaborations: Figures of Disjunction in Verbal-Visual Poetics." PhD diss., New York University, 2016, mentioned in text p. 201 n. 63, not illus.
- Philip Guston: Nixon Drawings 1971 & 1975. Exh. cat. Essays by Musa Mayer and Debra Bricker-Balken. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color Fig. 4 p. 185
- Brandt, Anthony, and David Eagleman. The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World. New York: Catapult, 2017, illus. in color p. 141
- Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, illus. in b&w Fig. 2.20 p. 51 (unpaginated) and illus. in color Plate 12 (no page number) and mentioned in text pp. 50, 52, 76, 79 and 170
- Wolf, Bryan J. "Between the Lines: Philip Guston, the Holocaust, and 'Bad Painting.'" American Art, Spring 2020, pp. 50-85, fig. 20 illus. in color p. 79 and mentioned in text p. 79
- Milks, Megan. "Hoods and Hoodwinkery." X-TRA 22, No. 4, Summer 2020, pp. 20-29, illus. in color and mentioned in text p. 23
- Selvin, Claire. "Figuration to Abstraction and Back Again: How Philip Guston Shaped 20th-Century Painting." ARTnews, July 22, 2020. Online, illus. in color
- Trang Ps. "Danh họa Philip Guston: Từ lối vẽ hình tượng đến trừu tượng và ngược lại." Luxio (Ho Chi Minh City), August 7, 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.
- Locke, Steve. "Guston, Whiteness, and the Unfinished Business of the Vile World." Artforum, December 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- 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 123 p. 114 and mentioned in text pp. 212-213 and 246n24
- Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color pp. 70-71 and mentioned in text p. 63
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 120 illus. in color pp. 124-125, illus. in color p. 320 as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text p. 126
- Seymour, Harry. "Growing up with Philip Guston -- my father." Christie's, February 5, 2021. Online, illus. in color
- O'Hagan, Sean. "Philip Guston's daughter on his Klan paintings: 'They're about white culpability--including his own'". Guardian, February 21, 2021. Online, illus. in color
- Mayer, Musa. "A New Book by Philip Guston's Daughter Explores the Origins of the Painter's Ku Klux Klan Imagery--Read an Excerpt Here." artnet News, March 18, 2021. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Ground/work. Exh. cat. Williamstown: Clark Art Institute, 2021, illus. in color p. 175 and mentioned in text p. 174
- Mattiske, Nick. "Can Art Challenge Racism? Review: Philip Guston, Musa Mayer, Laurence King Publishing." Insights Magazine (Australia), January 19, 2022. Online, illus. in color
- Richel, Justin. "The Gift of Freedom in Guston's Flatlands." Alta Journal, Spring 2022, p. 35, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Bowen, Jared. 'Philip Guston Now' portrays art of controversial and confrontational painter. Washington D.C.: PBS News Hour, May 12, 2022. Video, illus. in color as part of an installation photo and detail illus. in color
- Meyer, Lily. "Don't Look Away from Philip Guston's Cartoonish Paintings of Klansmen." Atlantic, May 24, 2022. Online., illus. in color on external link and mentioned in text
- Luke, Ben. "The enigma of Philip Guston: two books unpack artist's fascination with dualities." Art Newspaper, May 24, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
- Budick, Ariella. "Philip Guston's fearless work outshines qualms and controversy in Boston." Financial Times (London), June 15, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
- Shea, Andrew L. "Philip Guston in the padded room." Spectator World, July 28, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
- Rexer, Lyle. "Philip Guston Now." Brooklyn Rail, September 2022, section ArtSeen. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
- Wilkin, Karen. "Philip Guston finally." New Criterion, September 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Allen, Brian T. "Philip Guston Now, Delayed by Race Hysteria, Finally Gets Its Day." National Review, October 1, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
- Fielder, Garland. "Review: 'Philip Guston Now' at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston." Glasstire (Texas), December 6, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
- Whyte, Murray. "Art museums didn't go back to 'normal' in 2022--and that's a good thing." Boston Globe, December 9, 2022. Online.
- Guston, Philip. I Paint What I Want To See. Penguin Classics, 2022, mentioned in text p. 102, not illus.
- Harris, Gareth. "As a Lightning-Rod Philip Guston Show Tours the U.S., a New Book Explains Why It Put Censorship and Race on a Collision Course." artnet News, January 2, 2023. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
- Bui, Phong. "Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation." Brooklyn Rail, May 2023. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text
- Haidu, Rachel. "Shapes, Wholes, History." October 185 (2023): pp. 99-117, mentioned in text p. 109, 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, illus. in color
- Tate Etc. "Transformations on a Canvas." Issue 59, Autumn 2023, pp. 72-83, detail illus. in color pp. 72-73
- Freeman, Laura. "My father, Philip Guston, would be offended by the reaction to his show." Times (London), September 23, 2023. Online, illus. in color
- Freeman, Laura. "'My father, Philip Guston, would be offended by the reaction to his show.'" Times (London), September 23, 2023, Saturday Review, pp. 8-9, illus. in color p. 8
- Searle, Adrian. "'What would it be like to be evil?' Controversial Philip Guston show ridicules the virus-like KKK." Guardian, October 3, 2023. Online, illus. in color
- Harris, Gareth. "Postponed Philip Guston survey finally opens at Tate Modern." Art Newspaper, October 3, 2023. Online, illus. in color
- Luke, Ben. "Philip Guston at Tate Modern review: riven with anger, engorged with love, haunted by suffering." Evening Standard (London), October 3, 2023. Online, illus. in color
- Freeman, Laura. "Philip Guston review — beyond the controversy, marvel at the craft." Times (London), October 3, 2023. Online, illus. in color
- Searle, Adrian. "'What would it be like to be evil?'" Guardian, October 4, 2023, p. 8, illus. in color
- Kent, Sarah. "Philip Guston, Tate Modern review - a compelling look at an artist who derided the KKK: How to appear daft while addressing the dark side." Arts Desk, October 5, 2023. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
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Wullschläger, Jackie. "Philip Guston, Tate Modern review — violent, unsettling and thrilling from start to finish." Financial Times, October 5, 2023. Online.
, mentioned in text, not illus. - Wullschläger, Jackie. "Violent and unsettling." FT Weekend (London), October 7-8, 2023, section Arts, pp. 14-15., mentioned in text p. 15, not illus.
- Thalberg, Lisbeth. "Philip Guston. Tate Modern. London." Martin Cid Magazine, October 7, 2023. Online, illus. in color
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Carolin, Clare. "Philip Guston: controversial delayed Tate show asks 'what would it be like to be evil?'" The Conversation, October 10, 2023. Online.
, illus. in color - Charlesworth, J.J. "Philip Guston and the Politics of Painted Images." ArtReview (London), October 13, 2023. Online, illus. in color
- Wise, Irene. "Philip Guston at the Tate Modern." Jewish Renaissance (London), October 17, 2023. Online, illus. in color
- Lloyd, Joe. "Philip Guston: This straight-laced, work-focused retrospective affirms Philip Guston's place as one of the 20th century's finest painters." Studio International, October 19, 2023. Online, illus. in color
- Cohen, Alexander. "The Jewish artist who perfectly captured the turbulent world he was witnessing." Jewish Chronicle, October 19, 2023. Online, illus. in color
- Judah, Hettie. "Taking Philip Guston on his own terms." Apollo, October 24, 2023. Online, illus. in color
- 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, illus. in color Fig. 1 p. 33
- Holman, Matthew. "The Big Review: Philip Guston: This long-delayed restrospective is a revelatory tour de force that charts the twists and turns of a 50-year career." Art Newspaper, November 2023, p. 62, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
- Holman, Matthew. "The Big Review: Philip Guston at Tate Modern ★★★★★." Art Newspaper, November 2, 2023. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
- Smith, Nathan. "Tate Modern Reveals Philip Guston's Hoodwink." Observer (London), November 9, 2023. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Woolf, Jan. "The bigot in the hood." Morning Star (London), November 16, 2023. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
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Lawson-Tancred, Jo, "A Long-Delayed Retrospective of Philip Guston's Acerbic Paintings Finally Opens in London." artnet News, January 3, 2024. Online.
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