Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné
Title
Paw
Date
1968
Medium
Acrylic on panel
Dimensions
30 x 32 in.76.2 x 81.3 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower right: P.G.
Catalogue No.
P68.004
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston: New Paintings", March 15, 1974 - April 14, 1974
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", August 17, 1984 - September 16, 1984
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", September 02, 1999 - November 01, 1999
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, "From the Observatory", March 16, 2002 - April 20, 2002
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, "Philip Guston - das große Spätwerk", November 06, 2013 - February 02, 2014
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: The Panel Paintings, 1968-1972", April 12, 2024 - April 12, 2026
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, "Philip Guston: Schilderijen 1969 - 1980", January 13, 1983 - February 27, 1983
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", August 17, 1984 - September 16, 1984
The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", September 26, 1984 - October 28, 1984
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", November 09, 1984 - January 01, 1985
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", September 02, 1999 - November 01, 1999
Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", February 16, 2000 - April 24, 2000
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, "Philip Guston: Paintings of Four Decades", May 12, 2000 - July 30, 2000
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, "Philip Guston Peintures 1947 - 1979", September 13, 2000 - December 04, 2000
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, "From the Observatory", March 16, 2002 - April 20, 2002
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston Retrospective", June 28, 2003 - September 27, 2003
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Retrospective", October 27, 2003 - January 04, 2004
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, "The Art of Philip Guston: 1913-1980", January 24, 2004 - April 12, 2004
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, "Philip Guston - das große Spätwerk", November 06, 2013 - February 02, 2014
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, "Philip Guston - Das Grosse Spätwerk", February 22, 2014 - May 25, 2014
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, "Painting, Smoking, Eating - Late works by Philip Guston", June 04, 2014 - September 07, 2014
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: The Panel Paintings, 1968-1972", April 12, 2024 - April 12, 2026
Bibliography
Rosenberg, Harold. "Liberation from Detachment." The New Yorker, November 7, 1970, pp. 136–41, mentioned in text p. 140, not illus.
Rosenberg, Harold. The De-Definition of Art: Action Art to Pop to Earthworks. New York: Horizon Press, 1972, mentioned in text p. 139, not illus.
Levin, Dan. "Guston Art in the Pink." News, March 21, 1974, p. 5, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston New Paintings. Exh. cat. Boston: Boston University, 1974, cat. no. 32, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, Fig. 7, illus. in b&w p. 21
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, illus. in b&w p. 57
Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, cat. no. 11, illus. in b&w p. 55
Oxlade, Roy. "Father Was Brilliant." Modern Painters, Summer 1991, pp. 101-102, mentioned in text p. 102, not illus.
Anfam, David. "Bonn, Philip Guston." Burlington Magazine, December 1999, pp. 767-78, mentioned in text p. 768, 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. 91
Halkes, Petra. "Figuring Out Abstraction." Border Crossings, August 2000, pp. 75–77, mentioned in text p. 76, not illus.
Ottinger, Didier, and Philip Roth. Philip Guston: Peintures 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2000, illus. in b&w p. 42 and in color p. 61
Philip Guston Peintures 1947-1979. Exh. brochure. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2000, illus. in b&w no. 4 and mentioned in text
Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, illus. in color p. 91
Kastein, Albrecht, ed. Philip Guston. Texts by Albrecht Kastein, Jutta Koether, Roberto Ohrt, and Willam Corbett. Exh. cat. Cologne: BQ, 2001, illus. in b&w p. 44
Mobilio, Albert. Me with Animal Towering. New York: Black Square Editions, 2002, illus. in color on front cover
Baker, Kenneth. "Philip Guston's Magnificent Conflicts Yielded Great Controversy. And Some Great Paintings as Well Says Kenneth Baker." San Francisco Chronicle, June 28, 2003, section DateBook, pp. D1, D10, mentioned in text p. D1, not illus.
Nickas, Bob. After the Observatory. Exh. cat. New York: Paula Cooper Gallery, 2003, illus. in color no. 16
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 64 (unpaginated but would be p. 160)
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 64, unpaginated
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, mentioned in text p. 109, not illus.
Kaufmann, David. Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Works. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010, mentioned in text p. 15, not illus.
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, illus. in b&w p. 185, mentioned in text pp. 156, 184-185, 189, and 281
Urfalino, Mathilde. "Les poem-pictures de Philip Guston." octopusnotes, December 2013, illus. in b&w fig. 48 p. 49
Philip Guston. Das Grosse Spätwerk/ Late Works. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, November 5, 2013. Video, illus. in color
Pfeiffer, Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Philip Guston Das Grosse Spatwerk/Late Works. Exh. cat. Cologne: Strzeleckibooks, 2013, illus. in color p. 29
Sylvester, David. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. NichtSoKleineBibliothek 8. Bern: Piet Meyer Verlag, 2013, illus. in color p. 59, illus. no. 18
Baker, E. "Frankfurt—Philip Guston: 'Late Works' at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt through February 2nd 2014." AO Art Observed, January 18, 2014. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Burnett, Craig. Philip Guston: The Studio. London: Afterall Books, 2014, mentioned in text p. 55, not illus.
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 pp. 67 and 89, not illus.
Gieskes, Mette. "I is an Other: Philip Guston's Imagined Incarnations of God and Klansmen." In Example or Alter Ego? Aspects of the Portrait Historie in Western Art from Antiquity to the Present. Edited by Volker Manuth, Rudie van Leeuwen, and Jos Koldeweij. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016, Illus. no. 6 illus. in color p. 302 and mentioned in text pp. 302-303 and footnote 87 p. 303
Jennifer Packer: Tenderheaded. Exh. cat. Chicago: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 2018, illus. in color p. 89
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text p. 163, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971. Exh. cat. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2019, illus. in color p. 39 and mentioned in text p. 37
Wolf, Bryan J. "Between the Lines: Philip Guston, the Holocaust, and 'Bad Painting.'" American Art, Spring 2020, pp. 50-85, fig. 15 illus. in color p. 67 and mentioned in text p. 67
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 60 and mentioned in text p. 59
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 Fig. 3 (Kate Nesin essay) p. 209 and mentioned in text p. 209
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 109 illus. in color p. 111
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, mentioned in text, not illus.
Jeux de mains. Marseille: Chose Commune, 2021., illus. in color p. 205
Burnett, Craig. "Mixed emotions - the uneasy art of Philip Guston." Apollo (London), April 28, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Burnett, Craig. "Mixed Emotions." Apollo (London), May 2022, pp. 78-84, illus. in color Fig. 2 p. 81 and mentioned in text pp. 80 and 83
Fendrich, Laurie. "Philip Guston's existential ferocity." Two Coats of Paint, June 1, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Guston, Philip. I Paint What I Want To See. Penguin Classics, 2022, illus. in b&w p. 116 and mentioned in text pp. 94 and 113
Woolf, Jan. "The bigot in the hood." Morning Star (London), November 16, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, illus. in color no. 83 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text pp. 156-157, 262, 411-412 and 418-419
Keegan, Paul. "I smell mink coats." London Review of Books, January 25, 2024. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Street, Benjamin James. "Painting Floods: History, Witness and Public Address in Philip Guston's Late Work." PhD diss. University of Easy Anglia, 2024, illus. in color no. 38 p. 219 and mentioned in text pp. 77-78
Rosenberg, Harold. The De-Definition of Art: Action Art to Pop to Earthworks. New York: Horizon Press, 1972, mentioned in text p. 139, not illus.
Levin, Dan. "Guston Art in the Pink." News, March 21, 1974, p. 5, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston New Paintings. Exh. cat. Boston: Boston University, 1974, cat. no. 32, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, Fig. 7, illus. in b&w p. 21
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, illus. in b&w p. 57
Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, cat. no. 11, illus. in b&w p. 55
Oxlade, Roy. "Father Was Brilliant." Modern Painters, Summer 1991, pp. 101-102, mentioned in text p. 102, not illus.
Anfam, David. "Bonn, Philip Guston." Burlington Magazine, December 1999, pp. 767-78, mentioned in text p. 768, 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. 91
Halkes, Petra. "Figuring Out Abstraction." Border Crossings, August 2000, pp. 75–77, mentioned in text p. 76, not illus.
Ottinger, Didier, and Philip Roth. Philip Guston: Peintures 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2000, illus. in b&w p. 42 and in color p. 61
Philip Guston Peintures 1947-1979. Exh. brochure. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2000, illus. in b&w no. 4 and mentioned in text
Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, illus. in color p. 91
Kastein, Albrecht, ed. Philip Guston. Texts by Albrecht Kastein, Jutta Koether, Roberto Ohrt, and Willam Corbett. Exh. cat. Cologne: BQ, 2001, illus. in b&w p. 44
Mobilio, Albert. Me with Animal Towering. New York: Black Square Editions, 2002, illus. in color on front cover
Baker, Kenneth. "Philip Guston's Magnificent Conflicts Yielded Great Controversy. And Some Great Paintings as Well Says Kenneth Baker." San Francisco Chronicle, June 28, 2003, section DateBook, pp. D1, D10, mentioned in text p. D1, not illus.
Nickas, Bob. After the Observatory. Exh. cat. New York: Paula Cooper Gallery, 2003, illus. in color no. 16
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 64 (unpaginated but would be p. 160)
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 64, unpaginated
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, mentioned in text p. 109, not illus.
Kaufmann, David. Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Works. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010, mentioned in text p. 15, not illus.
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, illus. in b&w p. 185, mentioned in text pp. 156, 184-185, 189, and 281
Urfalino, Mathilde. "Les poem-pictures de Philip Guston." octopusnotes, December 2013, illus. in b&w fig. 48 p. 49
Philip Guston. Das Grosse Spätwerk/ Late Works. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, November 5, 2013. Video, illus. in color
Pfeiffer, Ingrid, and Max Hollein, eds. Philip Guston Das Grosse Spatwerk/Late Works. Exh. cat. Cologne: Strzeleckibooks, 2013, illus. in color p. 29
Sylvester, David. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. NichtSoKleineBibliothek 8. Bern: Piet Meyer Verlag, 2013, illus. in color p. 59, illus. no. 18
Baker, E. "Frankfurt—Philip Guston: 'Late Works' at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt through February 2nd 2014." AO Art Observed, January 18, 2014. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Burnett, Craig. Philip Guston: The Studio. London: Afterall Books, 2014, mentioned in text p. 55, not illus.
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 pp. 67 and 89, not illus.
Gieskes, Mette. "I is an Other: Philip Guston's Imagined Incarnations of God and Klansmen." In Example or Alter Ego? Aspects of the Portrait Historie in Western Art from Antiquity to the Present. Edited by Volker Manuth, Rudie van Leeuwen, and Jos Koldeweij. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016, Illus. no. 6 illus. in color p. 302 and mentioned in text pp. 302-303 and footnote 87 p. 303
Jennifer Packer: Tenderheaded. Exh. cat. Chicago: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 2018, illus. in color p. 89
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text p. 163, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971. Exh. cat. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2019, illus. in color p. 39 and mentioned in text p. 37
Wolf, Bryan J. "Between the Lines: Philip Guston, the Holocaust, and 'Bad Painting.'" American Art, Spring 2020, pp. 50-85, fig. 15 illus. in color p. 67 and mentioned in text p. 67
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 60 and mentioned in text p. 59
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 Fig. 3 (Kate Nesin essay) p. 209 and mentioned in text p. 209
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 109 illus. in color p. 111
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, mentioned in text, not illus.
Jeux de mains. Marseille: Chose Commune, 2021., illus. in color p. 205
Burnett, Craig. "Mixed emotions - the uneasy art of Philip Guston." Apollo (London), April 28, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Burnett, Craig. "Mixed Emotions." Apollo (London), May 2022, pp. 78-84, illus. in color Fig. 2 p. 81 and mentioned in text pp. 80 and 83
Fendrich, Laurie. "Philip Guston's existential ferocity." Two Coats of Paint, June 1, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Guston, Philip. I Paint What I Want To See. Penguin Classics, 2022, illus. in b&w p. 116 and mentioned in text pp. 94 and 113
Woolf, Jan. "The bigot in the hood." Morning Star (London), November 16, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, illus. in color no. 83 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text pp. 156-157, 262, 411-412 and 418-419
Keegan, Paul. "I smell mink coats." London Review of Books, January 25, 2024. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Street, Benjamin James. "Painting Floods: History, Witness and Public Address in Philip Guston's Late Work." PhD diss. University of Easy Anglia, 2024, illus. in color no. 38 p. 219 and mentioned in text pp. 77-78
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Title
Paw
Date
1968
Medium
Acrylic on panel
Dimensions
30 × 32 in. (76.2 × 81.3 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower right: P.G.
Catalogue Number
P68.004
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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