Signed and dated front lower left: Philip Guston/1943
Catalogue No.
P43.003
Provenance
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, John Barton Payne Fund
Exhibitions
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "1943-44 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings", November 23, 1943 - January 04, 1944 Midtown Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", January 15, 1945 - February 10, 1945 University Galleries, University of Nebraska, Morrill Hall, Lincoln, NE, "Nebraska Art Association 55th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art", March 04, 1945 - April 01, 1945 Seventeenth Regiment Armory, New York, NY, "Critics Choice of the Contemporary Arts & Antiques Show", September 24, 1945 - September 30, 1945 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, "The Fifth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings", March 30, 1946 - April 25, 1946 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO, "New Accessions U.S.A.", July 15, 1946 - September 02, 1946 Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Norfolk, VA, "[Unknown Title]", April 1947 Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA, "[Unknown Title]", May 03, 1948 - May 07, 1948 University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, "Philip Guston", April 10, 1950 - May 12, 1950 Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA, "[Unknown Title]", May 06, 1953 - May 20, 1953 University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties", January 25, 1997 - March 16, 1997
Bibliography
1943–44 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1943, cat. no. 39, not illus., exhibited as "Portrait of a Sculptor"
Breuning, Margaret. "Philip Guston Impresses in New York Debut." Art Digest, January 15, 1945, p. 12, mentioned in text, not illus.
F[rost], R[osamund]. "Guston: Meaning out of Monumentality." ARTnews, February 1, 1945, p. 24, mentioned in text, not illus.
Art Digest. "New York Critics Pick Exhibits for Armory Show--Prepare to Duck." September 15, 1945, pp. 6-7, mentioned in text p. 7, not illus.
ARTnews. "Critics Choice at the Armory Show." October 1, 1945, pp. 19, 25–26, illus. in b&w p. 25, chosen by Rosamund Frost
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Midtown Galleries, 1945, cat. no. 6, not illus.
Fifty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Exh. cat. Lincoln: Nebraska Art Association, 1945, cat. no. 54, not illus.
Art Digest. "Virginia Biennial Opens in Richmond." April 1, 1946, pp. 8-9, illus. in b&w p. 9 and mentioned in text p. 8
Bartlett, Fred. "29 Museums Select Their Best Buys of 1946." ARTnews, August 1946, p. 41-43, 53, mentioned in text p. 42, not illus.
New Accessions USA. Exh. cat. Colorado Springs: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1946, cat. no. 62, illus. in b&w (no page #)
The Fifth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings. Exh. cat. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1946, cat. no. 85, illus. in b&w on front cover, John Barton Payne Medal and Purchase, Lent by Midtown Gallery
St. Louis Star-Times. "W. U. Art Instructor Wins $1,200, His 3rd Prize in 15 Mos." January 4, 1947, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Minneapolis: University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1950, cat. no. 6, not illus., Loaned by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Shapiro, Michael Edward. "Philip Guston: The War Years." Print Collector's Newsletter, September–October 1994, mentioned in text p. 128, not illus.
Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties. Exh. cat. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1997, paintings cat. no. 5, illus. in color p. 25, mentioned in text pp. 16 and 17, listed in checklist p. 54
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, mentioned in text p. 30 (Michael E. Shapiro essay), not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, mentioned in text p. 30, not illus.
Botelho, Manuel. Guston em contexto: até ao regresso da figura. Lisbon: Livros Vendaval, 2007, mentioned in text p. 68, not illus.
Shoemaker, Innis Howe. Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009, mentioned in footnote 5 p. 169, not illus.
O'Leary, Elizabeth L., Sylvia Yount, Susan Jensen Rawles, and David Park Curry. American Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Charlottesville: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts with the University of Virginia Press, 2010, No. 133, pp. 393-398
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 17 illus. in color p. 30 and mentioned in text pp. 30 and 290
Cooper, Harry, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, and Kate Nesin. Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020, mentioned in text p. 228, not illus.
Southern/Modern: Rediscovering Southern Art from the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Charlotte: Mint Museum, 2023, Fig. 158, p. 189
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