Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné
Title
Holiday
Date
1944
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
55 x 42½ in.139.7 x 108.0 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue No.
P44.006
Provenance
Myron Kunin Collection of American Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "1944 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting", November 14, 1944 - December 12, 1944
Midtown Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", January 15, 1945 - February 10, 1945
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, "The One Hundred and Forty-First Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture", January 26, 1946 - March 03, 1946
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, "200 Years of American Painting", October 05, 1946 - November 04, 1946
National Academy Museum, New York, NY, "First Half 121st Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Sculpture, Watercolor and Graphic Art", January 04, 1947 - January 22, 1947
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, "34th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings", June 01, 1947 - August 31, 1947
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY, "Philip Guston", November 02, 1947 - December 01, 1947
Midtown Gallery, New York, NY, "[Annual Group Retrospective]", 1948
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, "The Sixth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings", April 11, 1948 - May 09, 1948
University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, "Philip Guston", April 10, 1950 - May 12, 1950
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, "Focus on American Art: Paintings from a Corporate Collection", February 1982 - June 1982
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties", January 25, 1997 - March 16, 1997
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, "The Twin Cities Collect", September 2000 - January 2001
Midtown Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", January 15, 1945 - February 10, 1945
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, "The One Hundred and Forty-First Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture", January 26, 1946 - March 03, 1946
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, "200 Years of American Painting", October 05, 1946 - November 04, 1946
National Academy Museum, New York, NY, "First Half 121st Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Sculpture, Watercolor and Graphic Art", January 04, 1947 - January 22, 1947
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, "34th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings", June 01, 1947 - August 31, 1947
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY, "Philip Guston", November 02, 1947 - December 01, 1947
Midtown Gallery, New York, NY, "[Annual Group Retrospective]", 1948
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, "The Sixth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings", April 11, 1948 - May 09, 1948
University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, "Philip Guston", April 10, 1950 - May 12, 1950
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, "Focus on American Art: Paintings from a Corporate Collection", February 1982 - June 1982
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties", January 25, 1997 - March 16, 1997
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties", April 09, 1997 - June 29, 1997
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY, "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties", November 15, 1997 - January 04, 1998
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, "The Twin Cities Collect", September 2000 - January 2001
Bibliography
1944 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1944, cat. no. 47, not illus.
Genauer, Emily. "Solo by Guston." New York World-Telegram, January 20, 1945, p. 9, mentioned in text, not illus.
Devree, Howard. "Among the New Exhibitions." The New York Times, January 21, 1945, p. 8, illus. in b&w
New York Herald Tribune. "In the Art Galleries—Philip Guston." January 21, 1945, p. 7.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Midtown Galleries, 1945, cat. no. 3, illus. in b&w on front cover
Life. "Philip Guston: Carnegie Winner's Art is Abstract and Symbolic." May 27, 1946, pp. 90–92, illus. in color p. 92 (unpaginated)
200 Years of American Painting. Exh. cat. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1946, cat. no. 52, n.p, illus. in b&w, n.p., lent by the Midtown Galleries, NYC
Catalogue of the One Hundred and Forty-First Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1946, cat. no. 26, not illus.
Jewell, Edward Alden. "Philip Guston Wins $1,200 Art Award; Receives Altman Prize from National Academy for 'Holiday'—Preview Today." The New York Times, January 3, 1947, section Books, p. 19, mentioned in text, not illus.
New York Herald Tribune. "Design Academy Opens Part I of Show Tonight; Divides Exhibition This Year, Part II on View in March." January 3, 1947, p. 11.
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.
Burrows, Carlyle. "Art of the Week: The Academy's Contemporary Annual Display." New York Herald Tribune, January 5, 1947, section 5, p. 8.
Breuning, Margaret. "National Academy, Holding 121st Annual, Opens Door to Outsiders." Art Digest, January 15, 1947, pp. 9, 30, illus. in b&w p. 9 and mentioned in text p. 30
Los Angeles Times. "Wins Prize." January 19, 1947, section Part III, p. 4, illus. in b&w
Daily Iowan. "'Holiday' by Philip Guston." January 26, 1947, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
Cincinnati Enquirer Pictorial Magazine. "Holiday." January 26, 1947, p. 11, illus. in b&w
Frost, Rosamund, and Dorothy Grafly. "National Academy vs. Pennsylvania Academy." ARTnews, February 1947, p. 30, illus.
ARTnews. "Reviews and Previews—Leo Quanchi." May 1947, p. 50.
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Bulletin. "Philip Guston Visits the Institute." November 1947, illus. in b&w on cover
Utica (NY) Observer-Dispatch. "St. Louis Artist is Guest at MWP Institute." November 2, 1947, p. 8-D.
34th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings. Exh. cat. Toledo: The Toledo Museum of Art, 1947, cat. no. 40, not illus.
First Half 121st Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Sculpture, Water Color and Graphic Art. Exh. cat. New York: National Academy Galleries, 1947, cat. no. 55 illus. in b&w p. 18
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Annual Report, 1947, pp. 8-9.
Hunter, Sam. "Among the New Shows." The New York Times, June 13, 1948, mentioned in text, not illus.
The Sixth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings. Exh. cat. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1948, cat. no. 78, p. 14, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Minneapolis: University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1950, cat. no. 7, not illus., Loaned by Midtown Galleries
Canaday, John. "Two American Painters; Guston and Levine in Mid-Career Are at Opposite Poles." The New York Times, January 3, 1960, section 2, p. B18, mentioned in text, not illus.
Canaday, John. "Their Separate Ways: Jack Levine and Philip Guston." In Embattled Critic: View on Modern Art. New York: Noonday Press, 1962, mentioned in text p. 139, not illus.
Genauer, Emily. "Guston 'Negatives' versus Impressionist Positives." New York Herald Tribune, January 16, 1966, p. 27, mentioned in text, not illus.
Moritz, Charles, ed. Current Biography, February 1971, pp. 10-13, mentioned in text p. 11, not illus.
Moritz, Charles, ed. Current Biography Yearbook 1971. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1971, pp. 176-178, mentioned in text p. 176, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 65
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, mentioned in chronology p. 38, not illus.
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in text p. 71, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 65
Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties. Exh. cat. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1997, Paintings cat. no. 9, illus. in color p. 29. Also has b&w photo of painting on easel in Iowa City studio p. 1
Anfam, David. "Telling Tales: Philip Guston in Retrospect." Artforum International, May 2003, pp. 132–39, 192, mentioned in text p. 136, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, mentioned in text pp. 31-32, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, mentioned in text pp. 31-32 (Michael E. Shapiro essay), not illus.
Rubinstein, Raphael. "Philip Guston: Some Thoughts." Art in America, March 2004, mentioned in text p. 88, not illus.
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, Plate 3, illus. in color p. 170 and mentioned in text p. 138
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 p. 83, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 13 illus. in color p. 28, illus. in b&w p. 291 on of front cover of a publication and mentioned in text p. 29
Genauer, Emily. "Solo by Guston." New York World-Telegram, January 20, 1945, p. 9, mentioned in text, not illus.
Devree, Howard. "Among the New Exhibitions." The New York Times, January 21, 1945, p. 8, illus. in b&w
New York Herald Tribune. "In the Art Galleries—Philip Guston." January 21, 1945, p. 7.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Midtown Galleries, 1945, cat. no. 3, illus. in b&w on front cover
Life. "Philip Guston: Carnegie Winner's Art is Abstract and Symbolic." May 27, 1946, pp. 90–92, illus. in color p. 92 (unpaginated)
200 Years of American Painting. Exh. cat. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1946, cat. no. 52, n.p, illus. in b&w, n.p., lent by the Midtown Galleries, NYC
Catalogue of the One Hundred and Forty-First Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture. Exh. cat. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1946, cat. no. 26, not illus.
Jewell, Edward Alden. "Philip Guston Wins $1,200 Art Award; Receives Altman Prize from National Academy for 'Holiday'—Preview Today." The New York Times, January 3, 1947, section Books, p. 19, mentioned in text, not illus.
New York Herald Tribune. "Design Academy Opens Part I of Show Tonight; Divides Exhibition This Year, Part II on View in March." January 3, 1947, p. 11.
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.
Burrows, Carlyle. "Art of the Week: The Academy's Contemporary Annual Display." New York Herald Tribune, January 5, 1947, section 5, p. 8.
Breuning, Margaret. "National Academy, Holding 121st Annual, Opens Door to Outsiders." Art Digest, January 15, 1947, pp. 9, 30, illus. in b&w p. 9 and mentioned in text p. 30
Los Angeles Times. "Wins Prize." January 19, 1947, section Part III, p. 4, illus. in b&w
Daily Iowan. "'Holiday' by Philip Guston." January 26, 1947, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
Cincinnati Enquirer Pictorial Magazine. "Holiday." January 26, 1947, p. 11, illus. in b&w
Frost, Rosamund, and Dorothy Grafly. "National Academy vs. Pennsylvania Academy." ARTnews, February 1947, p. 30, illus.
ARTnews. "Reviews and Previews—Leo Quanchi." May 1947, p. 50.
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Bulletin. "Philip Guston Visits the Institute." November 1947, illus. in b&w on cover
Utica (NY) Observer-Dispatch. "St. Louis Artist is Guest at MWP Institute." November 2, 1947, p. 8-D.
34th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings. Exh. cat. Toledo: The Toledo Museum of Art, 1947, cat. no. 40, not illus.
First Half 121st Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Sculpture, Water Color and Graphic Art. Exh. cat. New York: National Academy Galleries, 1947, cat. no. 55 illus. in b&w p. 18
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Annual Report, 1947, pp. 8-9.
Hunter, Sam. "Among the New Shows." The New York Times, June 13, 1948, mentioned in text, not illus.
The Sixth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings. Exh. cat. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1948, cat. no. 78, p. 14, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Minneapolis: University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 1950, cat. no. 7, not illus., Loaned by Midtown Galleries
Canaday, John. "Two American Painters; Guston and Levine in Mid-Career Are at Opposite Poles." The New York Times, January 3, 1960, section 2, p. B18, mentioned in text, not illus.
Canaday, John. "Their Separate Ways: Jack Levine and Philip Guston." In Embattled Critic: View on Modern Art. New York: Noonday Press, 1962, mentioned in text p. 139, not illus.
Genauer, Emily. "Guston 'Negatives' versus Impressionist Positives." New York Herald Tribune, January 16, 1966, p. 27, mentioned in text, not illus.
Moritz, Charles, ed. Current Biography, February 1971, pp. 10-13, mentioned in text p. 11, not illus.
Moritz, Charles, ed. Current Biography Yearbook 1971. New York: H. W. Wilson, 1971, pp. 176-178, mentioned in text p. 176, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 65
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, mentioned in chronology p. 38, not illus.
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in text p. 71, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 65
Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties. Exh. cat. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1997, Paintings cat. no. 9, illus. in color p. 29. Also has b&w photo of painting on easel in Iowa City studio p. 1
Anfam, David. "Telling Tales: Philip Guston in Retrospect." Artforum International, May 2003, pp. 132–39, 192, mentioned in text p. 136, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, mentioned in text pp. 31-32, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, mentioned in text pp. 31-32 (Michael E. Shapiro essay), not illus.
Rubinstein, Raphael. "Philip Guston: Some Thoughts." Art in America, March 2004, mentioned in text p. 88, not illus.
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, Plate 3, illus. in color p. 170 and mentioned in text p. 138
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 p. 83, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 13 illus. in color p. 28, illus. in b&w p. 291 on of front cover of a publication and mentioned in text p. 29
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Title
Holiday
Date
1944
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
55 × 42½ in. (139.7 × 108.0 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue Number
P44.006
Provenance
Myron Kunin Collection of American Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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