Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné

Title
Sketchbook
Date
1947
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
22½ x 29 in.57.2 x 73.7 cm
Inscription
Signed and dated front lower right: Philip Guston 1947
Catalogue No.
Temporary# D470002
Status
Catalogue entry in process.
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980
Skidmore College, Schick Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY, "Philip Guston: Early and Late Works", October 15, 1987 - November 15, 1987
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "The Drawings of Philip Guston", September 08, 1988 - November 01, 1988
Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain, "Philip Guston La Raiz Del Dibujo", May 11, 1993 - June 30, 1993
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties", January 25, 1997 - March 16, 1997
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", July 20, 1980 - September 09, 1980
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", November 12, 1980 - January 11, 1981
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", February 25, 1981 - April 26, 1981
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", June 30, 1981 - September 13, 1981
Skidmore College, Schick Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY, "Philip Guston: Early and Late Works", October 15, 1987 - November 15, 1987
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "The Drawings of Philip Guston", September 08, 1988 - November 01, 1988
Museum Overholland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, "Philip Guston" (The Drawings of Philip Guston), January 14, 1989 - March 12, 1989
Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain, "Dibuixos: Philip Guston", March 30, 1989 - May 14, 1989
Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England, "The Drawings of Philip Guston", May 28, 1989 - July 23, 1989
The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, "The Drawings of Philip Guston", August 09, 1989 - September 16, 1989
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy, "Philip Guston: Opere Su Carta 1933-1980", October 11, 1989 - November 26, 1989
Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain, "Philip Guston La Raiz Del Dibujo", May 11, 1993 - June 30, 1993
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
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "Philip Guston Now", October 23, 2022 - January 15, 2023
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston Now", March 02, 2023 - August 27, 2023
Bibliography
Rickey, Carrie. "Gust, Gusto, Guston." Artforum, October 1980, pp. 32–39, illus. in b&w p. 37
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 10, illus. in b&w plate 12 p. 58
Philip Guston: Early and Late Works. Exh. cat. Saratoga Springs: Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, 1987, cat. no. 2-D, not illus.
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in footnote 5 p. 73, not illus
Kramer, Hilton. "Guston at MoMA: What Was 'In' Drove This Artist Compulsively." New York Observer, September 19, 1988, mentioned in text p. 12, not illus.
Dabrowski, Magdalena. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988, cat. no. 12 illus. in b&w p. 61, listed as "Sketchbook Drawing" and mentioned in text p. 19
Fancelli, Agusti. "Guston, entre el figurativismo y la abstraccion." El País (Madrid), March 30, 1989, mentioned in text, not illus.
Dabrowski, Magdalena. Dibuixos Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Barcelona: Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, 1989, cat. no. 12 illus. in b&w p. 81 listed as "Sketchbook Drawing"
Philip Guston, Opere Su Carta 1933–1980. Exh. cat. Milan: Electa, 1989, cat. no. 9, illus. in b&w p. 62
Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura. Exh. cat. Essays by Mark Rosenthal, Robert Storr, Carrie Rickey, Francisco Calvo Serraller, and Dore Ashton. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, Centro Nacional de Exposiciones, 1989, illus. in b&w p. 22, no. 6 (Robert Storr essay)
de Barañano, Kosme Maria. Philip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo. Exh. cat. Bilbao: Sala Rekalde, 1993, cat. no. 9, illus. in color p. 79 and on book jacket of catalogue
Patterson, Tom. "Guston's '40s Works Frame His Future." Charlotte Observer, May 18, 1997, section Arts & Entertainment, pp 1F & 4F, mentioned in text p. 4F, not illus.
Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties. Exh. cat. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1997, Drawings cat. no. 19, illus. in b&w p. 50
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus in color, Figure 3, p. 34 and mentioned in text p. 34
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus in color, Figure 3, p. 34 and mentioned in text p. 34
Wilkin, Karen. "Philip Guston: Full Circle." The Hopkins Review 7, no. 4 (2014): pp. 498–515, illus. in b&w p. 508
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 27 p. 48 and mentioned in text p. 189
Yau, John. "Philip Guston's Haunted Testimonies." Hyperallergic, August 18, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 10, illus. in b&w plate 12 p. 58
Philip Guston: Early and Late Works. Exh. cat. Saratoga Springs: Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, 1987, cat. no. 2-D, not illus.
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in footnote 5 p. 73, not illus
Kramer, Hilton. "Guston at MoMA: What Was 'In' Drove This Artist Compulsively." New York Observer, September 19, 1988, mentioned in text p. 12, not illus.
Dabrowski, Magdalena. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988, cat. no. 12 illus. in b&w p. 61, listed as "Sketchbook Drawing" and mentioned in text p. 19
Fancelli, Agusti. "Guston, entre el figurativismo y la abstraccion." El País (Madrid), March 30, 1989, mentioned in text, not illus.
Dabrowski, Magdalena. Dibuixos Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Barcelona: Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, 1989, cat. no. 12 illus. in b&w p. 81 listed as "Sketchbook Drawing"
Philip Guston, Opere Su Carta 1933–1980. Exh. cat. Milan: Electa, 1989, cat. no. 9, illus. in b&w p. 62
Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura. Exh. cat. Essays by Mark Rosenthal, Robert Storr, Carrie Rickey, Francisco Calvo Serraller, and Dore Ashton. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, Centro Nacional de Exposiciones, 1989, illus. in b&w p. 22, no. 6 (Robert Storr essay)
de Barañano, Kosme Maria. Philip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo. Exh. cat. Bilbao: Sala Rekalde, 1993, cat. no. 9, illus. in color p. 79 and on book jacket of catalogue
Patterson, Tom. "Guston's '40s Works Frame His Future." Charlotte Observer, May 18, 1997, section Arts & Entertainment, pp 1F & 4F, mentioned in text p. 4F, not illus.
Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties. Exh. cat. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1997, Drawings cat. no. 19, illus. in b&w p. 50
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus in color, Figure 3, p. 34 and mentioned in text p. 34
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus in color, Figure 3, p. 34 and mentioned in text p. 34
Wilkin, Karen. "Philip Guston: Full Circle." The Hopkins Review 7, no. 4 (2014): pp. 498–515, illus. in b&w p. 508
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 27 p. 48 and mentioned in text p. 189
Yau, John. "Philip Guston's Haunted Testimonies." Hyperallergic, August 18, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Title
Sketchbook
Date
1947
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
22½ × 29 in. (57.2 × 73.7 cm)
Inscription
Signed and dated front lower right: Philip Guston 1947
Catalogue Number
Temporary# D470002
Status
Catalogue entry in process. More Information
Provenance
Promised gift of Musa Guston Mayer to The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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