Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné

Title
The Oracle
Date
1974
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
72¼ x 89½ in.183.5 x 227.3 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston
Catalogue No.
P74.003
Provenance
Baltimore Museum of Art, Bequest of Musa Guston, New York
Exhibitions
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, "Guarding the Art", March 27, 2022 - July 10, 2022
Bibliography
Callahan, Maura. "Art Fart: The Political Power of Philip Guston's 'The Oracle,' on View at the Baltimore Museum of Art." City Paper, November 28, 2014. Online, illus in color online
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. 124, not illus.
CBS News Sunday Morning. "Where museum guards pick the art." Story produced by Sara Kugel and Julie Kracov. Editor: Joseph Frandino. CBS, March 27, 2022. Television, 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
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. 124, not illus.
CBS News Sunday Morning. "Where museum guards pick the art." Story produced by Sara Kugel and Julie Kracov. Editor: Joseph Frandino. CBS, March 27, 2022. Television, 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
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Title
The Oracle
Date
1974
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
72¼ × 89½ in. (183.5 × 227.3 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston
Catalogue Number
P74.003
Provenance
Baltimore Museum of Art, Bequest of Musa Guston, New York
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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