Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné
Title
Blue Light
Date
1975
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
73 x 80½ in.185.4 x 204.5 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower center: Philip Guston
Catalogue No.
P75.047
Provenance
Collection SFMOMA, Purchase through the Helen Crocker Russell and William H. and Ethel W. Crocker Family Funds, the Mrs. Ferdinand C. Smith Fund, and the Paul L. Wattis Special Fund
Exhibitions
David McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Paintings 1975", March 06, 1976 - April 10, 1976
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Philip Guston: New Works in San Francisco, December 21, 1978 - January 21, 1979
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "From Matisse to Diebenkorn: Selections from the Collection of Painting and Sculpture", January 18, 1995 - August 10, 1995
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Art of Four Decades: 1958 - 1998", June 05, 1998 - July 19, 1998
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Matisse and Beyond: The Painting and Sculpture Collection", January 10, 2001 - March 2003
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston Retrospective", June 28, 2003 - September 27, 2003
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, "The Art of Philip Guston: 1913-1980", January 24, 2004 - April 12, 2004
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Matisse and Beyond: The Painting and Sculpture Collection", July 15, 2004 - October 18, 2004
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Matisse and Beyond: The Painting and Sculpture Collection", July 14, 2006 - September 25, 2007
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "75 Years of Looking Forward: Focus on Artists", September 29, 2009 - February 23, 2011
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Selected Histories: 20th-Century Art from the SFMOMA Collection", February 25, 2011 - October 19, 2011
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, "Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art", June 28, 2013 - October 27, 2013
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy, "Philip Guston and the Poets", May 10, 2017 - September 03, 2017
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Philip Guston: New Works in San Francisco, December 21, 1978 - January 21, 1979
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980
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
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
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", May 08, 1983 - June 19, 1983
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "From Matisse to Diebenkorn: Selections from the Collection of Painting and Sculpture", January 18, 1995 - August 10, 1995
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Art of Four Decades: 1958 - 1998", June 05, 1998 - July 19, 1998
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Matisse and Beyond: The Painting and Sculpture Collection", January 10, 2001 - March 2003
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston Retrospective", June 28, 2003 - September 27, 2003
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, "The Art of Philip Guston: 1913-1980", January 24, 2004 - April 12, 2004
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Matisse and Beyond: The Painting and Sculpture Collection", July 15, 2004 - October 18, 2004
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Matisse and Beyond: The Painting and Sculpture Collection", July 14, 2006 - September 25, 2007
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "75 Years of Looking Forward: Focus on Artists", September 29, 2009 - February 23, 2011
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Selected Histories: 20th-Century Art from the SFMOMA Collection", February 25, 2011 - October 19, 2011
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, "Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art", June 28, 2013 - October 27, 2013
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy, "Philip Guston and the Poets", May 10, 2017 - September 03, 2017
Bibliography
Greene, Alison. "Philip Guston: Latest Works." Miscellany News (Vassar College), March 25, 1976, illus. in b&w
Ratcliff, Carter. "New York Letter." Art International, April–May 1976, pp. 54–55, illus. p. 55
Feld, Ross. "Philip Guston." Arts, May 1976, p. 9, illus. in color p. 9
Frank, Peter. "New York Reviews." ARTnews, May 1976, pp. 129, 134, illus. in color p. 129
Patton, Phil. "Reviews." Artforum, May 1976, pp. 62–63, mentioned in text p. 63, not illus.
Philip Guston Paintings 1975. Exh. cat. New York: David McKee Gallery, 1976, cat. no. 1, illus. in color on cover
Arnason, H. H. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. 2nd ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1977, illus. in color p. 513 plate 211 and mentioned in text p. 529
Smith, Roberta. "The New Gustons." Art in America, January–February 1978, pp. 100–5, illus. in color p. 102 and mentioned in text p. 104
Stofflet-Santiago, Mary. "Philip Guston—A Thorough Preview." Artweek, January 13, 1979, pp. 1, 16, mentioned in text p. 1, not illus.
Toucatt, Ralph. "Metamorphosis: The Art of Philip Guston." The Threepenny Review, Fall 1980, p. 24, mentioned in text, not illus.
Lyon, Christopher. "Reflections on a Mirror." Chicago Reader, November 28, 1980, section 1, pp. 47–48, mentioned in text p. 48, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 61, illus. in color plate 50c p. 94
Clark, John. "Philip Guston and Metaphysical Painting." Artscribe, August 1981, pp. 22–25, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text p. 24
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 13, illus. in b&w p. 65 and in color p. 25 (unpaginated)
duPont, Diana, Katherine Church Holland, Garna Garren Muller, and Laura L. Sueoka. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: The Painting and Sculpture Collection. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1985, mentioned in text p. 170, illus. in color pp. 171-173, illus. in b&w p. 310
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, mentioned in text p. 70, not illus.
Arnason, H. H. History of Modern Art. 3rd ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, illus. in color plate 184
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in footnote 13 p. 88, not illus.
Oxlade, Roy. "Father Was Brilliant." Modern Painters, Summer 1991, pp. 101-102, mentioned in text p. 102, not illus.
Coerver, Chad, ed. SFMOMA Painting and Sculpture Highlights. San Francisco: SFMOMA, 2002, illus. in color (unpaginated)
Feld, Ross. Erinnerungen an Philip Guston Mit dem Briefwechsel zwischen Feld und Guston. Kippenheim-Schmieheim: Verlag Kurt Liebig, 2003, illus. in color p. 51
Feld, Ross. Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003, illus. in b&w (no page #) and mentioned in text pp. 42-43
McDowell, Tara. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 75 Years of Looking Forward. Edited by Janet Bishop, Corey Keller, and Sarah Roberts. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2009, mentioned in text p. 176, not illus.
Kaufmann, David. Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Works. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010, mentioned in text pp. 48 and 54, not illus.
Ghert-Zand, Renee. "The Jewish Sides of Rothko, Mondrian and Pollock." Times of Israel, July 1, 2013. Online, illus. in color online
Hauser & Wirth 7. "Philip Guston: The Hands of Clocks." Winter 2015, pp. 24-35, illus. in color p. 30 as part of an installation photo (partially obscured)
Bloch, Judy, and Suzanne Stein, eds. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360º Views on the Collection. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2016, illus. in color pp. 80-81
Casavecchia, Barbara. "57th Venice Biennale 'Viva Arte Viva.'" Art Agenda, May 13, 2017. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Art It. "Philip Guston and the Poets @ Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia." May 25, 2017. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Monopol (Berlin). "Die Collateral Events." June 2017, pp. 61–62, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Haase, Amine. "Die Zukunft war gestern." Kunstforum International (Cologne), July 2017, pp. 58–73, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color p. 103 and mentioned in text p. 75
Herman, David. "Cancelling Philip Guston." The Article, September 27, 2020. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 180 illus. in color p. 173, illus. in color p. 329 as part of installation photo and mentioned in text p. 197
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. 7 p. 201 and mentioned in text pp. 200 and 236
Samudzi, Zoé. "Under the Hood." Jewish Currents, November 16, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Feld, Ross. Guston In Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003. Reprint, New York: New York Review of Books, 2022, illus. in color (no page #) and mentioned in text pp. 39 and 107
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. 67 p. 238 and no. 87 p. 244 and mentioned in text p. 192
Ratcliff, Carter. "New York Letter." Art International, April–May 1976, pp. 54–55, illus. p. 55
Feld, Ross. "Philip Guston." Arts, May 1976, p. 9, illus. in color p. 9
Frank, Peter. "New York Reviews." ARTnews, May 1976, pp. 129, 134, illus. in color p. 129
Patton, Phil. "Reviews." Artforum, May 1976, pp. 62–63, mentioned in text p. 63, not illus.
Philip Guston Paintings 1975. Exh. cat. New York: David McKee Gallery, 1976, cat. no. 1, illus. in color on cover
Arnason, H. H. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. 2nd ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1977, illus. in color p. 513 plate 211 and mentioned in text p. 529
Smith, Roberta. "The New Gustons." Art in America, January–February 1978, pp. 100–5, illus. in color p. 102 and mentioned in text p. 104
Stofflet-Santiago, Mary. "Philip Guston—A Thorough Preview." Artweek, January 13, 1979, pp. 1, 16, mentioned in text p. 1, not illus.
Toucatt, Ralph. "Metamorphosis: The Art of Philip Guston." The Threepenny Review, Fall 1980, p. 24, mentioned in text, not illus.
Lyon, Christopher. "Reflections on a Mirror." Chicago Reader, November 28, 1980, section 1, pp. 47–48, mentioned in text p. 48, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 61, illus. in color plate 50c p. 94
Clark, John. "Philip Guston and Metaphysical Painting." Artscribe, August 1981, pp. 22–25, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text p. 24
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 13, illus. in b&w p. 65 and in color p. 25 (unpaginated)
duPont, Diana, Katherine Church Holland, Garna Garren Muller, and Laura L. Sueoka. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: The Painting and Sculpture Collection. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1985, mentioned in text p. 170, illus. in color pp. 171-173, illus. in b&w p. 310
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, mentioned in text p. 70, not illus.
Arnason, H. H. History of Modern Art. 3rd ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, illus. in color plate 184
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in footnote 13 p. 88, not illus.
Oxlade, Roy. "Father Was Brilliant." Modern Painters, Summer 1991, pp. 101-102, mentioned in text p. 102, not illus.
Coerver, Chad, ed. SFMOMA Painting and Sculpture Highlights. San Francisco: SFMOMA, 2002, illus. in color (unpaginated)
Feld, Ross. Erinnerungen an Philip Guston Mit dem Briefwechsel zwischen Feld und Guston. Kippenheim-Schmieheim: Verlag Kurt Liebig, 2003, illus. in color p. 51
Feld, Ross. Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003, illus. in b&w (no page #) and mentioned in text pp. 42-43
McDowell, Tara. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 75 Years of Looking Forward. Edited by Janet Bishop, Corey Keller, and Sarah Roberts. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2009, mentioned in text p. 176, not illus.
Kaufmann, David. Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Works. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010, mentioned in text pp. 48 and 54, not illus.
Ghert-Zand, Renee. "The Jewish Sides of Rothko, Mondrian and Pollock." Times of Israel, July 1, 2013. Online, illus. in color online
Hauser & Wirth 7. "Philip Guston: The Hands of Clocks." Winter 2015, pp. 24-35, illus. in color p. 30 as part of an installation photo (partially obscured)
Bloch, Judy, and Suzanne Stein, eds. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360º Views on the Collection. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2016, illus. in color pp. 80-81
Casavecchia, Barbara. "57th Venice Biennale 'Viva Arte Viva.'" Art Agenda, May 13, 2017. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Art It. "Philip Guston and the Poets @ Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia." May 25, 2017. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Monopol (Berlin). "Die Collateral Events." June 2017, pp. 61–62, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Haase, Amine. "Die Zukunft war gestern." Kunstforum International (Cologne), July 2017, pp. 58–73, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color p. 103 and mentioned in text p. 75
Herman, David. "Cancelling Philip Guston." The Article, September 27, 2020. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 180 illus. in color p. 173, illus. in color p. 329 as part of installation photo and mentioned in text p. 197
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. 7 p. 201 and mentioned in text pp. 200 and 236
Samudzi, Zoé. "Under the Hood." Jewish Currents, November 16, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Feld, Ross. Guston In Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003. Reprint, New York: New York Review of Books, 2022, illus. in color (no page #) and mentioned in text pp. 39 and 107
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. 67 p. 238 and no. 87 p. 244 and mentioned in text p. 192
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Title
Blue Light
Date
1975
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
73 × 80½ in. (185.4 × 204.5 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower center: Philip Guston
Catalogue Number
P75.047
Provenance
Collection SFMOMA, Purchase through the Helen Crocker Russell and William H. and Ethel W. Crocker Family Funds, the Mrs. Ferdinand C. Smith Fund, and the Paul L. Wattis Special Fund
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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