Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné
Title
Ancient Wall
Date
1976
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
80 x 93⅝ in.203.2 x 237.8 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue No.
P76.039
Provenance
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Regents Collections Acquisition Program, 1987
Exhibitions
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Philip Guston, Major Paintings 1975-76", September 29, 1978 - November 02, 1978
Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH, "Philip Guston", March 08, 1980 - May 04, 1980
Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA, "Paintings by Philip Guston", May 22, 1982 - June 19, 1982
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., "Recent Acquisitions, 1986-1988", March 15, 1989 - May 14, 1989
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, "Philip Guston: Paintings of the '70s", October 08, 1994 - February 05, 1995
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, "Shifting Visions: O'Keefe, Guston, Richter", October 10, 1998 - January 24, 1999
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, "Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976", May 04, 2008 - September 21, 2008
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., "At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection", October 16, 2014 - April 24, 2016
Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, 1969-1979", September 09, 2021 - October 30, 2021
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City, Québec, Canada, "America. Between Dreams and Realities: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection", June 09, 2022 - September 05, 2022
Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH, "Philip Guston", March 08, 1980 - May 04, 1980
Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA, "Paintings by Philip Guston", May 22, 1982 - June 19, 1982
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., "Recent Acquisitions, 1986-1988", March 15, 1989 - May 14, 1989
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, "Philip Guston: Paintings of the '70s", October 08, 1994 - February 05, 1995
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, "Shifting Visions: O'Keefe, Guston, Richter", October 10, 1998 - January 24, 1999
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston Retrospective", June 28, 2003 - September 27, 2003
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Retrospective", October 27, 2003 - January 04, 2004
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, "The Art of Philip Guston: 1913-1980", January 24, 2004 - April 12, 2004
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, "Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976", May 04, 2008 - September 21, 2008
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, "Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976", October 19, 2008 - January 11, 2009
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, "Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976", February 13, 2009 - June 14, 2009
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., "At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection", October 16, 2014 - April 24, 2016
Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, 1969-1979", September 09, 2021 - October 30, 2021
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City, Québec, Canada, "America. Between Dreams and Realities: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection", June 09, 2022 - September 05, 2022
Bibliography
Schulze, Franz. "3 Artists Defy Trend." Chicago Sun-Times, October 15, 1978, p. 6, illus. in b&w
Frueh, Joanna. "Shoes Slogging through Hell: Philip Guston at the Allan Frumkin Gallery." Chicago Reader, October 27, 1978, section 1, Art, pp. 40–41, illus. in b&w p. 40 and described in text p. 41
Philip Guston: Major Paintings 1975–76. Exh. brochure. Chicago: Allan Frumkin Gallery, 1978, illus. in color
Herr, Marcianne. "Philip Guston Paintings." Dialogue: The Ohio Arts Journal, March/April 1980, p. 10–11, illus. in b&w p. 10
H. H. "Remembering Philip Guston." Chicago, December 1980, p. 246, illus. in color. Incorrectly captioned as "Green Sea"
Crane, Tricia. "The Art of Philip Guston." Daily News, June 13, 1982, pp. 12–13, illus. in b&w p. 12
McCloud, Mac. "Philip Guston at Asher Faure Gallery." Images & Issues, November/December 1982, pp. 62–63, illus. p. 62
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 74 p. 75
Gazette des Beaux-Arts: La Chronique des Arts. "Principales Acquisitions des Musées en 1987." March 1988, p. 67
Richard, Paul. "The Display of Daring." Washington Post, March 15, 1989, p. B8, illus. p. B9
Burlington Magazine. "Selected Recent Acquisitions of Twentieth-Century Art by American Museums." July 1989, pp. 515–20, p. 516 fig. 5
Anfam, David. Abstract Expressionism. London: Thames & Hudson, 1990, illus. in color no. 163 p. 200 and mentioned in text p. 207
Kovner, Abba. Scrolls of Testimony. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1993, illus. in b&w p. 225
Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text p. 58, not illus.
Zilczer, Judith K. "Philip Guston." In Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: 150 Works of Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, illus. in color p. 133 and mentioned in text p. 132
Mack, Gerhard. "Philip Guston Künstler." Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst 36, no. 3 (1997): pp. 1–16, mentioned in text p. 10, not illus.
DeLong, Lea Rosson. Shifting Visions O'Keeffe Guston Richter. Exh. cat. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1998, illus. in color p. 47 and mentioned in text pp. 46-49
Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, mentioned in text p. 23
Kimmelman, Michael. "Anxious Liberator of an Era's Demons." The New York Times, October 31, 2003, section Weekend, pp. E37, E39, mentioned in text p. E39, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 102, unpaginated
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 102 (unpaginated but would be p. 199)
Heller, Michael. "Philip Guston." Chicago Review 49, no. 3–4 (2004), pp. 402-405, mentioned in text p. 404, not illus.
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, Plate 35, illus. in color p. 186 and mentioned in text p. 92
Barry, Ian, and Anne Ellegood. Amy Sillman: Third Person Singular. Exh. cat. Saratoga Springs: The Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, 2008, illus. p. 59
Kleeblatt, Norman, ed. Action Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, illus. in color plate 65, p. 116 and mentioned in text p. 180
Fujimori, Manami. "Philip Guston." Bijutsu Notebook 63, no. 951 (2011): pp. 200–03, illus. in color p. 200
Siegel, Katy. Abstract Expressionism. New York: Phaidon, 2011, illus. in color p. 195
Fujimori, Manami. "The Pioneers & Revolutionaries For Art Now." In The Contemporary Art Masters. Japan: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 2013, illus. in color p. 190
Schmidt, Jana V. "Philip Guston's Piles," In Traversals of Affect: On Jean-François Lyotard. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016., mentioned in text pp. 146-147, not illus.
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text pp. 74 and 76
Wolf, Bryan J. "Between the Lines: Philip Guston, the Holocaust, and 'Bad Painting.'" American Art, Spring 2020, pp. 50-85, fig. 10 illus. in color p. 60 and mentioned in text pp. 59-62 and 69
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 91 and mentioned in text p. 93
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color No. 206 p. 194 and mentioned in text pp. 190 and 197
Whyte, Murray. "How do you contextualize an artist who captured hate?" Boston Globe, September 16, 2021. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text
Chui, Vivian. "Philip Guston's Most Controversial Decade of Work." Ocula, September 22, 2021. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Yau, John. "Philip Guston's Unblinking Eye." Hyperallergic, September 30, 2021. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Goodman, Jonathan. "Philip Guston, 1969-1979 at Hauser & Wirth, NYC (Video + Photo Story)," ArteFuse, October 17, 2021. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Kallir, Jane. "Are we ready for the Philip Guston exhibit at the MFA?", Boston Globe, April 18, 2022, section Opinion. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
America. Entre rêves et réalités. Exh. cat. Montreal: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, 2022, illus. in color pp. 114-115
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection. Washington DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2022, illus. in color Fig. 220 p. 244
Haidu, Rachel. "Shapes, Wholes, History." October 185 (2023): pp. 99-117, mentioned in text pp. 114 and 116, not illus.
Guadagnino, Kate. "15 New York Gallery Shows That Altered the Course of Contemporary Art." New York Times Style Magazine, September 25, 2023. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Haidu, Rachel. Each One Another: The Self in Contemporary Art. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2023, illus. in b&w p. 49 and mentioned in text pp. 40 and 47
Frueh, Joanna. "Shoes Slogging through Hell: Philip Guston at the Allan Frumkin Gallery." Chicago Reader, October 27, 1978, section 1, Art, pp. 40–41, illus. in b&w p. 40 and described in text p. 41
Philip Guston: Major Paintings 1975–76. Exh. brochure. Chicago: Allan Frumkin Gallery, 1978, illus. in color
Herr, Marcianne. "Philip Guston Paintings." Dialogue: The Ohio Arts Journal, March/April 1980, p. 10–11, illus. in b&w p. 10
H. H. "Remembering Philip Guston." Chicago, December 1980, p. 246, illus. in color. Incorrectly captioned as "Green Sea"
Crane, Tricia. "The Art of Philip Guston." Daily News, June 13, 1982, pp. 12–13, illus. in b&w p. 12
McCloud, Mac. "Philip Guston at Asher Faure Gallery." Images & Issues, November/December 1982, pp. 62–63, illus. p. 62
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 74 p. 75
Gazette des Beaux-Arts: La Chronique des Arts. "Principales Acquisitions des Musées en 1987." March 1988, p. 67
Richard, Paul. "The Display of Daring." Washington Post, March 15, 1989, p. B8, illus. p. B9
Burlington Magazine. "Selected Recent Acquisitions of Twentieth-Century Art by American Museums." July 1989, pp. 515–20, p. 516 fig. 5
Anfam, David. Abstract Expressionism. London: Thames & Hudson, 1990, illus. in color no. 163 p. 200 and mentioned in text p. 207
Kovner, Abba. Scrolls of Testimony. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute, 1993, illus. in b&w p. 225
Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text p. 58, not illus.
Zilczer, Judith K. "Philip Guston." In Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: 150 Works of Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, illus. in color p. 133 and mentioned in text p. 132
Mack, Gerhard. "Philip Guston Künstler." Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst 36, no. 3 (1997): pp. 1–16, mentioned in text p. 10, not illus.
DeLong, Lea Rosson. Shifting Visions O'Keeffe Guston Richter. Exh. cat. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1998, illus. in color p. 47 and mentioned in text pp. 46-49
Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, mentioned in text p. 23
Kimmelman, Michael. "Anxious Liberator of an Era's Demons." The New York Times, October 31, 2003, section Weekend, pp. E37, E39, mentioned in text p. E39, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 102, unpaginated
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 102 (unpaginated but would be p. 199)
Heller, Michael. "Philip Guston." Chicago Review 49, no. 3–4 (2004), pp. 402-405, mentioned in text p. 404, not illus.
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, Plate 35, illus. in color p. 186 and mentioned in text p. 92
Barry, Ian, and Anne Ellegood. Amy Sillman: Third Person Singular. Exh. cat. Saratoga Springs: The Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, 2008, illus. p. 59
Kleeblatt, Norman, ed. Action Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008, illus. in color plate 65, p. 116 and mentioned in text p. 180
Fujimori, Manami. "Philip Guston." Bijutsu Notebook 63, no. 951 (2011): pp. 200–03, illus. in color p. 200
Siegel, Katy. Abstract Expressionism. New York: Phaidon, 2011, illus. in color p. 195
Fujimori, Manami. "The Pioneers & Revolutionaries For Art Now." In The Contemporary Art Masters. Japan: Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha, 2013, illus. in color p. 190
Schmidt, Jana V. "Philip Guston's Piles," In Traversals of Affect: On Jean-François Lyotard. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016., mentioned in text pp. 146-147, not illus.
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text pp. 74 and 76
Wolf, Bryan J. "Between the Lines: Philip Guston, the Holocaust, and 'Bad Painting.'" American Art, Spring 2020, pp. 50-85, fig. 10 illus. in color p. 60 and mentioned in text pp. 59-62 and 69
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 91 and mentioned in text p. 93
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color No. 206 p. 194 and mentioned in text pp. 190 and 197
Whyte, Murray. "How do you contextualize an artist who captured hate?" Boston Globe, September 16, 2021. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text
Chui, Vivian. "Philip Guston's Most Controversial Decade of Work." Ocula, September 22, 2021. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Yau, John. "Philip Guston's Unblinking Eye." Hyperallergic, September 30, 2021. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Goodman, Jonathan. "Philip Guston, 1969-1979 at Hauser & Wirth, NYC (Video + Photo Story)," ArteFuse, October 17, 2021. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Kallir, Jane. "Are we ready for the Philip Guston exhibit at the MFA?", Boston Globe, April 18, 2022, section Opinion. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
America. Entre rêves et réalités. Exh. cat. Montreal: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, 2022, illus. in color pp. 114-115
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection. Washington DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2022, illus. in color Fig. 220 p. 244
Haidu, Rachel. "Shapes, Wholes, History." October 185 (2023): pp. 99-117, mentioned in text pp. 114 and 116, not illus.
Guadagnino, Kate. "15 New York Gallery Shows That Altered the Course of Contemporary Art." New York Times Style Magazine, September 25, 2023. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Haidu, Rachel. Each One Another: The Self in Contemporary Art. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2023, illus. in b&w p. 49 and mentioned in text pp. 40 and 47
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Title
Ancient Wall
Date
1976
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
80 × 93⅝ in. (203.2 × 237.8 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue Number
P76.039
Provenance
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Regents Collections Acquisition Program, 1987
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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