Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné
Title
Wharf
Date
1976
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
80 x 116 in.203.2 x 294.6 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "WHARF" [underlined] 1976/ OIL. 80 X 116
Catalogue No.
P76.015
Provenance
Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Museum Purchase, The Friends of Art Endowment Fund
Collection of Gerald Elliott, Chicago
Exhibitions
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, "American Painting of the 1970s", December 08, 1978 - January 14, 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
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth", December 14, 2002 - March 09, 2003
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection exhibition", May 16, 2004 - February 09, 2005
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection exhibition", June 07, 2006 - August 21, 2006
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection exhibition", July 06, 2007 - September 18, 2007
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection exhibition", January 15, 2008 - January 28, 2008
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection exhibition", June 04, 2008 - August 21, 2008
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "The Collection and Then Some", November 07, 2008 - May 31, 2009
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection and Then Some, phase II", January 22, 2009 - June 15, 2009
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection exhibition", May 25, 2010 - September 07, 2010
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection and Then Some", April 26, 2011 - August 29, 2011
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Ten Years", November 22, 2012 - August 12, 2013
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Highlights from the Permanent Collection", May 11, 2024 - July 30, 2024
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, "American Painting of the 1970s", February 03, 1979 - March 18, 1979
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, "American Painting of the 1970s", April 10, 1979 - May 20, 1979
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, "American Painting of the 1970s", July 06, 1979 - August 26, 1979
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX, "American Painting of the 1970s", September 09, 1979 - October 21, 1979
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL, "American Painting of the 1970s", November 11, 1979 - January 02, 1980
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
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth", December 14, 2002 - March 09, 2003
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
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, "The Art of Philip Guston: 1913-1980", January 24, 2004 - April 12, 2004
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection exhibition", May 16, 2004 - February 09, 2005
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection exhibition", June 07, 2006 - August 21, 2006
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection exhibition", July 06, 2007 - September 18, 2007
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection exhibition", January 15, 2008 - January 28, 2008
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection exhibition", June 04, 2008 - August 21, 2008
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "The Collection and Then Some", November 07, 2008 - May 31, 2009
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection and Then Some, phase II", January 22, 2009 - June 15, 2009
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection exhibition", May 25, 2010 - September 07, 2010
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Permanent Collection and Then Some", April 26, 2011 - August 29, 2011
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Ten Years", November 22, 2012 - August 12, 2013
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
Tate Modern, London, England, "Philip Guston", October 05, 2023 - February 25, 2024
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Highlights from the Permanent Collection", May 11, 2024 - July 30, 2024
Bibliography
Feld, Ross. "Philip Guston's 'Wharf.'" Arts Magazine, April 1978, pp. 146–47, illus. in color p. 147
American Painting of the 1970s. Exh. cat. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1978, illus. in color p. 29
Boettger, Suzaan. "Art for Modern Times." Daily Californian (Berkeley), June 26, 1980, pp. 8, 11, mentioned in text p. 11, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 66, illus. in color plate 56 p. 99
Perreault, John. "Guston Winds." SoHo Weekly News, July 8, 1981, p. 51, mentioned in text, not illus.
Larson, Kay. "Painting From Ground Zero." New York, July 20, 1981, pp. 58–59, mentioned in text p. 59, not illus.
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 14, illus. in color p. 26 (unpaginated)
Francis, Richard. "Guston at the Whitechapel. London." Burlington Magazine 125, no. 959 (1983): pp. 110, 113, mentioned in text p. 113, 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. 88, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in color plate IX (unpaginated) and mentioned in text p. 187
Affinities and Institutions: The Gerald S. Elliot Collection of Contemporary Art. Exh. cat. London: Thames and Hudson; Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1990, mentioned in text p. 15, not illus.
Auping, Michael. "Figuring It Out: Guston's 'Wharf' and Baselitz's 'Elke.'" MAMFW Calendar, October–December 1994, pp. 6-7 & cover, illus. in color
Auping, Michael, Andrea Karnes, and Mark Thistlethwaite. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 110. Exh. cat. London: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2002. In association with Third Millennium Information, illus. in color p. 79, illus. in b&w p. 242 and mentioned in text pp. 77-79
USA Today (West Babylon, NY). "Philip Guston: Abstract Expressionism's Provocative Pioneer and Ultimate Critic." November 1, 2003, mentioned in text
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 100 (unpaginated but would be p. 197) and mentioned in text p. 46 (Michael Auping essay)
Feld, Ross. Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003, illus. in b&w (no page #) and mentioned in text pp. 33-34 and 103
Feld, Ross. Erinnerungen an Philip Guston Mit dem Briefwechsel zwischen Feld und Guston. Kippenheim-Schmieheim: Verlag Kurt Liebig, 2003, illus. in color p. 34
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 100, unpaginated and mentioned in text p. 46
Rubinstein, Raphael. "Philip Guston: Some Thoughts." Art in America, March 2004, illus. in color p. 82-83 and mentioned in text p. 90
Zaller, Robert. "The Abandoned Studio: Philip Guston's Gnostic Testament." Boulevard 20, no. 2-3 (2005): pp. 100–18, mentioned in text p. 114, not illus.
At the Modern, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. "Acquisitions." Summer 2005, pp. 4–5, mentioned in text p. 4, not illus.
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, detail illus. in color pp. 34-35 and mentioned in text pp. 44-52, 74, 103, 132 and 149
Kaufmann, David. Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Works. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010, mentioned in text pp. 48, 49 and 54, not illus.
Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Philip Guston Roma. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010, mentioned in text p. 46 (Peter Benson Miller essay), not illus.
Miller, Peter Benson. "Rotten With Stories." Apollo (London), June 2013. Print, illus. in color fig. 6 p. 64 and mentioned in text
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. 24, not illus.
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
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Collection Highlights. Fort Worth: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2019, illus. in color p. 143 and mentioned in text p. 142
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, mentioned in text p. 197, not illus.
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 154 p. 150 and mentioned in text pp. 194-195
Bowen, Jared. 'Philip Guston Now' portrays art of controversial and confrontational painter. Washington D.C.: PBS News Hour, May 12, 2022. Video, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Michelman, Elizabeth. "Philip Guston's True Colors at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." Artscope, August 9, 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. 29-30, 99, 118-119, 124-126, 127-130 and 133
Bui, Phong. "Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation." Brooklyn Rail, May 2023. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Schwabsky, Barry. "Philip Guston Now." Brooklyn Rail, July/August 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, mentioned in text p. 51, not illus.
American Painting of the 1970s. Exh. cat. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1978, illus. in color p. 29
Boettger, Suzaan. "Art for Modern Times." Daily Californian (Berkeley), June 26, 1980, pp. 8, 11, mentioned in text p. 11, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 66, illus. in color plate 56 p. 99
Perreault, John. "Guston Winds." SoHo Weekly News, July 8, 1981, p. 51, mentioned in text, not illus.
Larson, Kay. "Painting From Ground Zero." New York, July 20, 1981, pp. 58–59, mentioned in text p. 59, not illus.
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 14, illus. in color p. 26 (unpaginated)
Francis, Richard. "Guston at the Whitechapel. London." Burlington Magazine 125, no. 959 (1983): pp. 110, 113, mentioned in text p. 113, 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. 88, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in color plate IX (unpaginated) and mentioned in text p. 187
Affinities and Institutions: The Gerald S. Elliot Collection of Contemporary Art. Exh. cat. London: Thames and Hudson; Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1990, mentioned in text p. 15, not illus.
Auping, Michael. "Figuring It Out: Guston's 'Wharf' and Baselitz's 'Elke.'" MAMFW Calendar, October–December 1994, pp. 6-7 & cover, illus. in color
Auping, Michael, Andrea Karnes, and Mark Thistlethwaite. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 110. Exh. cat. London: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2002. In association with Third Millennium Information, illus. in color p. 79, illus. in b&w p. 242 and mentioned in text pp. 77-79
USA Today (West Babylon, NY). "Philip Guston: Abstract Expressionism's Provocative Pioneer and Ultimate Critic." November 1, 2003, mentioned in text
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 100 (unpaginated but would be p. 197) and mentioned in text p. 46 (Michael Auping essay)
Feld, Ross. Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003, illus. in b&w (no page #) and mentioned in text pp. 33-34 and 103
Feld, Ross. Erinnerungen an Philip Guston Mit dem Briefwechsel zwischen Feld und Guston. Kippenheim-Schmieheim: Verlag Kurt Liebig, 2003, illus. in color p. 34
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 100, unpaginated and mentioned in text p. 46
Rubinstein, Raphael. "Philip Guston: Some Thoughts." Art in America, March 2004, illus. in color p. 82-83 and mentioned in text p. 90
Zaller, Robert. "The Abandoned Studio: Philip Guston's Gnostic Testament." Boulevard 20, no. 2-3 (2005): pp. 100–18, mentioned in text p. 114, not illus.
At the Modern, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. "Acquisitions." Summer 2005, pp. 4–5, mentioned in text p. 4, not illus.
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, detail illus. in color pp. 34-35 and mentioned in text pp. 44-52, 74, 103, 132 and 149
Kaufmann, David. Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Works. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010, mentioned in text pp. 48, 49 and 54, not illus.
Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Philip Guston Roma. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2010, mentioned in text p. 46 (Peter Benson Miller essay), not illus.
Miller, Peter Benson. "Rotten With Stories." Apollo (London), June 2013. Print, illus. in color fig. 6 p. 64 and mentioned in text
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. 24, not illus.
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
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Collection Highlights. Fort Worth: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2019, illus. in color p. 143 and mentioned in text p. 142
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, mentioned in text p. 197, not illus.
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 154 p. 150 and mentioned in text pp. 194-195
Bowen, Jared. 'Philip Guston Now' portrays art of controversial and confrontational painter. Washington D.C.: PBS News Hour, May 12, 2022. Video, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Michelman, Elizabeth. "Philip Guston's True Colors at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." Artscope, August 9, 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. 29-30, 99, 118-119, 124-126, 127-130 and 133
Bui, Phong. "Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation." Brooklyn Rail, May 2023. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Schwabsky, Barry. "Philip Guston Now." Brooklyn Rail, July/August 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, mentioned in text p. 51, not illus.
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Title
Wharf
Date
1976
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
80 × 116 in. (203.2 × 294.6 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "WHARF" [underlined] 1976/ OIL. 80 X 116
Catalogue Number
P76.015
Provenance
Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Museum Purchase, The Friends of Art Endowment Fund
Collection of Gerald Elliott, Chicago
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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