Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné
Title
Cabal
Date
1977
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68 x 116 in.172.7 x 294.6 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue No.
P77.011
Provenance
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; 50th Anniversary Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Learsy 81.38
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Learsy
Exhibitions
Hayward Gallery, London, England, "New Painting/New York", May 03, 1979 - June 17, 1979
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "50th Anniversary Gifts and Promised Gifts", June 03, 1980 - August 31, 1980
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Selected Paintings and Sculpture Acquired Since 1978", February 09, 1982 - April 04, 1982
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Minimalism to Expressionism: Painting and Sculpture Since 1965 from the Permanent Collection", June 02, 1983 - December 04, 1983
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, "American Art Since 1970: Painting, Sculpture, and Drawings from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York", March 10, 1984 - April 22, 1984
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Figure as Subject: The Last Decade, Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art", February 13, 1986 - May 28, 1986
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Major Acquisitions Since 1980: Selected Paintings & Sculpture", September 18, 1986 - November 30, 1986
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, "Figure as Subject: The Revival of Figuration Since 1975", April 06, 1988 - June 12, 1988
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Art in Place: Fifteen Years of Acquisitions", July 28, 1989 - October 29, 1989
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "20th-Century American Art: Highlights of the Permanent Collection", October 24, 1989 - February 03, 1991
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Figurative Art in the Permanent Collection", September 09, 1992 - November 29, 1992
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "An American Story", March 20, 1996 - September 29, 1996
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, "Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art II", January 31, 1997 - May 04, 1997
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3 - American Realities", July 11, 1997 - October 05, 1997
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, "Shifting Visions: O'Keefe, Guston, Richter", October 10, 1998 - January 24, 1999
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "The American Century, Art & Culture 1900 - 2000, Part II 1950 - 2000", September 26, 1999 - February 13, 2000
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "De Kooning to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection", October 10, 2002 - March 02, 2003
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Full House: Views of the Whitney's Collection at 75", June 29, 2006 - September 03, 2006
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Collecting Biennials", January 16, 2010 - November 28, 2010
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "America is Hard to See", May 01, 2015 - September 27, 2015
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
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "50th Anniversary Gifts and Promised Gifts", June 03, 1980 - August 31, 1980
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Selected Paintings and Sculpture Acquired Since 1978", February 09, 1982 - April 04, 1982
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Minimalism to Expressionism: Painting and Sculpture Since 1965 from the Permanent Collection", June 02, 1983 - December 04, 1983
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, "American Art Since 1970: Painting, Sculpture, and Drawings from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York", March 10, 1984 - April 22, 1984
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, "American Art Since 1970: Painting, Sculpture, and Drawings from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York", May 17, 1984 - July 29, 1984
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, "American Art Since 1970: Painting, Sculpture, and Drawings from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York", September 29, 1984 - November 25, 1984
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE, "American Art Since 1970: Painting, Sculpture, and Drawings from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York", January 12, 1985 - March 03, 1985
Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL, "American Art Since 1970: Painting, Sculpture, and Drawings from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York", March 30, 1985 - May 26, 1985
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Figure as Subject: The Last Decade, Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art", February 13, 1986 - May 28, 1986
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Major Acquisitions Since 1980: Selected Paintings & Sculpture", September 18, 1986 - November 30, 1986
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, "Figure as Subject: The Revival of Figuration Since 1975", April 06, 1988 - June 12, 1988
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, "Figure as Subject: The Revival of Figuration Since 1975", June 27, 1988 - August 21, 1988
Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX, "Figure as Subject: The Revival of Figuration Since 1975", September 10, 1988 - October 16, 1988
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, "Figure as Subject: The Revival of Figuration Since 1975", November 13, 1988 - January 08, 1989
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, "Figure as Subject: The Revival of Figuration Since 1975", February 04, 1989 - March 26, 1989
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Art in Place: Fifteen Years of Acquisitions", July 28, 1989 - October 29, 1989
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "20th-Century American Art: Highlights of the Permanent Collection", October 24, 1989 - February 03, 1991
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Figurative Art in the Permanent Collection", September 09, 1992 - November 29, 1992
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "An American Story", March 20, 1996 - September 29, 1996
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, "Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art II", January 31, 1997 - May 04, 1997
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3 - American Realities", July 11, 1997 - October 05, 1997
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, "Shifting Visions: O'Keefe, Guston, Richter", October 10, 1998 - January 24, 1999
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "The American Century, Art & Culture 1900 - 2000, Part II 1950 - 2000", September 26, 1999 - February 13, 2000
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "De Kooning to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection", October 10, 2002 - March 02, 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
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
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Full House: Views of the Whitney's Collection at 75", June 29, 2006 - September 03, 2006
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Collecting Biennials", January 16, 2010 - November 28, 2010
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "America is Hard to See", May 01, 2015 - September 27, 2015
Bibliography
New Painting/New York. Exh. cat. London: Hayward Gallery, 1979, unnumbered in cat., not illus.
Danville (CA) Valley Pioneer. "Philip Guston Dead at 67." June 18, 1980, illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 79, illus. in color plate 68 p. 110
Hills, Patricia, and Roberta K. Tarbell. The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980, illus. in b&w Fig. 160 p. 151 (described pp. 150-151)
Perreault, John. "Guston Winds." SoHo Weekly News, July 8, 1981, p. 51, mentioned in text, not illus.
American Art Since 1970: Painting, Sculpture, and Drawings from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984, illus. in b&w p. 57 and described in text p. 13
Figure as Subject: The Last Decade. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1986, illus. in b&w (unpaginated)
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 100 pp. 96-97
Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions 1973–1986. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1986, illus. in b&w and listed p. 45
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in text pp. 88 and 91, not illus.
Feld, Ross. "Guston in Time." Arts Magazine, November 1988, pp. 40-45, illus. in color p. 40
de Barañano, Kosme Maria. Philip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo. Exh. cat. Bilbao: Sala Rekalde, 1993, illus. in color p. 39 (Kosme de Baranano essay)
Brighton, Andrew, Nicholas Serota, Sandy Nairne, and Adam D. Weinberg. Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3—American Realities. Exh. cat. Essays by Andrew Brighton and Peter Wollen. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1997, listed p. 108
Cernuschi, Claude. "Not an Illustration but the Equivalent": A Cognitive Approach to Abstract Expressionism. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997, illus. in b&w p. 46
Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3: American Realities. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1997, illus. in color p. 80
DeLong, Lea Rosson. Shifting Visions O'Keeffe Guston Richter. Exh. cat. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1998, illus. in color p. 48 and mentioned in text p. 49
The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900–2000. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2000, illus. in color
Anfam, David. "Telling Tales: Philip Guston in Retrospect." Artforum International, May 2003, pp. 132–39, 192, mentioned in text p. 192, not illus.
Baker, Kenneth. "Philip Guston's Magnificent Conflicts Yielded Great Controversy. And Some Great Paintings as Well Says Kenneth Baker." San Francisco Chronicle, June 28, 2003, section DateBook, pp. D1, D10, mentioned in text p. D10, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 112, unpaginated
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 112 (unpaginated but would be p. 209)
Lambirth, Andrew. "Apocalyptic Vision." Spectator (London), January 24, 2004, p. 36, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston: Odd Man Out. BBC Four, January 28, 2004. Television, detail illus. in color
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.
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, Plate 38, illus. in color p. 187 and mentioned in text pp. 73 and 148
Salle, David. How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art. New York: W. W. Norton, 2016, illus. in b&w p. 138
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text pp. 49 and 74, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 189 illus. in color p. 181 and mentioned in text pp. 180 and 197
Haidu, Rachel. Each One Another: The Self in Contemporary Art. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2023, mentioned in text p. 51, not illus.
Danville (CA) Valley Pioneer. "Philip Guston Dead at 67." June 18, 1980, illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 79, illus. in color plate 68 p. 110
Hills, Patricia, and Roberta K. Tarbell. The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1980, illus. in b&w Fig. 160 p. 151 (described pp. 150-151)
Perreault, John. "Guston Winds." SoHo Weekly News, July 8, 1981, p. 51, mentioned in text, not illus.
American Art Since 1970: Painting, Sculpture, and Drawings from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984, illus. in b&w p. 57 and described in text p. 13
Figure as Subject: The Last Decade. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1986, illus. in b&w (unpaginated)
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 100 pp. 96-97
Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions 1973–1986. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1986, illus. in b&w and listed p. 45
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in text pp. 88 and 91, not illus.
Feld, Ross. "Guston in Time." Arts Magazine, November 1988, pp. 40-45, illus. in color p. 40
de Barañano, Kosme Maria. Philip Guston: La Raiz del Dibujo. Exh. cat. Bilbao: Sala Rekalde, 1993, illus. in color p. 39 (Kosme de Baranano essay)
Brighton, Andrew, Nicholas Serota, Sandy Nairne, and Adam D. Weinberg. Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3—American Realities. Exh. cat. Essays by Andrew Brighton and Peter Wollen. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1997, listed p. 108
Cernuschi, Claude. "Not an Illustration but the Equivalent": A Cognitive Approach to Abstract Expressionism. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997, illus. in b&w p. 46
Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3: American Realities. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1997, illus. in color p. 80
DeLong, Lea Rosson. Shifting Visions O'Keeffe Guston Richter. Exh. cat. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1998, illus. in color p. 48 and mentioned in text p. 49
The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900–2000. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2000, illus. in color
Anfam, David. "Telling Tales: Philip Guston in Retrospect." Artforum International, May 2003, pp. 132–39, 192, mentioned in text p. 192, not illus.
Baker, Kenneth. "Philip Guston's Magnificent Conflicts Yielded Great Controversy. And Some Great Paintings as Well Says Kenneth Baker." San Francisco Chronicle, June 28, 2003, section DateBook, pp. D1, D10, mentioned in text p. D10, not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 112, unpaginated
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 112 (unpaginated but would be p. 209)
Lambirth, Andrew. "Apocalyptic Vision." Spectator (London), January 24, 2004, p. 36, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston: Odd Man Out. BBC Four, January 28, 2004. Television, detail illus. in color
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.
Bucklow, Christopher. What Is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. Grasmere, England: Wordsworth Trust, 2007, Plate 38, illus. in color p. 187 and mentioned in text pp. 73 and 148
Salle, David. How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art. New York: W. W. Norton, 2016, illus. in b&w p. 138
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text pp. 49 and 74, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 189 illus. in color p. 181 and mentioned in text pp. 180 and 197
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
Cabal
Date
1977
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68 × 116 in. (172.7 × 294.6 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue Number
P77.011
Provenance
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; 50th Anniversary Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Learsy 81.38
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Learsy
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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