Signed front lower left: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "PAINTER'S FORMS II" [underlined] 1978/ OIL ON CANVAS 75 x 108 [underlined]
Catalogue No.
P78.021
Provenance
Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Museum purchase, The Friends of Art Endowment Fund
Exhibitions
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980 Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, "Maelstrom: Contemporary Images of Violence", April 10, 1986 - June 20, 1986 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989 McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Major Paintings from the Seventies", October 05, 1996 - November 09, 1996 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 Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, "Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and their Influences", June 29, 2007 - September 23, 2007 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, "Ten Years", November 22, 2012 - August 12, 2013 Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Highlights from the Permanent Collection", August 21, 2016 - February 05, 2017 Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy, "Philip Guston and the Poets", May 10, 2017 - September 03, 2017 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
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Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, London: Thames and Hudson, 1991, illus. in b&w no. 52 (following p. 146) and mentioned in text p. 159
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Posnock, Ross. Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity. Princeton: Princeton University, 2006, mentioned in text p. 240, 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. 110-111 and mentioned in text pp. 88-89 and 102
Cole-Cunningham, Ragan, ed. Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and Their Influences. Exh. cat. Essay by Thomas Lawson. Virginia Beach: Contemporary Art Center, Virginia, 2007, illus. in color
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Urfalino, Mathilde. "Les poem-pictures de Philip Guston." octopusnotes, December 2013, illus. in b&w fig. 50 p. 51
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. 92, not illus.
Eaton, William. "Guston, Schapiro, Rosenberg,...Dialogue." Zeteo Journal, July 13, 2016. Online, illus. in color in endnotes and mentioned in endnotes
Gieskes, Mette. "I is an Other: Philip Guston's Imagined Incarnations of God and Klansmen." In Example or Alter Ego? Aspects of the Portrait Historie in Western Art from Antiquity to the Present. Edited by Volker Manuth, Rudie van Leeuwen, and Jos Koldeweij. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016, mentioned in text p. 292, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Munich: Sieveking Verlag; Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. no. 94, illus. in color p. 221 and mentioned in text p. 220
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Art It. "Philip Guston and the Poets @ Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia." May 25, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Nastro, Santa and Marco Enrico Giacomelli. "Philip Guston Un Grande Artista a Venezia." Artribune (Rome), June 2017, pp. 56–58, illus. in color p. 56
Sirlin, Deanna. "Philip Guston: A Painter and His Muses." Art Section (Atlanta), June 2017. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Ure-Smith, Jane. "Shape-Shifter: The Careers of Philip Guston." Economist, June 2, 2017. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Daydé, Emmanuel. "Philip Guston: Affreux, Sale et Géant." Art Absolument (Paris), July 2017, pp. 58–61, illus. in color p. 61
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Caliandro, Christian. "L'arte rotta (VII). Imprevisto e libertà secondo gli artisti." Artribune (Rome), February 24, 2020. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
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Bolton-Fasman, Judy. "The Art and Social Conscience of Jewish Artist Philip Guston." JewishBoston, June 28, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of slideshow
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Philip Guston: The Irony of History. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2025, mentioned in text p. 41, not illus.
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Signed front lower left: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "PAINTER'S FORMS II" [underlined] 1978/ OIL ON CANVAS 75 x 108 [underlined]
Catalogue Number
P78.021
Provenance
Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Museum purchase, The Friends of Art Endowment Fund
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