Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné
Title
Friend - To M.F.
Date
1978
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68 x 88 in.172.7 x 223.5 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "FRIEND-TO.M.F." [underlined] 1978 [obscured]/ OIL ON CANVAS/ 68" x 88"
Catalogue No.
P78.043
Note
M.F. = Morton Feldman
Provenance
Des Moines Art Center, Purchased with funds from the Coffin Fine Arts Trust; Nathan Emory Coffin Collection of the Des Moines Art Center, 1991.48
Doris and Charles Saatchi, London
Exhibitions
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "1979 Biennial Exhibition", February 06, 1979 - April 01, 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
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, "The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections 1940-1980", November 20, 1983 - February 19, 1984
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland, "Art of Our Time", August 09, 1987 - August 31, 1987
Saatchi Gallery, London, England, "Leon Golub, Sigmar Polke, Philip Guston, Joel Shapiro: the Saatchi Collection", April 29, 1988 - September 01, 1988
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany, "Concert Eberhard Blum in Honor to Morton Feldman", January 21, 1996
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, "From Body to Being: Reflections on the Human Image", February 01, 1997 - April 29, 1997
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, "Commitment, Community and Controversy: The Des Moines Art Center Collections", January 24, 1998 - May 10, 1998
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
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, "Art Center: 75 Years of Iowa Art", February 23, 2023 - May 07, 2023
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
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, "The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections 1940-1980", November 20, 1983 - February 19, 1984
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland, "Art of Our Time", August 09, 1987 - August 31, 1987
Saatchi Gallery, London, England, "Leon Golub, Sigmar Polke, Philip Guston, Joel Shapiro: the Saatchi Collection", April 29, 1988 - September 01, 1988
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989
Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", May 25, 1989 - July 16, 1989
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", September 09, 1989 - October 22, 1989
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", November 19, 1989 - January 14, 1990
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany, "Concert Eberhard Blum in Honor to Morton Feldman", January 21, 1996
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, "From Body to Being: Reflections on the Human Image", February 01, 1997 - April 29, 1997
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, "Commitment, Community and Controversy: The Des Moines Art Center Collections", January 24, 1998 - May 10, 1998
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
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, "Art Center: 75 Years of Iowa Art", February 23, 2023 - May 07, 2023
Bibliography
Zimmer, William. "Art for the Me Decade." SoHo Weekly News, March 1, 1979, pp. 39, 41, illus. in b&w p. 39
Saunders, Wade. "Art Inc.: The Whitney's 1979 Biennial." Art in America, May–June 1979, pp. 96–97, illus. in color p. 96
1979 Biennial Exhibition. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1979, unnumbered catalog, not illus.
Demoro, Harre W. "SCM Sponsoring S.F. Modern Art Exhibit with More Than Altruism in Mind." San Francisco Business Journal, May 26, 1980, pp. 14–15, illus. p. 14
Toucatt, Ralph. "Metamorphosis: The Art of Philip Guston." The Threepenny Review, Fall 1980, p. 24, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 91, illus. in color plate 80 p. 122
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 31, illus. in color p. 42 (unpaginated)
The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections 1940-1980. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1983, illus. in color p. 267
Fuchs, Rudi, Hilton Kramer, and Peter Schjeldahl. Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection, vol. 3. London: Lund Humphries, 1984, illus. in color Plate 26 pp. 62-63 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text p. 14 (Peter Schjeldahl essay)
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in b&w no. 47 p. 51 and mentioned in text p. 56
Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection. Exh. cat. Royal Scottish Academy, [1987], illus. in color p. 12
Welish, Marjorie. "I Confess: The Drawings of Philip Guston." Arts Magazine, November 1988, pp. 46–50, mentioned in text p. 50, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, mentioned in text p. 157, not illus.
Fernandez, Horacio. "El Último Perplejo." El Europeo, March 1989, pp. 66-74, illus. in color p. 67 and small image repeated on pp. 68, 70, 72 & 74
Peele, Stanton. "Ain't Misbehaving: Addition Has Become an All-Purpose Excuse." Sciences, July/August 1989, pp. 14–21, illus. p. 18
Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura. Exh. cat. Essays by Mark Rosenthal, Robert Storr, Carrie Rickey, Francisco Calvo Serraller, and Dore Ashton. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, Centro Nacional de Exposiciones, 1989, cat. no. 64, illus. in color p. 140
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. 1988. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1990, mentioned in text p. 157, not illus.
Nusbaum, Eliot. "Art Center Purchases Two New Works." Des Moines Register, December 31, 1991, section Metro and Iowa News, p. M1, illus. in b&w p. M1
Schjeldahl, Peter. The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978–1990. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991, mentioned in text p. 230, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, London: Thames and Hudson, 1991, mentioned in text p. 157, not illus.
Orduna, Arthur. "I. Michael Danoff, Director of the Des Moines Art Center: A New Perspective." Des Moines Skywalker, January 22-29, 1992, p. 11.
DMAC News, March/April 1992, illus. on cover
Nusbaum, Eliot. "Guston's 'Friend': A Daring Choice." Des Moines Register, June 7, 1992, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
Corbett, William. "Prologue: Marlborough Gallery October 1970." Agni 35 (1992), pp. 165–68, mentioned in text pp. 167-168, not illus.
Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text p. 8, not illus.
Kimmelman, Michael. "The Abstract Expressionist of Music." The New York Times, July 28, 1996, section 2 Arts & Leisure, p. 28, illus. in b&w
Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit. Exh. cat. Bremen: Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, 1996, illus. in b&w p. 75
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. Reprint, Boston: Da Capo Press, 1997, mentioned in text p. 157, not illus.
DeLong, Lea Rosson. Shifting Visions O'Keeffe Guston Richter. Exh. cat. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1998, illus. in color p. 50 and mentioned in text pp. 49-51
An Uncommon Vision: The Des Moines Art Center. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1998, illus. in color p. 129 and mentioned in text p. 128
Welish, Marjorie. "The Art of Philip Guston." In Signifying Art: Essays on Art After 1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, mentioned in text pp. 149 and 156, not illus.
Ottinger, Didier. La Trahison de Philip Guston. Paris: L'Echoppe, 2000, mentioned in text p. 8, not illus.
Blum, Eberhard. Choice & Change. Berlin: Berlinische Galerie, 2000, illus. in b&w p. 110, 153 and 155
Friedman, B. H., ed. Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman. Cambridge, MA: Exact Change, 2000, illus. in color on front cover
Gibson, Robin. Painting The Century: 101 Portrait Masterpieces. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2001, illus. in color Fig. 7 p. 26 and mentioned in text pp. 26 and 40-41
Danto, Arthur C. "The Abstract Impressionist." Nation, December 11, 2003. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Intuition & Response: Masterworks from the Edward R. Broida Collection. Exh. cat. Jacksonville: Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, 2003, illus. in color p. 6, reference p. 7
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 123 (unpaginated but would be p. 220)
Feld, Ross. Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003, illus. in b&w (no page #) and mentioned in text p. 71
Feld, Ross. Erinnerungen an Philip Guston Mit dem Briefwechsel zwischen Feld und Guston. Kippenheim-Schmieheim: Verlag Kurt Liebig, 2003, illus. in color p. 77
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 123, unpaginated
Roth, Philip. "The Odd Couple." Sunday Telegraph Magazine, January 4, 2004, pp. 16–19, illus. in color p. 18
Searle, Adrian. "The Devil Inside: Philip Guston Was a Smoking, Boozing, Pill-Popping, Anxiety-Ridden Work-Obsessive. And It's All There in His Astonishing Work, Says Adrian Searle." Guardian, January 20, 2004, pp. 12–13, illus. in color p. 1 above masthead
Rubinstein, Raphael. "Philip Guston: Some Thoughts." Art in America, March 2004, mentioned in text p. 87, not illus.
Smith, Craig. "Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Flute." Santa Fe New Mexican, January 18–24, 2008, p. 30, illus. in color and mentioned in text
FALTER 40/10, Wein Modern 10. "Die Zeitlosigkeit unter der Mitternachtssonne." June 10, 2010, illus. in color pg. 5 and illus. in color on cover
Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts. Exh. cat. Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2010, illus. in color p. 65
Sylvester, David. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. NichtSoKleineBibliothek 8. Bern: Piet Meyer Verlag, 2013, illus. in color p. 73, illus. no. 27
Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. New York: American Academy in Rome; New York Review of Books, 2014, illus. in color Fig. 35 p. 96 (unpaginated). Also mentioned in text p. 95
Burnett, Craig. Philip Guston: The Studio. London: Afterall Books, 2014, illus. in color plate 13 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text p. 67
Micchelli, Thomas. "Flesh and Bones: Philip Guston's 'Thingness.'" Hyperallergic, April 30, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Schwabsky, Barry. "The Chameleon Painter: Even in His Most Pared-Down Paintings, Philip Guston Was Digging for Something New." Nation, June 1, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Lavista, Mario. Cuaderno de música. 2013. Reprint, Mexico City: El Colegio Nacional, 2016, illus. in color p. 101
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Munich: Sieveking Verlag; Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, mentioned in text p. 218, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: Un ritratto intimo di Philip Guston. Monza: Johan & Levi, 2017, mentioned in text p. 180, not illus.
Página/12 (Buenos Aires). "Agenda: Del domingo 17 al sábado 23: SÁBADO 23, MÚSICA." November 17, 2019. Online, illus. in color
Mayer, Musa. Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971. Exh. cat. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2019, mentioned in text p. 58, not illus.
Conversations on Artists' Estates & Modern Masters for Art Basel 2019. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2019, illus. in color and mentioned in text p. 84
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 94 illus. in color p. 103 and mentioned in text pp. 103 and 180
Roelstraete, Dieter. "Die Angst Vor Der Kunst." Monopol, September 2022, pp. 54-66., mentioned in text p. 58, 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 p. 67
Philip Guston. Lyon: FAGE éditions, 2022, illus. in color p. 61
Dohoney, Ryan. Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, illus. in b&w Fig. 4.4 p. 163 and mentioned in text pp. 163, 166, and 172
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2023, mentioned in text p. 218, not illus.
Saunders, Wade. "Art Inc.: The Whitney's 1979 Biennial." Art in America, May–June 1979, pp. 96–97, illus. in color p. 96
1979 Biennial Exhibition. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1979, unnumbered catalog, not illus.
Demoro, Harre W. "SCM Sponsoring S.F. Modern Art Exhibit with More Than Altruism in Mind." San Francisco Business Journal, May 26, 1980, pp. 14–15, illus. p. 14
Toucatt, Ralph. "Metamorphosis: The Art of Philip Guston." The Threepenny Review, Fall 1980, p. 24, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 91, illus. in color plate 80 p. 122
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 31, illus. in color p. 42 (unpaginated)
The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections 1940-1980. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1983, illus. in color p. 267
Fuchs, Rudi, Hilton Kramer, and Peter Schjeldahl. Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection, vol. 3. London: Lund Humphries, 1984, illus. in color Plate 26 pp. 62-63 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text p. 14 (Peter Schjeldahl essay)
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in b&w no. 47 p. 51 and mentioned in text p. 56
Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection. Exh. cat. Royal Scottish Academy, [1987], illus. in color p. 12
Welish, Marjorie. "I Confess: The Drawings of Philip Guston." Arts Magazine, November 1988, pp. 46–50, mentioned in text p. 50, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, mentioned in text p. 157, not illus.
Fernandez, Horacio. "El Último Perplejo." El Europeo, March 1989, pp. 66-74, illus. in color p. 67 and small image repeated on pp. 68, 70, 72 & 74
Peele, Stanton. "Ain't Misbehaving: Addition Has Become an All-Purpose Excuse." Sciences, July/August 1989, pp. 14–21, illus. p. 18
Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura. Exh. cat. Essays by Mark Rosenthal, Robert Storr, Carrie Rickey, Francisco Calvo Serraller, and Dore Ashton. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, Centro Nacional de Exposiciones, 1989, cat. no. 64, illus. in color p. 140
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston by His Daughter. 1988. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1990, mentioned in text p. 157, not illus.
Nusbaum, Eliot. "Art Center Purchases Two New Works." Des Moines Register, December 31, 1991, section Metro and Iowa News, p. M1, illus. in b&w p. M1
Schjeldahl, Peter. The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978–1990. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991, mentioned in text p. 230, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, London: Thames and Hudson, 1991, mentioned in text p. 157, not illus.
Orduna, Arthur. "I. Michael Danoff, Director of the Des Moines Art Center: A New Perspective." Des Moines Skywalker, January 22-29, 1992, p. 11.
DMAC News, March/April 1992, illus. on cover
Nusbaum, Eliot. "Guston's 'Friend': A Daring Choice." Des Moines Register, June 7, 1992, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
Corbett, William. "Prologue: Marlborough Gallery October 1970." Agni 35 (1992), pp. 165–68, mentioned in text pp. 167-168, not illus.
Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text p. 8, not illus.
Kimmelman, Michael. "The Abstract Expressionist of Music." The New York Times, July 28, 1996, section 2 Arts & Leisure, p. 28, illus. in b&w
Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit. Exh. cat. Bremen: Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, 1996, illus. in b&w p. 75
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. Reprint, Boston: Da Capo Press, 1997, mentioned in text p. 157, not illus.
DeLong, Lea Rosson. Shifting Visions O'Keeffe Guston Richter. Exh. cat. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1998, illus. in color p. 50 and mentioned in text pp. 49-51
An Uncommon Vision: The Des Moines Art Center. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1998, illus. in color p. 129 and mentioned in text p. 128
Welish, Marjorie. "The Art of Philip Guston." In Signifying Art: Essays on Art After 1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, mentioned in text pp. 149 and 156, not illus.
Ottinger, Didier. La Trahison de Philip Guston. Paris: L'Echoppe, 2000, mentioned in text p. 8, not illus.
Blum, Eberhard. Choice & Change. Berlin: Berlinische Galerie, 2000, illus. in b&w p. 110, 153 and 155
Friedman, B. H., ed. Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman. Cambridge, MA: Exact Change, 2000, illus. in color on front cover
Gibson, Robin. Painting The Century: 101 Portrait Masterpieces. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2001, illus. in color Fig. 7 p. 26 and mentioned in text pp. 26 and 40-41
Danto, Arthur C. "The Abstract Impressionist." Nation, December 11, 2003. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Intuition & Response: Masterworks from the Edward R. Broida Collection. Exh. cat. Jacksonville: Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, 2003, illus. in color p. 6, reference p. 7
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 123 (unpaginated but would be p. 220)
Feld, Ross. Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003, illus. in b&w (no page #) and mentioned in text p. 71
Feld, Ross. Erinnerungen an Philip Guston Mit dem Briefwechsel zwischen Feld und Guston. Kippenheim-Schmieheim: Verlag Kurt Liebig, 2003, illus. in color p. 77
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 123, unpaginated
Roth, Philip. "The Odd Couple." Sunday Telegraph Magazine, January 4, 2004, pp. 16–19, illus. in color p. 18
Searle, Adrian. "The Devil Inside: Philip Guston Was a Smoking, Boozing, Pill-Popping, Anxiety-Ridden Work-Obsessive. And It's All There in His Astonishing Work, Says Adrian Searle." Guardian, January 20, 2004, pp. 12–13, illus. in color p. 1 above masthead
Rubinstein, Raphael. "Philip Guston: Some Thoughts." Art in America, March 2004, mentioned in text p. 87, not illus.
Smith, Craig. "Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Flute." Santa Fe New Mexican, January 18–24, 2008, p. 30, illus. in color and mentioned in text
FALTER 40/10, Wein Modern 10. "Die Zeitlosigkeit unter der Mitternachtssonne." June 10, 2010, illus. in color pg. 5 and illus. in color on cover
Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts. Exh. cat. Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2010, illus. in color p. 65
Sylvester, David. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. NichtSoKleineBibliothek 8. Bern: Piet Meyer Verlag, 2013, illus. in color p. 73, illus. no. 27
Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. New York: American Academy in Rome; New York Review of Books, 2014, illus. in color Fig. 35 p. 96 (unpaginated). Also mentioned in text p. 95
Burnett, Craig. Philip Guston: The Studio. London: Afterall Books, 2014, illus. in color plate 13 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text p. 67
Micchelli, Thomas. "Flesh and Bones: Philip Guston's 'Thingness.'" Hyperallergic, April 30, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Schwabsky, Barry. "The Chameleon Painter: Even in His Most Pared-Down Paintings, Philip Guston Was Digging for Something New." Nation, June 1, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Lavista, Mario. Cuaderno de música. 2013. Reprint, Mexico City: El Colegio Nacional, 2016, illus. in color p. 101
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Munich: Sieveking Verlag; Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, mentioned in text p. 218, not illus.
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: Un ritratto intimo di Philip Guston. Monza: Johan & Levi, 2017, mentioned in text p. 180, not illus.
Página/12 (Buenos Aires). "Agenda: Del domingo 17 al sábado 23: SÁBADO 23, MÚSICA." November 17, 2019. Online, illus. in color
Mayer, Musa. Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971. Exh. cat. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2019, mentioned in text p. 58, not illus.
Conversations on Artists' Estates & Modern Masters for Art Basel 2019. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2019, illus. in color and mentioned in text p. 84
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 94 illus. in color p. 103 and mentioned in text pp. 103 and 180
Roelstraete, Dieter. "Die Angst Vor Der Kunst." Monopol, September 2022, pp. 54-66., mentioned in text p. 58, 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 p. 67
Philip Guston. Lyon: FAGE éditions, 2022, illus. in color p. 61
Dohoney, Ryan. Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, illus. in b&w Fig. 4.4 p. 163 and mentioned in text pp. 163, 166, and 172
Mayer, Musa. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 1988. Reprint, Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2023, mentioned in text p. 218, not illus.
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Title
Friend - To M.F.
Date
1978
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68 × 88 in. (172.7 × 223.5 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "FRIEND-TO.M.F." [underlined] 1978 [obscured]/ OIL ON CANVAS/ 68" x 88"
Catalogue Number
P78.043
Note
M.F. = Morton Feldman
Provenance
Des Moines Art Center, Purchased with funds from the Coffin Fine Arts Trust; Nathan Emory Coffin Collection of the Des Moines Art Center, 1991.48
Doris and Charles Saatchi, London
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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