Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné
Title
Plain
Date
1979
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
69 x 93 in.175.3 x 236.2 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue No.
P79.004
Provenance
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Fellows Fund, 80.26
Exhibitions
David McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1978-1979", October 06, 1979 - November 10, 1979
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, "Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Part Two", October 01, 1983 - December 04, 1983
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, "Pittsburgh Collects", February 20, 1993 - April 25, 1993
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, "Ordinary Madness", October 15, 2010 - January 09, 2011
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, "Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Part Two", October 01, 1983 - December 04, 1983
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, "Pittsburgh Collects", February 20, 1993 - April 25, 1993
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, "Ordinary Madness", October 15, 2010 - January 09, 2011
Bibliography
Philip Guston Paintings 1978–1979. Exh. cat. New York: David McKee Gallery, 1979, cat. no. 5, illus. in color
Albright, Thomas. "Philip Guston: 'It's a Strange Thing to Be Immersed in the Culture of Painting...'" ARTnews, September 1980, pp. 114–16, illus. in color p. 116
Pittsburgh Press. "Philip Guston Painting Joins Museum Collection," October 15, 1980. p. C-8, mention in text, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 94, illus. in color plate 83 p. 125
Pittsburgh Press. "Philip Guston's Art Exhibited At Museum." October 21, 1981, mentioned in text, not illus.
"Acquisitions of American Art (1776–1980) by British and American Museums: Supplement." Burlington Magazine 123 (1981): pp. 713–14, illus. Fig. 137
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute Collection Handbook. Pittsburgh: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, 1985, p. 204, color illus. p. 305
Benlap, Gillian. The Carnegie Museum of Art: Collection Highlights. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art, 1995, illus. in color p. 189
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 125, unpaginated
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 125 (unpaginated but would be p. 222)
Heller, Michael. "Philip Guston." Chicago Review 49, no. 3–4 (2004), pp. 402-405, mentioned in text p. 403, not illus.
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text pp. 49, 59 and 73, not illus.
Haidu, Rachel. Each One Another: The Self in Contemporary Art. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2023, mentioned in text p. 51, not illus.
Albright, Thomas. "Philip Guston: 'It's a Strange Thing to Be Immersed in the Culture of Painting...'" ARTnews, September 1980, pp. 114–16, illus. in color p. 116
Pittsburgh Press. "Philip Guston Painting Joins Museum Collection," October 15, 1980. p. C-8, mention in text, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 94, illus. in color plate 83 p. 125
Pittsburgh Press. "Philip Guston's Art Exhibited At Museum." October 21, 1981, mentioned in text, not illus.
"Acquisitions of American Art (1776–1980) by British and American Museums: Supplement." Burlington Magazine 123 (1981): pp. 713–14, illus. Fig. 137
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute Collection Handbook. Pittsburgh: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, 1985, p. 204, color illus. p. 305
Benlap, Gillian. The Carnegie Museum of Art: Collection Highlights. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art, 1995, illus. in color p. 189
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 125, unpaginated
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 125 (unpaginated but would be p. 222)
Heller, Michael. "Philip Guston." Chicago Review 49, no. 3–4 (2004), pp. 402-405, mentioned in text p. 403, not illus.
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text pp. 49, 59 and 73, not illus.
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
Plain
Date
1979
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
69 × 93 in. (175.3 × 236.2 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue Number
P79.004
Provenance
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Fellows Fund, 80.26
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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