Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné
Title
For M.
Date
1955
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76⅜ x 72¼ in.194.0 x 183.5 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston
Catalogue No.
P55.004
Provenance
Collection SFMOMA, Anonymous gift, Los Angeles
Private Collection, Los Angeles
Mr. Sander L. Feldman, Philadelphia
Exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "Recent Paintings Philip Guston", February 06, 1956 - March 03, 1956
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "12 Americans", May 29, 1956 - September 09, 1956
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, "The 1958 Pittsburgh Bicentennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture", December 05, 1958 - February 08, 1959
Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, "II. documenta '59, Kunst Nach 1945", July 11, 1959 - October 11, 1959
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970", October 18, 1969 - February 01, 1970
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA, "A Look at New York", June 12, 1973 - July 22, 1973
Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID, "American Abstracts: 1948-1965", September 11, 1976 - October 22, 1976
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Philip Guston: New Works in San Francisco, December 21, 1978 - January 21, 1979
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, "California Collects: Important Works from the Permanent Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art", December 17, 1981 - February 14, 1982
Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany, "Europa/Amerika: Die Geschichte einer Kunstlerischen Faszination seit 1940", September 06, 1986 - November 30, 1986
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany, "Stationen der Moderne", September 25, 1988 - January 08, 1989
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989
Lingotto Exhibition Spaces, Turin, Italy, "Arte Americana 1930-1970", January 11, 1992 - March 31, 1992
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "From Matisse to Diebenkorn: Selections from the Collection of Painting and Sculpture", July 10, 1995 - August 29, 1996
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Matisse and Beyond: The Painting and Sculpture Collection", May 22, 1997 - August 21, 1999
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", September 02, 1999 - November 01, 1999
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Points of Departure: Connecting with Contemporary Art", March 23, 2001 - October 28, 2001
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, "Matisse and Beyond: The Painting and Sculpture Collection", February 22, 2008 - October 07, 2009
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "75 Years of Looking Forward: Focus on Artists", September 29, 2009 - February 23, 2011
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France, "Icônes américaines—Chefs-d’œuvre du SFMOMA et de la collection Fisher" (American Icons: Masterworks from SFMOMA and the Fisher Collection), April 08, 2015 - June 22, 2015
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy, "Philip Guston and the Poets", May 10, 2017 - September 03, 2017
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "12 Americans", May 29, 1956 - September 09, 1956
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, "The 1958 Pittsburgh Bicentennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture", December 05, 1958 - February 08, 1959
Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, "II. documenta '59, Kunst Nach 1945", July 11, 1959 - October 11, 1959
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, "Philip Guston", September 20, 1962 - October 15, 1962
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston", January 16, 1963 - February 17, 1963
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, "Philip Guston", March 01, 1963 - March 24, 1963
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, "Philip Guston", May 22, 1963 - June 30, 1963
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970", October 18, 1969 - February 01, 1970
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA, "A Look at New York", June 12, 1973 - July 22, 1973
Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID, "American Abstracts: 1948-1965", September 11, 1976 - October 22, 1976
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Philip Guston: New Works in San Francisco, December 21, 1978 - January 21, 1979
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
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, "California Collects: Important Works from the Permanent Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art", December 17, 1981 - February 14, 1982
Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany, "Europa/Amerika: Die Geschichte einer Kunstlerischen Faszination seit 1940", September 06, 1986 - November 30, 1986
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany, "Stationen der Moderne", September 25, 1988 - January 08, 1989
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
Lingotto Exhibition Spaces, Turin, Italy, "Arte Americana 1930-1970", January 11, 1992 - March 31, 1992
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "From Matisse to Diebenkorn: Selections from the Collection of Painting and Sculpture", July 10, 1995 - August 29, 1996
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Matisse and Beyond: The Painting and Sculpture Collection", May 22, 1997 - August 21, 1999
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", September 02, 1999 - November 01, 1999
Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", February 16, 2000 - April 24, 2000
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, "Philip Guston: Paintings of Four Decades", May 12, 2000 - July 30, 2000
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Points of Departure: Connecting with Contemporary Art", March 23, 2001 - October 28, 2001
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
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Matisse and Beyond: The Painting and Sculpture Collection", February 22, 2008 - October 07, 2009
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "75 Years of Looking Forward: Focus on Artists", September 29, 2009 - February 23, 2011
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France, "Icônes américaines—Chefs-d’œuvre du SFMOMA et de la collection Fisher" (American Icons: Masterworks from SFMOMA and the Fisher Collection), April 08, 2015 - June 22, 2015
Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France, "Icônes américaines—Chefs-d’œuvre du SFMOMA et de la collection Fisher" (American Icons: Masterworks from SFMOMA and the Fisher Collection), July 11, 2015 - October 18, 2015
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy, "Philip Guston and the Poets", May 10, 2017 - September 03, 2017
Bibliography
Ashton, Dore. "Art: The Age of Lyricism" Arts & Architecture, March 1956, pp. 14–15, 43–44, illus. in b&w p. 15
Miller, Dorothy C., ed. 12 Americans. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1956, unnumbered catalog, not illus.
The 1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture. Exh. cat. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1958, cat. no. 192, not illus., listed as "Form"
II. documenta. Kunst nach 1945. Exh. cat. Cologne: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1959, Guston cat. no. 1, not illus.
Hunter, Sam, "Philip Guston," Art International, May 1962, pp. 62–67, mentioned in text p. 66, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1962, cat. no. 28, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 28, illus. in b&w p. 64, Private Collection, Los Angeles
Nordland, Gerald. "Review at Mid-Life." Frontier, July 1963, pp. 23–25, mentioned in text p. 25, not illus.
Yates, Peter. "Philip Guston at the County Museum." Arts & Architecture, September 1963, pp. 4–5, 31–32, illus. in b&w pg. 5
Geldzahler, Henry. New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940–1970. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1969, cat. no. 114 illus. in b&w p. 172
Nordland, Gerald. "Nordland's View Of Nordland." San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle, section California Living, December 10, 1972, pp. 17-24, illus. in color p. 21
O'Hara, Frank. "Growth and Guston." In Art Chronicles 1954–1966. New York: George Braziller, 1975, pp. 134-141, mentioned in text p. 137, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 109, mentioned in text p. 108
Stofflet-Santiago, Mary. "Philip Guston—A Thorough Preview." Artweek, January 13, 1979, pp. 1, 16, mentioned in text p. 16, not illus.
Butterfield, Jan. "A Very Anxious Fix: Philip Guston." Images & Issues, Summer 1980, pp. 30–35, illus. in b&w p. 30 and mentioned in text p. 35
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. 115 (unpaginated)
Rickey, Carrie. "Gust, Gusto, Guston." Artforum, October 1980, pp. 32–39, mentioned in text p. 38, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 26, illus. in color plate 20 p. 64
Grant, Daniel. "Philip Guston, Rebel Painter in Retrospect." Newsday, July 12, 1981, section Part II, pp. 17-18, mentioned in text p. 17, not illus.
Stationen der Moderne. Die bedeutenden Kunstausstellungen des 20. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland. Exh. cat. Berlin: Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Photographie und Architektur, 1988, cat. no. 16/22, illus. in b&w p. 444. Work reproduced upside down
Ya (Madrid). "La Reina inauguró la exposición Philip Guston en el Centro de Arte Reina Sofia." May 12, 1989, illus.
Brandenburg, John. "Seeing Guston's Art Requires a 'Leap' to Dallas." Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK), December 24, 1989, section Travel & Entertainment, p. 4, mentioned in text, not illus., incorrectly listed as being from the mid-1940s
Conover, Kirsten A. "Philip Guston: an Artist Who Dared Draw Things You Can Recognize." Christian Science Monitor, December 27, 1989, section Art, mentioned in text, not illus.
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. 13, illus. in color p. 44
Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 109
Haase, Amine. "Die Gewalt der lesbaren Bilder: Spektakulär Deutschland-Premiere des amerikanischen Malers Philip Guston." Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (Cologne), September 2, 1999, mentioned in text, not illus.
Schreier, Christoph, Michael Auping, and Martin Hentschel. Philip Guston: Gemalde 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1999, unnumbered catalog, illus. in color p. 71, shown in Bonn and Stuttgart
Ottinger, Didier, and Philip Roth. Philip Guston: Peintures 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2000, illus. in color p. 54
Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, illus. in color p. 71 and mentioned in text p. 37
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, illus. in color p. D10 and mentioned in text p. D1
Auping, Michael. "Philip Guston Retrospective." American Art Review, July–August 2003, illus. in color
Baker, Kenneth. "Shock of the New: Embracing Guston's Late Work at SFMOMA." San Francisco Chronicle, August 10, 2003, section Datebook, pp. 9–10, mentioned in text p. 10, not illus.
Nichols, Tucker. "'Philip Guston Made Me Do It.' Philip Guston Retrospective, SFMOMA June 28–September 28, 2003." Stretcher, September 2, 2003. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Anfam, David. "Eye to Eye with Philip Guston." RA Magazine, Winter 2003, pp. 34–38, illus. in color p. 36
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 38 (unpaginated but would be p. 137) and mentioned in text p. 46 (Michael Auping essay)
Feld, Ross. Erinnerungen an Philip Guston Mit dem Briefwechsel zwischen Feld und Guston. Kippenheim-Schmieheim: Verlag Kurt Liebig, 2003, illus. in color p. 31
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 38 (unpaginated but would be p. 137) and mentioned in text p. 46
Feld, Ross. Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003, illus. in b&w (no page #)
O'Hagan, Sean. "An Everyday Genius. Philip Roth's Friend, the Artist Philip Guston, Was a Star of the Sixties Who Risked His Reputation to Pursue a New Creative Vision. Now, 30 Years On, He Is Back in Vogue with a Retrospective at the RA." Observer Review (London), January 11, 2004, illus. in color p. 5
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. 13
Philip Guston: Odd Man Out. BBC Four, January 28, 2004. Television, illus. in color
McKenzie, Dr. Janet. "The Art of Philip Guston: 1913–1980." Studio International, March 5, 2004. Online, illus. in color
McKenzie, Janet. "The Art of Philip Guston: 1913-1980". In Studio International Yearbook. New York: The Studio Trust, 2007, pp. 60-67, Fig. 2, illus. in color p. 62
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon Guggenheim Foundation, 2009, illus. in color plate 62, p. 173
McDowell, Tara. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 75 Years of Looking Forward. Edited by Janet Bishop, Corey Keller, and Sarah Roberts. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2009, illus. in color plate 135 p. 176 and mentioned in text p. 175
Monet y la Abstraccion. Exh. cat. Madrid: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2010, illus. in color p. 35
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, mentioned in text p. 297, not illus.
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. 33 p. 90 (unpaginated). Also mentioned in text p. 91
Icônes américaines—Chefs-d'œuvre du SFMOMA et de la collection Fisher. Exh. cat. Paris: Editions de la Reunion des Musées Nationaux, 2015, cat. no. 17 illus. in color p. 70
Di Martino, Enzo. "Sorprendente Guston all'Accademia." Il Gazzettino (Rome), May 9, 2017, mentioned in text, not illus.
Wullschläger, Jackie. "Star-spangled biennale: Americans shine in Venice." Financial Times (London), May 12, 2017, section Visual Arts. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Muñoz-Alonso, Lorena. "Philip Guston Holds His Own Next to the Venetian Masters at the Gallerie dell'Accademia." artnet News, May 12, 2017. Online, illus. in color
"Philip Guston and the Poets at Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia, May 10–September 3, 2017." Arts Summary. Blog. May 13, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Wullschläger, Jackie. "Star-spangled biennale: Americans shine in Venice." Financial Times (London), May 13/14, 2017, section Arts, p. 12, mentioned in text, not illus.
Ober, Cara. "How Philip Guston Found Salvation in Poetry." Hyperallergic, June 21, 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. 60
Stremmel, Kerstin. "Seine Radikalität war schuld." Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich), July 7, 2017. Online, illus. in color as part of a slideshow
Reichert, Kolja. "Gemaltes lässt sich nicht sagen, Gesagtes nicht malen: Ein Höhepunkt im Kunstsommer: Die große Schau über Philip Gustons Verhältnis zur Poesie in Venedig." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Frankfurt am Main), August 4, 2017, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color p. 29
Scharpff-Striebich, Carolin, ed. Let's Talk Abstract. Berlin: DISTANZ, 2018, illus. in color pp. 57 and 142 and described pp. 145-148
Hess, Barbara. Abstract Expressionism. Cologne: Taschen, 2005. Reprint, Cologne: Taschen, 2019, illus. in color p. 41 and mentioned in text p. 40
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 48 illus. in color p. 65
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 38 and mentioned in text p. 40
Harris, Gareth. "Q&A: Philip Guston's daughter Musa Mayer on her new book and the uproar surrounding the artist's postponed show." Art Newspaper (London), February 4, 2021. Online, illus. in color
Seymour, Harry. "Growing up with Philip Guston -- my father." Christie's, February 5, 2021. Online, illus. in color
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. 27
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, mentioned in text p. 576, not illus.
Miller, Dorothy C., ed. 12 Americans. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1956, unnumbered catalog, not illus.
The 1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture. Exh. cat. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1958, cat. no. 192, not illus., listed as "Form"
II. documenta. Kunst nach 1945. Exh. cat. Cologne: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1959, Guston cat. no. 1, not illus.
Hunter, Sam, "Philip Guston," Art International, May 1962, pp. 62–67, mentioned in text p. 66, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1962, cat. no. 28, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 28, illus. in b&w p. 64, Private Collection, Los Angeles
Nordland, Gerald. "Review at Mid-Life." Frontier, July 1963, pp. 23–25, mentioned in text p. 25, not illus.
Yates, Peter. "Philip Guston at the County Museum." Arts & Architecture, September 1963, pp. 4–5, 31–32, illus. in b&w pg. 5
Geldzahler, Henry. New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940–1970. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1969, cat. no. 114 illus. in b&w p. 172
Nordland, Gerald. "Nordland's View Of Nordland." San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle, section California Living, December 10, 1972, pp. 17-24, illus. in color p. 21
O'Hara, Frank. "Growth and Guston." In Art Chronicles 1954–1966. New York: George Braziller, 1975, pp. 134-141, mentioned in text p. 137, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 109, mentioned in text p. 108
Stofflet-Santiago, Mary. "Philip Guston—A Thorough Preview." Artweek, January 13, 1979, pp. 1, 16, mentioned in text p. 16, not illus.
Butterfield, Jan. "A Very Anxious Fix: Philip Guston." Images & Issues, Summer 1980, pp. 30–35, illus. in b&w p. 30 and mentioned in text p. 35
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. 115 (unpaginated)
Rickey, Carrie. "Gust, Gusto, Guston." Artforum, October 1980, pp. 32–39, mentioned in text p. 38, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 26, illus. in color plate 20 p. 64
Grant, Daniel. "Philip Guston, Rebel Painter in Retrospect." Newsday, July 12, 1981, section Part II, pp. 17-18, mentioned in text p. 17, not illus.
Stationen der Moderne. Die bedeutenden Kunstausstellungen des 20. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland. Exh. cat. Berlin: Berlinische Galerie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Photographie und Architektur, 1988, cat. no. 16/22, illus. in b&w p. 444. Work reproduced upside down
Ya (Madrid). "La Reina inauguró la exposición Philip Guston en el Centro de Arte Reina Sofia." May 12, 1989, illus.
Brandenburg, John. "Seeing Guston's Art Requires a 'Leap' to Dallas." Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK), December 24, 1989, section Travel & Entertainment, p. 4, mentioned in text, not illus., incorrectly listed as being from the mid-1940s
Conover, Kirsten A. "Philip Guston: an Artist Who Dared Draw Things You Can Recognize." Christian Science Monitor, December 27, 1989, section Art, mentioned in text, not illus.
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. 13, illus. in color p. 44
Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 109
Haase, Amine. "Die Gewalt der lesbaren Bilder: Spektakulär Deutschland-Premiere des amerikanischen Malers Philip Guston." Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (Cologne), September 2, 1999, mentioned in text, not illus.
Schreier, Christoph, Michael Auping, and Martin Hentschel. Philip Guston: Gemalde 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1999, unnumbered catalog, illus. in color p. 71, shown in Bonn and Stuttgart
Ottinger, Didier, and Philip Roth. Philip Guston: Peintures 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2000, illus. in color p. 54
Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, illus. in color p. 71 and mentioned in text p. 37
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, illus. in color p. D10 and mentioned in text p. D1
Auping, Michael. "Philip Guston Retrospective." American Art Review, July–August 2003, illus. in color
Baker, Kenneth. "Shock of the New: Embracing Guston's Late Work at SFMOMA." San Francisco Chronicle, August 10, 2003, section Datebook, pp. 9–10, mentioned in text p. 10, not illus.
Nichols, Tucker. "'Philip Guston Made Me Do It.' Philip Guston Retrospective, SFMOMA June 28–September 28, 2003." Stretcher, September 2, 2003. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Anfam, David. "Eye to Eye with Philip Guston." RA Magazine, Winter 2003, pp. 34–38, illus. in color p. 36
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 38 (unpaginated but would be p. 137) and mentioned in text p. 46 (Michael Auping essay)
Feld, Ross. Erinnerungen an Philip Guston Mit dem Briefwechsel zwischen Feld und Guston. Kippenheim-Schmieheim: Verlag Kurt Liebig, 2003, illus. in color p. 31
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 38 (unpaginated but would be p. 137) and mentioned in text p. 46
Feld, Ross. Guston in Time: Remembering Philip Guston. New York: Counterpoint, 2003, illus. in b&w (no page #)
O'Hagan, Sean. "An Everyday Genius. Philip Roth's Friend, the Artist Philip Guston, Was a Star of the Sixties Who Risked His Reputation to Pursue a New Creative Vision. Now, 30 Years On, He Is Back in Vogue with a Retrospective at the RA." Observer Review (London), January 11, 2004, illus. in color p. 5
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. 13
Philip Guston: Odd Man Out. BBC Four, January 28, 2004. Television, illus. in color
McKenzie, Dr. Janet. "The Art of Philip Guston: 1913–1980." Studio International, March 5, 2004. Online, illus. in color
McKenzie, Janet. "The Art of Philip Guston: 1913-1980". In Studio International Yearbook. New York: The Studio Trust, 2007, pp. 60-67, Fig. 2, illus. in color p. 62
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon Guggenheim Foundation, 2009, illus. in color plate 62, p. 173
McDowell, Tara. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 75 Years of Looking Forward. Edited by Janet Bishop, Corey Keller, and Sarah Roberts. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2009, illus. in color plate 135 p. 176 and mentioned in text p. 175
Monet y la Abstraccion. Exh. cat. Madrid: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2010, illus. in color p. 35
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, mentioned in text p. 297, not illus.
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. 33 p. 90 (unpaginated). Also mentioned in text p. 91
Icônes américaines—Chefs-d'œuvre du SFMOMA et de la collection Fisher. Exh. cat. Paris: Editions de la Reunion des Musées Nationaux, 2015, cat. no. 17 illus. in color p. 70
Di Martino, Enzo. "Sorprendente Guston all'Accademia." Il Gazzettino (Rome), May 9, 2017, mentioned in text, not illus.
Wullschläger, Jackie. "Star-spangled biennale: Americans shine in Venice." Financial Times (London), May 12, 2017, section Visual Arts. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Muñoz-Alonso, Lorena. "Philip Guston Holds His Own Next to the Venetian Masters at the Gallerie dell'Accademia." artnet News, May 12, 2017. Online, illus. in color
"Philip Guston and the Poets at Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia, May 10–September 3, 2017." Arts Summary. Blog. May 13, 2017. Online, illus. in color
Wullschläger, Jackie. "Star-spangled biennale: Americans shine in Venice." Financial Times (London), May 13/14, 2017, section Arts, p. 12, mentioned in text, not illus.
Ober, Cara. "How Philip Guston Found Salvation in Poetry." Hyperallergic, June 21, 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. 60
Stremmel, Kerstin. "Seine Radikalität war schuld." Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich), July 7, 2017. Online, illus. in color as part of a slideshow
Reichert, Kolja. "Gemaltes lässt sich nicht sagen, Gesagtes nicht malen: Ein Höhepunkt im Kunstsommer: Die große Schau über Philip Gustons Verhältnis zur Poesie in Venedig." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Frankfurt am Main), August 4, 2017, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color p. 29
Scharpff-Striebich, Carolin, ed. Let's Talk Abstract. Berlin: DISTANZ, 2018, illus. in color pp. 57 and 142 and described pp. 145-148
Hess, Barbara. Abstract Expressionism. Cologne: Taschen, 2005. Reprint, Cologne: Taschen, 2019, illus. in color p. 41 and mentioned in text p. 40
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 48 illus. in color p. 65
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 38 and mentioned in text p. 40
Harris, Gareth. "Q&A: Philip Guston's daughter Musa Mayer on her new book and the uproar surrounding the artist's postponed show." Art Newspaper (London), February 4, 2021. Online, illus. in color
Seymour, Harry. "Growing up with Philip Guston -- my father." Christie's, February 5, 2021. Online, illus. in color
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. 27
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, mentioned in text p. 576, not illus.
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Title
For M.
Date
1955
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76⅜ × 72¼ in. (194.0 × 183.5 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston
Catalogue Number
P55.004
Provenance
Collection SFMOMA, Anonymous gift, Los Angeles
Private Collection, Los Angeles
Mr. Sander L. Feldman, Philadelphia
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