Signed and dated front lower center: Philip Guston '56; inscribed on reverse: "VOYAGE"/ 1956/ PHILIP GUSTON/ 72 x 26
Catalogue No.
P56.003
Provenance
Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1957
Seymour Knox, Jr.
Exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "Recent Paintings by 7 Americans", September 24, 1956 - October 20, 1956 Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, "Contemporary Americans", January 05, 1957 - January 27, 1957 Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, "Contemporary Art - Acquisitions 1954-1957", May 15, 1957 - June 15, 1957 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", February 24, 1958 - March 22, 1958 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "The Museum and Its Friends, Eighteen Living American Artists Selected by the Friends of the Whitney Museum, Second Loan Exhibition", March 05, 1959 - April 12, 1959 Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH, "Contemporary American Painting", January 14, 1960 - February 18, 1960 US Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, Venice , Italy, "Quattro Artisti Americani: Guston, Hofmann, Kline, Roszak, XXX Biennale Venezia", June 18, 1960 - October 16, 1960 Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, "Paintings and Sculpture from the Albright Art Gallery", January 15, 1961 - March 05, 1961 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, "Paintings and Sculpture from the Albright Art Gallery", April 27, 1961 - September 24, 1961 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962 Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, "Festival of the Creative Arts", October 06, 1964 - October 25, 1964 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Paintings from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery", May 19, 1968 - July 21, 1968 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, "109 obras de Albright-Knox Art Gallery" (109 Works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery), October 23, 1969 - November 30, 1969 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, "Color and Field 1890-1970", September 15, 1970 - November 01, 1970 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, "Abstract Expressionism: First and Second Generations in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery", January 19, 1972 - February 20, 1972 New York State Museum, Albany, NY, "New York: The State of Art", October 08, 1977 - November 27, 1977 MacKenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, "American Painting 1955 - 1976: Selections from the Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery", September 14, 1979 - October 28, 1979 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, "Abstract Expressionism The Critical Developments", September 19, 1987 - November 29, 1987 Wexner Center for the Arts, University of Ohio, Columbus, OH, "Forces of the Fifties: Selections from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery", May 04, 1996 - August 04, 1996 Centre Cultural de la Fundacio "la Caixa", Barcelona, Spain, "Made in USA 1940-1970 Abstract Expressionism to Pop", January 21, 1999 - April 04, 1999 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, "The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery", November 04, 2011 - March 04, 2012 Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, "Modern Masters: 20th Century Icons from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery", March 02, 2014 - June 08, 2014 Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, "Nothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 1947-1962", February 02, 2017 - April 01, 2017 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston Now", March 02, 2023 - August 27, 2023
Bibliography
Contemporary Art—Acquisitions 1954–1957. Exh. cat. Buffalo: Albright Art Gallery, 1957, cat. no. 8, illus. in b&w
Ashton, Dore. "Art." Arts & Architecture, May 1958, pp. 5, 28–29, mentioned in text p. 28, not illus.
The Museum and Its Friends: Second Loan Exhibition. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1959, unnumbered catalog, not illus.
Breeskin, Adelyn. "Trois Peintres Americains." L'Oeil, July–August 1960, pp. 54–59, illus. in b&w p. 57
XXX Biennale Internazionale D'Arte. Exh. cat. Venice: Biennale de Venice, 1960, cat. no. 4, not illus., listed as "Viaggio"
Ashton, Dore. Philip Guston. New York: Grove, 1960, illus. in color p. 24 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text p. 56
Quattro Artisti Americani: Guston, Hofmann, Kline, Roszak, XXX Biennale Venezia. Exh. cat. Washington, D.C.: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1960, cat. no. 4, not illus.
Alloway, Lawrence. "Book Reviews: Ashton on Guston." Arts Review, July 23–August 12, 1961, pp. 17, 20, mentioned in text p. 17, not illus.
Lichtblau, Charlotte. "Guston Exhibit Takes Spotlight at Guggenheim." Philadelphia Inquirer, May 13, 1962, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 31, illus. in b&w p. 67
Time [Blue Collar Power]. "Philip Guston: To Abstraction and Back." November 9, 1970, pp. 62-63, illus. in color
Color and Field: 1890-1970. Exh. cat. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1970, cat. no. 41, illus. in b&w p. 45
Moritz, Charles, ed. Current Biography, February 1971, pp. 10-13, mentioned in text p. 12, not illus.
Schjeldahl, Peter. "Down Memory Lane to the Fifties." New York Times, February 6, 1972, mentioned in text, not illus.
Contemporary Art 1942–72: Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. New York: Praeger, 1972, illus. in color p. 54 and mentioned in text p. 56
O'Hara, Frank. "Growth and Guston." In Art Chronicles 1954–1966. New York: George Braziller, 1975, pp. 134-141, mentioned in text p. 138, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 110
New York, the State of art. Exh. cat. Albany: New York State Museum, 1977, illus. in b&w p. 47, cat. no. 520 in checklist
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, mentioned in text p. 35, not illus.
Abstract Expressionism The Critical Developments. Exh. cat. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1987, cat. no. 17, illus. in color p. 183
Zaller, Robert. "Philip Guston and the Crisis of the Image." Critical Inquiry 14, no. 1 (1987): pp. 69–94, mentioned in text p. 79, not illus.
Philip Guston, Opere Su Carta 1933–1980. Exh. cat. Milan: Electa, 1989, illus. in b&w p. 51
Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 110
Between Art and Life: Vom Abstrakten Expressionismus zur Pop Art. Exh. cat. Frankfurt am Main: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1999, illus. in color p. 80
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, mentioned in text p. 47 (Michael Auping essay), not illus.
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, mentioned in text p. 47, not illus.
The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Exh. cat. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2011, plate 28, illus. in color pp. 117 and 247
Romm, Jake. "This Exciting Exhibition Will Have You Hearing Sculptures." Forward, March 15, 2017. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Nothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 1947–1962. Exh. cat. New York: Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color p. 69
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text pp. 67 and 134, not illus.
Schwendener, Martha. "Why Philip Guston Can Still Provoke Such Furor, and Passion." The New York Times, October 2, 2020. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Schwendener, Martha. "Why Philip Guston Still Provokes a Furor." The New York Times, October 3, 2020, p. C5, mentioned in text, not illus.
Cooper, Harry, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, and Kate Nesin. Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020, illus. in color Plate 42 p. 62
Heardman, Adam. "Sense and Sensationalism: Is There More to Philip Guston than Controversy?" Elephant (London), April 17, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
McDonald, John. "Why Philip Guston's work is still causing headaches for galleries." Sydney Morning Herald, May 26, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
D'Souza, Aruna. "Where's the Controversy in 'Philip Guston Now'?" New York Times, July 19, 2023. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
D'Souza, Aruna. "A Show Confronts Evil, Yet the Friction Lingers." New York Times, July 20, 2023, pp. C1, C6, illus. in color and mentioned in text p. C6
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