Signed and dated front lower right: Philip Guston '56
Catalogue No.
P56.002
Provenance
The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Doris and Donald Fisher
Auction: Christie's, New York, Post-War and Contemporary Art (Evening Sale), May 11, 2005, Lot 31
Ruth and Harvey Kaplan
Exhibitions
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, "American Paintings 1945-1957", June 18, 1957 - September 01, 1957 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", February 24, 1958 - March 22, 1958 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "New York and Paris - Paintings in the 50s", January 16, 1959 - February 08, 1959 Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Tenth Anniversary Loan Exhibition Paintings and Sculpture purchased from this gallery by residents of the Chicago area", October 01, 1959 - October 17, 1959 The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, "63rd American Exhibition, Paintings, Sculpture", December 02, 1959 - January 31, 1960 University Art Museum of The University of Texas, Austin, TX, "Drawings &", February 06, 1966 - March 15, 1966 The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, "27th Annual Exhibition by The Society for Contemporary American Art", April 11, 1967 - May 21, 1967 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection", June 25, 2010 - September 19, 2010
Bibliography
American Paintings 1945–1957. Exh. cat. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1957, cat. no. 60, not illus.
Chicago Tribune. "Artist Wins $2,000 with Iron Sculpture." December 1, 1959.
The New York Times. "High Art Award Goes to Noguchi: Sculptor Wins Logan Medal as First Prize at 63d Exhibition in Chicago." December 2, 1959, p. 53, mentioned in text, not illus.
Hutchinson, Louise. "A Timid Soul's Ego Gets Badly Bruised by Prize Art Works." Chicago Tribune, December 6, 1959, mentioned in text, not illus.
63rd American Exhibition: Paintings and Sculpture. Exh. cat. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1959, cat. no. 46, not illus.
Drawings & An Exhibition at The University Art Museum of The University of Texas. Exh. cat. Austin: University of Texas, 1966, unnumbered catalog, not illus.
Cohen, George M. A History of American Art. New York: Dell Publishing, 1971, mentioned in text p. 236, not illus.
Gold, Amy. "A Life Well Lived, the Ruth and Harvey Kaplan Collection." Christie's Magazine, May/June 2005, illus. in color pg. 43
MacAdam, Barbara. "Guston Low and High." Art & Auction, February 2006, pp. 112–14, illus. in color p. 114
Sussman, Matt. "Dizzy dazzle: The enormous and impressive Fisher Collection finds a public home at SFMOMA." San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 7-13, 2010, p. 29, mentioned in text, not illus.
Cooper, Harry. "Like Clockwork." Artforum, October 2010, illus. in color p. 58
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection. Exh. cat. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2010, illus. in color plate 8
The Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2016, illus. in color p. 50
Mcllhagga, Samuel. "Philip Guston's Controversial Embrace of Figuration Still Shapes His Market." Artsy, November 3, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
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