Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné
Title
Native's Return
Date
1957
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
64⅞ x 75⅞ in.164.8 x 192.7 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston
Catalogue No.
P57.027
Provenance
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Acquired 1958
Exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", February 24, 1958 - March 22, 1958
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico, "Primera Bienal Interamericana de Pintura Y Grabado" (First Biennial Inter-American Exhibition of Paintings and Prints), June 06, 1958 - August 20, 1958
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, "V Bienal, Estados Unidos, 1959", September 21, 1959 - December 31, 1959
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962
Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, "Paintings from The Phillips Collection", February 07, 1970 - March 01, 1970
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, "Impressionism and the Modern Vision: Master Paintings from the Phillips Collection", July 04, 1981 - November 01, 1981
IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY, "Paintings and Drawing from The Phillips Collection", December 09, 1983 - January 21, 1984
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, "Old Masters/New Visions: El Greco to Rothko from the Phillips Collection", October 03, 1987 - December 06, 1987
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", September 02, 1999 - November 01, 1999
MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy, "Masterworks of American Art in The Phillips Collection 2010-2013", June 05, 2010 - September 12, 2010
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., "Made in the U.S.A.: American Masters from The Phillips Collection, 1850-1970", March 01, 2014 - August 31, 2014
Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany, "From Hopper to Rothko: America's Road to Modern Art", June 17, 2017 - October 03, 2017
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL, "From Homer to Hopper: American Art from The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC", February 1, 2020 - March 14, 2020 (exhibition closed early due to COVID-19)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston Now", March 02, 2023 - August 27, 2023
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico, "Primera Bienal Interamericana de Pintura Y Grabado" (First Biennial Inter-American Exhibition of Paintings and Prints), June 06, 1958 - August 20, 1958
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, "V Bienal, Estados Unidos, 1959", September 21, 1959 - December 31, 1959
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962
Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, "Paintings from The Phillips Collection", February 07, 1970 - March 01, 1970
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, "Impressionism and the Modern Vision: Master Paintings from the Phillips Collection", July 04, 1981 - November 01, 1981
IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY, "Paintings and Drawing from The Phillips Collection", December 09, 1983 - January 21, 1984
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, "Old Masters/New Visions: El Greco to Rothko from the Phillips Collection", October 03, 1987 - December 06, 1987
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", September 02, 1999 - November 01, 1999
MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy, "Masterworks of American Art in The Phillips Collection 2010-2013", June 05, 2010 - September 12, 2010
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., "Made in the U.S.A.: American Masters from The Phillips Collection, 1850-1970", March 01, 2014 - August 31, 2014
Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany, "From Hopper to Rothko: America's Road to Modern Art", June 17, 2017 - October 03, 2017
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL, "From Homer to Hopper: American Art from The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC", February 1, 2020 - March 14, 2020 (exhibition closed early due to COVID-19)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston Now", March 02, 2023 - August 27, 2023
Bibliography
Goosen, E. C. "The End of Winter in New York." Art International, March–April 1958, pp. 37–39, illus. in b&w p. 44
W.R.D. "In the Galleries: Philip Guston." Arts. April 1958, p. 60, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
Ashton, Dore. "Art." Arts & Architecture, May 1958, pp. 5, 28–29, mentioned in text p. 28, not illus.
Primera Bienal Interamericana de Pintura y Grabado. Exh. cat. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Bella Artes, Secretaria de Educación Pública, 1958, unnumbered catalog, not illus.
Schiff, Bennett. [Article title unknown]. New York Post, 1958, mentioned in text, not illus.
A V Bienal, Estados Unidos, 1959. Exh. cat. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 1959, cat. no. 17, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. Philip Guston. New York: Grove, 1960, illus. in b&w p. 39 (unpaginated) and discussed p. 56
Hunter, Sam, "Philip Guston," Art International, May 1962, pp. 62–67, mentioned in text p. 67, not illus.
Kozloff, Max. "Art." Nation, May 19, 1962, pp. 453–55, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1962, cat. no. 40, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 42, illus. in b&w p. 79
Seldis, Henry J. "Giant Retrospective of Philip Guston's Works." Los Angeles Sunday Times, June 9, 1963, section Calendar, p. C13, illus. in b&w p. 13
Fine Art Reproductions: Old and Modern Masters. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1971, illus. in color p. 576A
Hunter, Sam. American Art of the 20th Century. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1973, illus. in b&w Plate 437 p. 241
Hasbro 1975. [toy catalog] Pawtucket: Hasbro Industries, Inc., 1975, detail illus. in color on front and back covers
Diamonstein, Barbaralee, ed. The Art World: A Seventy-Five Treasury of ARTnews. New York: Rizzoli, 1977, illus. in b&w p. 295
Selz, Peter. Art in Our Times: A Pictorial History 1890–1980. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981, illus. in b&w p. 426, plate no. 1164
Old Masters - New Visions: El Greco to Rothko from the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. Exh. cat. Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1987, illus. in color p. 79
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.
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.
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. 15, illus. in color p. 46
Anfam, David. "Bonn, Philip Guston." Burlington Magazine, December 1999, pp. 767-78, Fig. 71 illus. in color p. 768 and mentioned in text p. 767
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. 79, shown in Ottawa
Beckett, Sister Wendy. Sister Wendy's 1000 Masterpieces: Sister Wendy Beckett's Selection of the Greatest Paintings in Western Art. London: Dorling Kindersley, 1999, illus. in color p. 198, titled "The Native's Return"
Ottinger, Didier, and Philip Roth. Philip Guston: Peintures 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2000, illus. in color p. 57
Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, illus. in color p. 79 and mentioned in text p. 37
Kastein, Albrecht, ed. Philip Guston. Texts by Albrecht Kastein, Jutta Koether, Roberto Ohrt, and Willam Corbett. Exh. cat. Cologne: BQ, 2001, illus. in b&w p. 43
Made in USA: Arte Americano de la Phillips Collection. Exh. cat. Madrid: Fundación Mapfre, 2010, illus. in color p. 186
Frank, Susan Behrends, and Eliza E. Rathbone. Master Paintings from the Phillips Collection. Washington D.C.: The Phillips Collection, 2011, illus. in color p. 99
Frank, Susan Behrends. Made in the U.S.A.: American Art from The Phillips Collection. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014, illus. in color p. 216
Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. New York: American Academy in Rome; New York Review of Books, 2014, mentioned in text p. 130, not illus.
Westheider, Ortrud, and Michael Philipp, eds. From Hopper to Rothko: America's Road to Modern Art. Exh. cat. Potsdam: Museum Barberini, 2017, cat. no. 53, illus. in color p. 193
Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong Issue no. 1: Philip Guston. Exh. guide. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2018, illus. in color p. 13 and mentioned in text p. 12
Burnett, Craig. "'Philip Guston's life traced that of modern art itself'" Apollo (London), May 12, 2020. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Schwendener, Martha. "Why Philip Guston Can Still Provoke Such Furor, and Passion." The New York Times, October 2, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Schwendener, Martha. "Why Philip Guston Still Provokes a Furor." The New York Times, October 3, 2020, p. C5, mentioned in text, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 60 illus. in color p. 77 and mentioned in text p. 75
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 43 p. 64
Schwabsky, Barry. "Philip Guston's Peculiar History Lesson." Nation, April 12, 2021. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Heardman, Adam. "Sense and Sensationalism: Is There More to Philip Guston than Controversy?" Elephant (London), April 17, 2022. Online, mentioned in text incorrectly as "Nature's Return", not illus.
Michelman, Elizabeth. "Philip Guston's True Colors at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." Artscope, August 9, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Goodman, Jonathan. "The Guston Foundation: The Maintenance of Philip Guston's Legacy." Brooklyn Rail, October 2022. Online., mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston. Lyon: FAGE éditions, 2022, illus. in color p. 19
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.
Searle, Adrian. "'What would it be like to be evil?' Controversial Philip Guston show ridicules the virus-like KKK." Guardian, October 3, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Searle, Adrian. "'What would it be like to be evil?'" Guardian, October 4, 2023, p. 8, mentioned in text, not illus.
Holman, Matthew. "The Big Review: Philip Guston: This long-delayed restrospective is a revelatory tour de force that charts the twists and turns of a 50-year career." Art Newspaper, November 2023, p. 62, mentioned in text, not illus.
Holman, Matthew. "The Big Review: Philip Guston at Tate Modern ★★★★★." Art Newspaper, November 2, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Holman, Matthew. "Guston: antirazzista e contro la guerra, condanna i criminali umanizzandoli." Il Giornale Dell'Arte, December 22, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Duponchelle, Valérie. "Philip Guston, le peintre qui met du mouvement dans l'abstraction." Le Figaro (Paris), January 18, 2024, mentioned in text, not illus.
W.R.D. "In the Galleries: Philip Guston." Arts. April 1958, p. 60, illus. in b&w and mentioned in text
Ashton, Dore. "Art." Arts & Architecture, May 1958, pp. 5, 28–29, mentioned in text p. 28, not illus.
Primera Bienal Interamericana de Pintura y Grabado. Exh. cat. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Bella Artes, Secretaria de Educación Pública, 1958, unnumbered catalog, not illus.
Schiff, Bennett. [Article title unknown]. New York Post, 1958, mentioned in text, not illus.
A V Bienal, Estados Unidos, 1959. Exh. cat. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 1959, cat. no. 17, not illus.
Ashton, Dore. Philip Guston. New York: Grove, 1960, illus. in b&w p. 39 (unpaginated) and discussed p. 56
Hunter, Sam, "Philip Guston," Art International, May 1962, pp. 62–67, mentioned in text p. 67, not illus.
Kozloff, Max. "Art." Nation, May 19, 1962, pp. 453–55, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1962, cat. no. 40, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 42, illus. in b&w p. 79
Seldis, Henry J. "Giant Retrospective of Philip Guston's Works." Los Angeles Sunday Times, June 9, 1963, section Calendar, p. C13, illus. in b&w p. 13
Fine Art Reproductions: Old and Modern Masters. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1971, illus. in color p. 576A
Hunter, Sam. American Art of the 20th Century. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1973, illus. in b&w Plate 437 p. 241
Hasbro 1975. [toy catalog] Pawtucket: Hasbro Industries, Inc., 1975, detail illus. in color on front and back covers
Diamonstein, Barbaralee, ed. The Art World: A Seventy-Five Treasury of ARTnews. New York: Rizzoli, 1977, illus. in b&w p. 295
Selz, Peter. Art in Our Times: A Pictorial History 1890–1980. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981, illus. in b&w p. 426, plate no. 1164
Old Masters - New Visions: El Greco to Rothko from the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. Exh. cat. Canberra: Australian National Gallery, 1987, illus. in color p. 79
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.
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.
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. 15, illus. in color p. 46
Anfam, David. "Bonn, Philip Guston." Burlington Magazine, December 1999, pp. 767-78, Fig. 71 illus. in color p. 768 and mentioned in text p. 767
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. 79, shown in Ottawa
Beckett, Sister Wendy. Sister Wendy's 1000 Masterpieces: Sister Wendy Beckett's Selection of the Greatest Paintings in Western Art. London: Dorling Kindersley, 1999, illus. in color p. 198, titled "The Native's Return"
Ottinger, Didier, and Philip Roth. Philip Guston: Peintures 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2000, illus. in color p. 57
Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, illus. in color p. 79 and mentioned in text p. 37
Kastein, Albrecht, ed. Philip Guston. Texts by Albrecht Kastein, Jutta Koether, Roberto Ohrt, and Willam Corbett. Exh. cat. Cologne: BQ, 2001, illus. in b&w p. 43
Made in USA: Arte Americano de la Phillips Collection. Exh. cat. Madrid: Fundación Mapfre, 2010, illus. in color p. 186
Frank, Susan Behrends, and Eliza E. Rathbone. Master Paintings from the Phillips Collection. Washington D.C.: The Phillips Collection, 2011, illus. in color p. 99
Frank, Susan Behrends. Made in the U.S.A.: American Art from The Phillips Collection. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014, illus. in color p. 216
Miller, Peter Benson, ed. Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. New York: American Academy in Rome; New York Review of Books, 2014, mentioned in text p. 130, not illus.
Westheider, Ortrud, and Michael Philipp, eds. From Hopper to Rothko: America's Road to Modern Art. Exh. cat. Potsdam: Museum Barberini, 2017, cat. no. 53, illus. in color p. 193
Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong Issue no. 1: Philip Guston. Exh. guide. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2018, illus. in color p. 13 and mentioned in text p. 12
Burnett, Craig. "'Philip Guston's life traced that of modern art itself'" Apollo (London), May 12, 2020. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Schwendener, Martha. "Why Philip Guston Can Still Provoke Such Furor, and Passion." The New York Times, October 2, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Schwendener, Martha. "Why Philip Guston Still Provokes a Furor." The New York Times, October 3, 2020, p. C5, mentioned in text, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 60 illus. in color p. 77 and mentioned in text p. 75
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 43 p. 64
Schwabsky, Barry. "Philip Guston's Peculiar History Lesson." Nation, April 12, 2021. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Heardman, Adam. "Sense and Sensationalism: Is There More to Philip Guston than Controversy?" Elephant (London), April 17, 2022. Online, mentioned in text incorrectly as "Nature's Return", not illus.
Michelman, Elizabeth. "Philip Guston's True Colors at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston." Artscope, August 9, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Goodman, Jonathan. "The Guston Foundation: The Maintenance of Philip Guston's Legacy." Brooklyn Rail, October 2022. Online., mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston. Lyon: FAGE éditions, 2022, illus. in color p. 19
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.
Searle, Adrian. "'What would it be like to be evil?' Controversial Philip Guston show ridicules the virus-like KKK." Guardian, October 3, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Searle, Adrian. "'What would it be like to be evil?'" Guardian, October 4, 2023, p. 8, mentioned in text, not illus.
Holman, Matthew. "The Big Review: Philip Guston: This long-delayed restrospective is a revelatory tour de force that charts the twists and turns of a 50-year career." Art Newspaper, November 2023, p. 62, mentioned in text, not illus.
Holman, Matthew. "The Big Review: Philip Guston at Tate Modern ★★★★★." Art Newspaper, November 2, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Holman, Matthew. "Guston: antirazzista e contro la guerra, condanna i criminali umanizzandoli." Il Giornale Dell'Arte, December 22, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Duponchelle, Valérie. "Philip Guston, le peintre qui met du mouvement dans l'abstraction." Le Figaro (Paris), January 18, 2024, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Title
Native's Return
Date
1957
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
64⅞ × 75⅞ in. (164.8 × 192.7 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston
Catalogue Number
P57.027
Provenance
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Acquired 1958
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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