Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné

Title
The Air Training Program (Advanced Pilot Training)
Date
1943
Medium
Gouache on paper
Dimensions
30 x 23¾ in.76.2 x 60.3 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue No.
P43.010
Provenance
Private Collection
Exhibitions
The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL, "World at Work, 1930-1955, Twenty-Five Years of Art for Fortune", May 12, 1955 - June 15, 1955
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "The Drawings of Philip Guston", September 07, 1988 - November 01, 1988
Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY, "Philip Guston: Brave New World 1943: Drawings & Gouaches Commissioned During World War II", July 12, 1997 - September 08, 1997
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, "World at Work, 1930-1955, Twenty-Five Years of Art for Fortune", July 16, 1955 - September 05, 1955
Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, "World at Work, 1930-1955, Twenty-Five Years of Art for Fortune", September 15, 1955 - October 15, 1955
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "World at Work, 1930-1955, Twenty-Five Years of Art for Fortune", October 26, 1955 - November 26, 1955
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, "World at Work, 1930-1955, Twenty-Five Years of Art for Fortune", December 11, 1955 - January 08, 1956
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, "World at Work, 1930-1955, Twenty-Five Years of Art for Fortune", January 18, 1956 - February 15, 1956
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, "World at Work, 1930-1955, Twenty-Five Years of Art for Fortune", March 06, 1956 - April 01, 1956
City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, "World at Work, 1930-1955, Twenty-Five Years of Art for Fortune", May 15, 1956 - June 15, 1956
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "The Drawings of Philip Guston", September 07, 1988 - November 01, 1988
Museum Overholland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, "Philip Guston" (The Drawings of Philip Guston), January 14, 1989 - March 12, 1989
Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain, "Dibuixos: Philip Guston", March 30, 1989 - May 14, 1989
Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, England, "The Drawings of Philip Guston", May 28, 1989 - July 23, 1989
The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, "The Drawings of Philip Guston", August 09, 1989 - September 16, 1989
Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY, "Philip Guston: Brave New World 1943: Drawings & Gouaches Commissioned During World War II", July 12, 1997 - September 08, 1997
McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Brave New World 1943: Drawings & Gouaches Commissioned During World War II", September 12, 1997 - October 04, 1997
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
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, "The Art of Philip Guston: 1913-1980", January 24, 2004 - April 12, 2004
Bibliography
Fortune. "The Air Training Program." February 1944, pp. 146–52, 174, illus. in color p. 146 (unpaginated)
Iowa City Press-Citizen. "Art Exhibition to Be Shown Here." February 29, 1944, p. 2, illus. in b&w, listed as "Advanced Pilot Training"
World at Work: Twenty-Five Years of Art for Fortune 1930–1955. Exh. cat. New York: Time, 1955, cat. no. 25, illus. in color, Lent by the Midtown Galleries, listed as "Frontspiece for a wartime article on "The Air Training Program" (February 1944)
Flam, Jack. "The Gallery: Philip Guston." Wall Street Journal, October 5, 1988, mentioned in text, not illus.
Dabrowski, Magdalena. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988, cat. no. 8, illus. in color p. 57, listed as "The Air Training Program"
Dabrowski, Magdalena. Dibuixos Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Barcelona: Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, 1989, cat. no. 8 illus. in color p. 77
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 8, unpaginated (but would be p. 105)
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 8 (unpaginated, but would be p. 105)
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 22 and mentioned in text p. 14
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, illus. in color no. 28 (unpaginated)
Philip Guston: The Irony of History. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2025, illus. no. 18, illus. in color p. 31 (illus. of pp. 146-147 of Fortune magazine layout) and mentioned in text pp. 26 and 199
Philip Guston: L'Ironie de L'Histoire. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2025, illus. no. 18, illus. in color p. 31 (illus. of pp. 146-147 of Fortune magazine layout) and mentioned in text pp. 26 and 199
Iowa City Press-Citizen. "Art Exhibition to Be Shown Here." February 29, 1944, p. 2, illus. in b&w, listed as "Advanced Pilot Training"
World at Work: Twenty-Five Years of Art for Fortune 1930–1955. Exh. cat. New York: Time, 1955, cat. no. 25, illus. in color, Lent by the Midtown Galleries, listed as "Frontspiece for a wartime article on "The Air Training Program" (February 1944)
Flam, Jack. "The Gallery: Philip Guston." Wall Street Journal, October 5, 1988, mentioned in text, not illus.
Dabrowski, Magdalena. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988, cat. no. 8, illus. in color p. 57, listed as "The Air Training Program"
Dabrowski, Magdalena. Dibuixos Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Barcelona: Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, 1989, cat. no. 8 illus. in color p. 77
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 8, unpaginated (but would be p. 105)
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. Hardcover ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 8 (unpaginated, but would be p. 105)
Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 22 and mentioned in text p. 14
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, illus. in color no. 28 (unpaginated)
Philip Guston: The Irony of History. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2025, illus. no. 18, illus. in color p. 31 (illus. of pp. 146-147 of Fortune magazine layout) and mentioned in text pp. 26 and 199
Philip Guston: L'Ironie de L'Histoire. Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2025, illus. no. 18, illus. in color p. 31 (illus. of pp. 146-147 of Fortune magazine layout) and mentioned in text pp. 26 and 199
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Title
The Air Training Program (Advanced Pilot Training)
Date
1943
Medium
Gouache on paper
Dimensions
30 × 23¾ in. (76.2 × 60.3 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue Number
P43.010
Provenance
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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