Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné
Title
Alchemist
Date
1960
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
61 x 67⅜ in.154.9 x 171.1 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "ALCHEMIST" [underlined]/ 1960/ 61"X67"
Catalogue No.
P60.024
Provenance
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Mari and James A. Michener, G1968.69
Mari and James A. Michener
Exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "New Paintings by Philip Guston", February 13, 1961 - March 11, 1961
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, "The Sidney Janis Painters", April 08, 1961 - May 07, 1961
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, "Selections from the James A. Michener Foundation Collection", October 04, 1963 - October 27, 1963
Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, "The James A. Michener Foundation Collection", December 08, 1963 - January 12, 1964
National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, "Selected Paintings from the James A. Michener Foundation Collection", February 18, 1964 - March 30, 1964
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, "Recent Paintings from the James A. Michener Foundation", April 13, 1966 - April 30, 1966
Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, Columbus, GA, "Sources for Tomorrow, from the James A. Michener Foundation Collection", January 14, 1967 - February 12, 1967
Wilson Memorial Art Center, Beaumont, TX, "Selections from the Michener Collection", July 06, 1970 - August 08, 1970
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, "The Sixties: A Collection of Paintings from the Michener Collection", September 19, 1971 - October 18, 1971
Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX, "The Michener Collection: American Paintings of the Twentieth Century, inaugural exhibition in the Michener Galleries", November 22, 1972 - March 01, 1973
Michener Galleries, , "Abstract Expressionism: The First and Second Generations, selected from paintings in the Michener Collection", September 23, 1973 - November 25, 1973
Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, TX, "Gorky's Contemporaries", October 12, 1975 - November 23, 1975
Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, TX, "Abstract Expressionists and Imagists: A Retrospective View, An Exhibition of Paintings from the Michener Collection", February 01, 1976 - March 28, 1976
Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX, "Figure & Form 1960 - 1970, Selections from the Michener Collection", May 14, 1978 - August 20, 1978
Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, TX, "A Tribute to Mari and James A. Michener: Selections from the Michener Collection of Twentieth-Century American Art", May 20, 1992 - July 26, 1992
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, "Twentieth Century American Art from the Mari and James A. Michener Collection", July 19, 1993 - January 02, 1994
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, "Painting Explosion, 1958-1963", January 24, 2003 - April 13, 2003
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, "Painting Explosion, 1958-1963: Part II", April 19, 2003 - July 27, 2003
Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Painter", April 26, 2016 - July 30, 2016
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, "The Sidney Janis Painters", April 08, 1961 - May 07, 1961
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, "Selections from the James A. Michener Foundation Collection", October 04, 1963 - October 27, 1963
Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, "The James A. Michener Foundation Collection", December 08, 1963 - January 12, 1964
National Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, "Selected Paintings from the James A. Michener Foundation Collection", February 18, 1964 - March 30, 1964
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, "Recent Paintings from the James A. Michener Foundation", April 13, 1966 - April 30, 1966
Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, Columbus, GA, "Sources for Tomorrow, from the James A. Michener Foundation Collection", January 14, 1967 - February 12, 1967
Wilson Memorial Art Center, Beaumont, TX, "Selections from the Michener Collection", July 06, 1970 - August 08, 1970
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, "The Sixties: A Collection of Paintings from the Michener Collection", September 19, 1971 - October 18, 1971
Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX, "The Michener Collection: American Paintings of the Twentieth Century, inaugural exhibition in the Michener Galleries", November 22, 1972 - March 01, 1973
Michener Galleries, , "Abstract Expressionism: The First and Second Generations, selected from paintings in the Michener Collection", September 23, 1973 - November 25, 1973
Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, TX, "Gorky's Contemporaries", October 12, 1975 - November 23, 1975
Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, TX, "Abstract Expressionists and Imagists: A Retrospective View, An Exhibition of Paintings from the Michener Collection", February 01, 1976 - March 28, 1976
Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX, "Figure & Form 1960 - 1970, Selections from the Michener Collection", May 14, 1978 - August 20, 1978
Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, TX, "A Tribute to Mari and James A. Michener: Selections from the Michener Collection of Twentieth-Century American Art", May 20, 1992 - July 26, 1992
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, "Twentieth Century American Art from the Mari and James A. Michener Collection", July 19, 1993 - January 02, 1994
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, "Painting Explosion, 1958-1963", January 24, 2003 - April 13, 2003
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, "Painting Explosion, 1958-1963: Part II", April 19, 2003 - July 27, 2003
Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Painter", April 26, 2016 - July 30, 2016
Bibliography
Ashton, Dore. "Philip Guston." Metro, 1961, pp. 33–41, no. 9 illus. in b&w p. 40 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text pp. 37 and 38
Albers, Baziotes, Gorky, Gottlieb, Guston, Kline, de Kooning, Motherwell, Pollock, Rothko: The Sidney Janis Painters. Exh. cat. Sarasota: The John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, 1961, cat. no. 12, illus. in b&w (unpaginated)
Hunter, Sam, "Philip Guston," Art International, May 1962, pp. 62–67, illus. in color p. 66 and mentioned in text p. 67
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 78, illus. in color p. 101
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1962, cat. no. 75, illus. in color (no page #)
Lambert, Helen. "Guston Show Heads London Gallery List." New York Herald Tribune (Paris), January 16, 1963, p. 5, mentioned in text as "Alchemist", not illus.
Yates, Peter. "Philip Guston at the County Museum." Arts & Architecture, September 1963, pp. 4–5, 31–32, s "The Alchemist", not illus.
The James A. Michener Foundation Collection. Exh. cat. Allentown: Allentown Art Museum, 1963, no. 40, illus. in color
Hirsch, Richard. "Private Affinities and Public Uses: The Michener Collection." Arts Magazine, May 1966, illus. in color pg. 24
Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 120
Powell III, Earl A. The James A. Michener Collection: Twentieth Century American Painting. Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 1977, illus. p. 145
The University of Texas at Austin Continuing Education Programs. Brochure. Fall 1982, illus. in color on front cover
Inaugural Exhibition of Twentieth-Century American Art. Exh. cat. Essays by Peter F. Blume and Tom Moran. Forward by James A. Michener. Introduction by Linda Constance Buki. Doylestown: James A. Michener Art Center of Bucks County, 1988, illus. in color p. 39
Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 120
Newton, Steven James. Painting, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, illus. in b&w fig. 22. and mentioned in text pp. 128, 130, 131 and 150
Carlozzi, Annette DiMeo, and Kelly Baum, eds. Blanton Museum of Art: American Art Since 1900. Austin: Blanton Museum of Art, 2006, cat. no. 55 illus. in color p. 114
Yareah. "New York Exhibits. Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." April 11, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
NY Arts. "Philip Guston: Painter, 1957–1967 @ Hauser & Wirth New York." April 13, 2016. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Broadway World. "Hauser & Wirth to Display New Philip Guston Exhibit, Today." April 26, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Eckardt, Stephanie. "Philip Guston's Pivotal Moment." W, April 27, 2016. Online, illus. in color
Kinsella, Eileen. "Hauser and Wirth Opens Huge Philip Guston Show Pinpointing 'Pivotal' Decade." artnet News, April 27, 2016. Online, illus. in color
Micchelli, Thomas. "Flesh and Bones: Philip Guston's 'Thingness.'" Hyperallergic, April 30, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Cohen, Alina. "Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth: The Unfreedom of a Blank Canvas and Pushing Back Against Success." Forbes, April 30, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Alexander, Stephen. "Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." Stephen Alexander Journal. Blog. May 1, 2016, illus. in color
Galleries Now. "Philip Guston: Painter, 1957–1967." May 10, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Scobie, Ilka. "Philip Guston's Last Decade of Abstraction Hauser & Wirth NY." Artlyst, May 10, 2016. Online, illus. in color, but mis-captioned
Plagens, Peter. "'Affordable' Art, Powerful Panels and the AbEx Table." Wall Street Journal, May 20, 2016. Online, illus. in color
ArteFuse. "Philip Guston Painter, 1957–1967 at Hauser & Wirth." May 21, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
The New Yorker. [Article title unknown]. May 30, 2016, p. 12, illus. in color p. 12
Pardee, Hearne. "Roundtable: Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." Artcritical, June 9, 2016. Online, illus. in color
Martin, Alison. "Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." Artery NYC, July 8, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Gieskes, Mette. "I is an Other: Philip Guston's Imagined Incarnations of God and Klansmen." In Example or Alter Ego? Aspects of the Portrait Historie in Western Art from Antiquity to the Present. Edited by Volker Manuth, Rudie van Leeuwen, and Jos Koldeweij. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016, mentioned in text as "The Alchemist" p. 294, not illus.
Philip Guston: Painter 1957–1967. Exh. cat. New York: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. in color p. 63
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color No. 72 p. 85 and mentioned in text pp. 75 and 307
Albers, Baziotes, Gorky, Gottlieb, Guston, Kline, de Kooning, Motherwell, Pollock, Rothko: The Sidney Janis Painters. Exh. cat. Sarasota: The John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, 1961, cat. no. 12, illus. in b&w (unpaginated)
Hunter, Sam, "Philip Guston," Art International, May 1962, pp. 62–67, illus. in color p. 66 and mentioned in text p. 67
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 78, illus. in color p. 101
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1962, cat. no. 75, illus. in color (no page #)
Lambert, Helen. "Guston Show Heads London Gallery List." New York Herald Tribune (Paris), January 16, 1963, p. 5, mentioned in text as "Alchemist", not illus.
Yates, Peter. "Philip Guston at the County Museum." Arts & Architecture, September 1963, pp. 4–5, 31–32, s "The Alchemist", not illus.
The James A. Michener Foundation Collection. Exh. cat. Allentown: Allentown Art Museum, 1963, no. 40, illus. in color
Hirsch, Richard. "Private Affinities and Public Uses: The Michener Collection." Arts Magazine, May 1966, illus. in color pg. 24
Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 120
Powell III, Earl A. The James A. Michener Collection: Twentieth Century American Painting. Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 1977, illus. p. 145
The University of Texas at Austin Continuing Education Programs. Brochure. Fall 1982, illus. in color on front cover
Inaugural Exhibition of Twentieth-Century American Art. Exh. cat. Essays by Peter F. Blume and Tom Moran. Forward by James A. Michener. Introduction by Linda Constance Buki. Doylestown: James A. Michener Art Center of Bucks County, 1988, illus. in color p. 39
Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 120
Newton, Steven James. Painting, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, illus. in b&w fig. 22. and mentioned in text pp. 128, 130, 131 and 150
Carlozzi, Annette DiMeo, and Kelly Baum, eds. Blanton Museum of Art: American Art Since 1900. Austin: Blanton Museum of Art, 2006, cat. no. 55 illus. in color p. 114
Yareah. "New York Exhibits. Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." April 11, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
NY Arts. "Philip Guston: Painter, 1957–1967 @ Hauser & Wirth New York." April 13, 2016. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Broadway World. "Hauser & Wirth to Display New Philip Guston Exhibit, Today." April 26, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Eckardt, Stephanie. "Philip Guston's Pivotal Moment." W, April 27, 2016. Online, illus. in color
Kinsella, Eileen. "Hauser and Wirth Opens Huge Philip Guston Show Pinpointing 'Pivotal' Decade." artnet News, April 27, 2016. Online, illus. in color
Micchelli, Thomas. "Flesh and Bones: Philip Guston's 'Thingness.'" Hyperallergic, April 30, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Cohen, Alina. "Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth: The Unfreedom of a Blank Canvas and Pushing Back Against Success." Forbes, April 30, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Alexander, Stephen. "Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." Stephen Alexander Journal. Blog. May 1, 2016, illus. in color
Galleries Now. "Philip Guston: Painter, 1957–1967." May 10, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Scobie, Ilka. "Philip Guston's Last Decade of Abstraction Hauser & Wirth NY." Artlyst, May 10, 2016. Online, illus. in color, but mis-captioned
Plagens, Peter. "'Affordable' Art, Powerful Panels and the AbEx Table." Wall Street Journal, May 20, 2016. Online, illus. in color
ArteFuse. "Philip Guston Painter, 1957–1967 at Hauser & Wirth." May 21, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
The New Yorker. [Article title unknown]. May 30, 2016, p. 12, illus. in color p. 12
Pardee, Hearne. "Roundtable: Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." Artcritical, June 9, 2016. Online, illus. in color
Martin, Alison. "Philip Guston at Hauser & Wirth." Artery NYC, July 8, 2016. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Gieskes, Mette. "I is an Other: Philip Guston's Imagined Incarnations of God and Klansmen." In Example or Alter Ego? Aspects of the Portrait Historie in Western Art from Antiquity to the Present. Edited by Volker Manuth, Rudie van Leeuwen, and Jos Koldeweij. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016, mentioned in text as "The Alchemist" p. 294, not illus.
Philip Guston: Painter 1957–1967. Exh. cat. New York: Hauser & Wirth, 2016, illus. in color p. 63
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color No. 72 p. 85 and mentioned in text pp. 75 and 307
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Title
Alchemist
Date
1960
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
61 × 67⅜ in. (154.9 × 171.1 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "ALCHEMIST" [underlined]/ 1960/ 61"X67"
Catalogue Number
P60.024
Provenance
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Mari and James A. Michener, G1968.69
Mari and James A. Michener
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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