Philip Guston
Catalogue Raisonné

Title
Air II
Date
1965
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
69⅛ x 78⅛ in.175.6 x 198.4 cm
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue No.
P65.002
Provenance
Yale University Art Gallery, Bequest of Musa Guston
Exhibitions
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, Recent Paintings and Drawings", January 12, 1966 - February 13, 1966
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, "Philip Guston, A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945-1965", February 27, 1966 - March 27, 1966
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, "L'Art Vivant aux Etats-Unis", July 16, 1970 - September 30, 1970
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, "Philip Guston: A New Alphabet, The Late Transition", April 25, 2000 - July 30, 2000
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, "The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection", September 04, 2015 - January 03, 2016
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, "Midcentury Abstraction: A Closer Look", February 25, 2022 - June 26, 2022
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, "Philip Guston, A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945-1965", February 27, 1966 - March 27, 1966
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, "L'Art Vivant aux Etats-Unis", July 16, 1970 - September 30, 1970
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989
Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", May 25, 1989 - July 16, 1989
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", September 09, 1989 - October 22, 1989
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, "Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting", November 19, 1989 - January 14, 1990
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, "Philip Guston: A New Alphabet, The Late Transition", April 25, 2000 - July 30, 2000
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, "Philip Guston: A New Alphabet, The Late Transition", September 23, 2000 - February 04, 2001
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, "The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection", September 04, 2015 - January 03, 2016
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, "Midcentury Abstraction: A Closer Look", February 25, 2022 - June 26, 2022
Bibliography
Guston, Philip, Harold Rosenberg, and Jewish Museum. Philip Guston: Recent Paintings and Drawings. Introduction by Sam Hunter. Exh. cat. New York: Jewish Museum, 1965, cat. no. 29, illus. in b&w
Philip Guston: A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945–1965. Exh. brochure. Waltham: The Poses Institute of Fine Arts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1966, cat. no. 27
L'Art Vivant aux Etats-Unis. Exh. cat. Paris: Fondation Maeght, 1970, illus. in b&w p. 39
Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 129
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in b&w no. 39 p. 45
Serraller, F. Calvo. "Abierta en Madrid una retrospectiva de Guston: En Centro Reina Sofia expone 70 obras del artista que paso del expresionismo abstracto a la figuracion." El País (Madrid), March 2, 1989. Print, mentioned in text, not illus.
Degener, Patricia. "Retrospective of Philip Guston's Paintings Shows 'A Life Lived.'" St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 10, 1989, p. 4C, mentioned in text, 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. 22, illus. in color p. 65, (incorrectly titled as "The Year, 1964" in catalogue)
Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 129
Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit. Exh. cat. Bremen: Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, 1996, mentioned in text p. 94, not illus.
McQuaid, Cate. "Guston's Art is Darkness Come to Light." Boston Globe, October 28, 2000, p. F5, mentioned in text, not illus.
Weber, Joanna, Harry Cooper, and Laura Greengold. Philip Guston A New Alphabet: The Late Transition. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2000, illus. in color Plate 7
Reed, David. "Soul-Beating." Art Journal 69, no. 4 (2010): pp. 96–107, mentioned in text p. 97, not illus.
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, illus. in b&w p. 48, mentioned in text p. 50
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. 91, not illus.
The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2015, illus. in color as part of an installation photo (no page #)
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text p. 145, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color No. 88 p. 96 and mentioned in text p. 96
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, illus. in color no. 78 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text p. 110
Philip Guston: A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945–1965. Exh. brochure. Waltham: The Poses Institute of Fine Arts, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1966, cat. no. 27
L'Art Vivant aux Etats-Unis. Exh. cat. Paris: Fondation Maeght, 1970, illus. in b&w p. 39
Ashton, Dore. Yes, but... A Critical Study of Philip Guston. New York: Viking, 1976, illus. in b&w p. 129
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in b&w no. 39 p. 45
Serraller, F. Calvo. "Abierta en Madrid una retrospectiva de Guston: En Centro Reina Sofia expone 70 obras del artista que paso del expresionismo abstracto a la figuracion." El País (Madrid), March 2, 1989. Print, mentioned in text, not illus.
Degener, Patricia. "Retrospective of Philip Guston's Paintings Shows 'A Life Lived.'" St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 10, 1989, p. 4C, mentioned in text, 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. 22, illus. in color p. 65, (incorrectly titled as "The Year, 1964" in catalogue)
Ashton, Dore. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, illus. in b&w p. 129
Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit. Exh. cat. Bremen: Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, 1996, mentioned in text p. 94, not illus.
McQuaid, Cate. "Guston's Art is Darkness Come to Light." Boston Globe, October 28, 2000, p. F5, mentioned in text, not illus.
Weber, Joanna, Harry Cooper, and Laura Greengold. Philip Guston A New Alphabet: The Late Transition. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2000, illus. in color Plate 7
Reed, David. "Soul-Beating." Art Journal 69, no. 4 (2010): pp. 96–107, mentioned in text p. 97, not illus.
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, illus. in b&w p. 48, mentioned in text p. 50
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. 91, not illus.
The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2015, illus. in color as part of an installation photo (no page #)
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, mentioned in text p. 145, not illus.
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color No. 88 p. 96 and mentioned in text p. 96
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, illus. in color no. 78 (unpaginated) and mentioned in text p. 110
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Title
Air II
Date
1965
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
69⅛ × 78⅛ in. (175.6 × 198.4 cm)
Inscription
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Catalogue Number
P65.002
Provenance
Yale University Art Gallery, Bequest of Musa Guston
Exhibitions
Bibliography
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