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P69.123

City Limits, 1969
Oil on canvas
77 x 103¼ in.
195.6 x 262.3 cm
Signed front lower center: Philip Guston
Provenance
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Musa Guston
Exhibitions
Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Recent Paintings", October 17, 1970 - November 07, 1970 
Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, "New Paintings, Philip Guston", November 14, 1970 - December 13, 1970 
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, "Philip Guston: Recent Work", July 31, 1971 - October 03, 1971 
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", August 17, 1984 - September 16, 1984  Travelled to:
The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", September 26, 1984 - October 28, 1984
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, "Philip Guston: The Late Works", November 07, 1984 - December 30, 1984
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Works from the Collection", May 28, 1992 - July 26, 1992 
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Selections from the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture", February 09, 1994 - January 04, 1995
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Selections from the Permanent Collection, Painting and Sculpture", February 16, 1996 - June 28, 1996
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Selections from the Permanent Collection, Painting and Sculpture", September 30, 1996 - October 22, 1996
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Selections from the Permanent Collection, Painting and Sculpture", June 03, 1997 - September 12, 1997
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Modern Art despite Modernism", March 16, 2000 - July 26, 2000
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "MoMA2000: Open Ends (1960-2000)", November 01, 2000 - January 30, 2001 Travelled to:
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, "The Path of Resistance: MoMA Meets Moderna 1960-2000, May 19, 2001 - August 26, 2001
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum of Modern Art, New York", June 29, 2002 - September 06, 2004
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings and Sculptures", September 21, 2003 - January 04, 2004 Travelled to:
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany, "Das MoMA in Berlin: Meisterwerke aus dem Museum of Modern Art, New York", February 20, 2004 - September 19, 2004
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, "Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties", March 07, 2014 - July 06, 2014 Travelled to:
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH, "Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties", August 30, 2014 - December 14, 2014
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, "Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties", February 07, 2015 - May 10, 2015
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, "Art of Rebellion: Black Art of the Civil Rights Movement", July 23, 2017 - October 22, 2017
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, "Philip Guston Now", May 01, 2022 - September 11, 2022  Travelled to:
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX, "Philip Guston Now", October 23, 2022 - January 15, 2023
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston Now", March 02, 2023 - August 27, 2023
Tate Modern, London, England, "Philip Guston", October 05, 2023 - February 25, 2024
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Zaller, Robert. "The Abandoned Studio: Philip Guston's Gnostic Testament." Boulevard 20, no. 2-3 (2005): pp. 100–18, mentioned in text p. 107, not illus.
Bookbinder, Judith. Boston Modern: Figurative Expressions as Alternative Modernism. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2005, illus. in b&w p. 252, fig. 7.6
Danto, Arthur Coleman. Unnatural Wonders: Essays from the Gap Between Art and Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, mentioned in text p. 33, not illus.
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Braillon-Philippe, Juliette, ed. Maryan (1927-1977), la ménagerie humaine. Exh. cat. Paris: Editions Flammarion, 2013, illus. in color
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The New York Times. "On the Horizon." February 23, 2014, section In Transit, illus. in color p. 3
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Walker, Deborah. "Enigmas in Philip Guston's de Chirico City." Double Dialogues (Canterbury, Australia), Spring 2018. Online, illus. in color
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Raising the Bar: Masterworks from the Collection of Morton and Barbara Mandel. New York: Sotheby's. Auction cat. May 16, 2018.
, illus. in color p. 122
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Blay, Christopher. "'Cowardly and Patronizing': Responses to Postponement of Philip Guston Retrospective." Glasstire (Texas), September 27, 2020. Online, illus. in color
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L'Unione Sarda (Cagliari). "'Dipinse il Ku Klux Klan': la mostra di Philip Guston viene rinviata. È bufera." October 2, 2020. Online, detail illus. in color
Halperin, Julia. "Why Did the National Gallery Postpone Its Guston Show? The Museum's Director Says the Public Doesn't Need a 'White Artist to Explain Racism' Right Now." artnet News, October 6, 2020. Online, illus. in color
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Mayer, Musa. "A New Book by Philip Guston's Daughter Explores the Origins of the Painter's Ku Klux Klan Imagery--Read an Excerpt Here." artnet News, March 18, 2021. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
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Saenger, Peter. "Philip Guston Made Images That Spark Arguments." Wall Street Journal, April 22, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Saenger, Peter. "Images That Spark Arguments." Wall Street Journal, April 23-24, 2022, p. C14, mentioned in text, not illus.
Cotter, Holland. "After a Tempest, Philip Guston Shines in a Show True to His Spirit." New York Times, April 28, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Reynolds, Pamela. "After postponement, Philip Guston's work finally arrives at the MFA." WBUR, April 28, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Whyte, Murray. "The MFA recast artist Philip Guston amid a nationwide racial reckoning -- here's the result." Boston Globe, April 28, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Cotter, Holland. "True to His Ferocious Spirit." New York Times, April 29, 2022, pp. C1, C14, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Gay, Malcolm. "Are we ready to look at 'Philip Guston Now'?" Boston Globe, April 30, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text
Plagens, Peter. "Review: 'Philip Guston Now,' at Last." Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Tracy, Marc and Robin Pogrebin. "Delayed Philip Guston Show Opens, With a Note From a Trauma Specialist." New York Times, May 1, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Whyte, Murray. "Guston show gives new entry points--and exits." Boston Globe, May 1, 2022, pp. N1, N2, mentioned in text, not illus.
Gay, Malcolm. "Prepping for art of the provocative." Boston Globe, May 1, 2022, pp. A1, A16, illus. in color p. A1 and mentioned in text p. A16
Plagens, Peter. "In Boston, 'Philip Guston Now,' at Last." Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2022, p. A13, mentioned in text, not illus.
Tracy, Marc and Robin Pogrebin. "Bold Art Displayed, Ever So Cautiously." New York Times, May 2, 2022, pp. C1-C2, illus. in b&w p. C2 as part of an installation photo
Baillargeon, Stéphane. "L'art délicat de montrer des oeuvres antiracistes sans froisser." Le Devoir (Montreal), May 5, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Smith, Stephen. "I Paint What I Want to See by Philip Guston review--notes from the 'cancelled' artist who painted the Ku Klux Klan." Times (London), May 17, 2022. Online, detail illus. in color
Colucci, Emily. "'Philip Guston Now' is an Unintentionally Perfect Satire of Contemporary Liberal Cultural Politics." filthy dreams, May 23, 2022. Online, illus. in color
Meyer, Lily. "Don't Look Away from Philip Guston's Cartoonish Paintings of Klansmen." Atlantic, May 24, 2022. Online., illus. in color
Harrington, Leah Triplett. "The MFA Boston Embraced Hard Conversations in Its Philip Guston Show. Why Doesn't It Examine Its Collection Just as Critically?" artnet News, May 26, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Seisdedos, Iker. "Philip Guston: la corrección política puede herir su sensibilidad." El País (Madrid), July 15, 2022. Online, illus. in color
Seisdedos, Iker. "Philip Guston: no cruzar." El País (Madrid), July 16, 2022, p. 7.
, illus. in color
Nadeau, Jean-François. "Le KKK en peinture." Le Devoir (Montreal), July 18, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Schwabsky, Barry. "Philip Guston's Philosophy of Doubt." Nation, July 28, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Roelstraete, Dieter. "Die Angst Vor Der Kunst." Monopol, September 2022, pp. 54-66., illus. in color pp. 64-65
Wilkin, Karen. "Philip Guston finally." New Criterion, September 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Garelick, Jon. "For Philip Guston, the political was personal." Boston Globe, September 2, 2022, section Opinion. Online.
, mentioned in text, not illus.
Garelick, Jon. "For Philip Guston, the political was personal." Boston Globe, September 2, 2022, section Opinion. Print, mentioned in text, not illus.
Allen, Brian T. "Philip Guston Now, Delayed by Race Hysteria, Finally Gets Its Day." National Review, October 1, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Guston, Philip. I Paint What I Want To See. Penguin Classics, 2022, mentioned in text pp. 96-97, not illus.
Philip Guston. Lyon: FAGE éditions, 2022, illus. in color p. 31
Wilkin, Karen. "Philip Guston in Boston, Houston, and Washington." Hudson Review, Spring 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Bui, Phong. "Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation." Brooklyn Rail, May 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Bui, Phong. "Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation." Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2023, pp. 48-49, mentioned in text p. 49, not illus.
Sooke, Alastair. "Timeless art that skewers evil with a savage intensity." Daily Telegraph (London), October 4, 2023, p. 10, section Arts, mentioned in text, not illus.
Wullschläger, Jackie. "Philip Guston, Tate Modern review — violent, unsettling and thrilling from start to finish." Financial Times, October 5, 2023. Online.
, mentioned in text, not illus.
Wullschläger, Jackie. "Violent and unsettling." FT Weekend (London), October 7-8, 2023, section Arts, pp. 14-15., mentioned in text p. 14, not illus.
Januszczak, Waldemar. "Philip Guston: forget the Ku Klux Klan row, this show is unmissable." Times (London), October 8, 2023. Online, illus. in color
Prodger, Michael. "Philip Guston's American monsters." New Statesman (London), October 8, 2023. Online.
, illus. in color
Januszczak, Waldemar. "Uncancelled! Don't miss this show." Sunday Times (London), October 8, 2023, pp. 12-13, illus. in color pp. 12-13
Carolin, Clare. "Philip Guston: controversial delayed Tate show asks 'what would it be like to be evil?'" The Conversation, October 10, 2023. Online.
, mentioned in text, not illus.
Charlesworth, J.J. "Philip Guston and the Politics of Painted Images." ArtReview (London), October 13, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Pritchard, Claudia. "Philip Guston and the art of fear and loathing." The New European, November 1, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Nelson, Saul. "Insomniac Visions." Sidecar (NLR blog), November 24, 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Vincent Valdez: In Memory. Santa Fe: Radius Books, 2023, Fig. 6, illus. in color p. 99
Duponchelle, Valérie. "Philip Guston, le peintre qui met du mouvement dans l'abstraction." Le Figaro (Paris), January 18, 2024, mentioned in text, not illus.