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P69.126

Blackboard, 1969
Oil on canvas
79½ x 112 in.
201.9 x 284.5 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston; inscribed on reverse: PHILIP GUSTON/ "BLACKBOARD." [underlined]/ 1969/ OIL - 79 1/2 x 112
Provenance
Private Collection
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 
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", October 13, 1982 - December 12, 1982  Travelled to:
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", January 13, 1983 - February 27, 1983
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, "Philip Guston: Paintings 1969 - 1980", May 08, 1983 - June 19, 1983
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003  Travelled to:
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
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, "Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Image", November 19, 2006 - March 04, 2007
Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, 1969-1979", September 09, 2021 - October 30, 2021 
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
Bibliography
Rosenberg, Harold. "Liberation from Detachment." The New Yorker, November 7, 1970, pp. 136–41, mentioned in text p. 138, not illus.
Preston, Malcolm. "Art: Guston Exhibit at BU Gallery." Boston Herald Traveler, December 1970, mentioned in text, not illus.
Phillips, Michael. "Phillip Guston's New Paintings." Boston Review of the Arts, December 15, 1970, mentioned in text, not illus.
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1970, cat. no. 21, illus. in b&w p. 26
Philip Guston: Recent Work. Exh. brochure. La Jolla: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1971, cat. no. 21, not illus.
Rosenberg, Harold. The De-Definition of Art: Action Art to Pop to Earthworks. New York: Horizon Press, 1972, mentioned in text p. 135, not illus.
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1982, cat. no. 2, illus. in b&w p. 64
Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat. Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984, cat. no. 13, illus. in color p. 28 (not in exhibition)
Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color, Plate 70, unpaginated
Philip Guston: Odd Man Out. BBC Four, January 28, 2004. Television, illus. in color and in detail in color
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Image. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2006, illus. in color p. 214
Slifkin, Robert. Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013, illus. in color plate 24
Wolf, Bryan J. "Between the Lines: Philip Guston, the Holocaust, and 'Bad Painting.'" American Art, Spring 2020, pp. 50-85, fig. 18 illus. in color pp. 76-77 and mentioned in text pp. 75-77 and 78
Laster, Paul. "Philip Guston: A Life Lived Through Art." Art & Object (Chapel Hill, NC), July 21, 2020. Online, illus. in color
Jacobs, Julia and Jason Farago. "Delay of Philip Guston Retrospective Divides the Art World." New York Times, September 25, 2020. Online, illus. in color online
Jacobs, Julia and Jason Farago. "The Delay of a Retrospective Has Divided the Art World." New York Times, September 26, 2020, pp. C1-C2, illus. in b&w p. C2
Padtberg, Carola. "Zu langsam für die Gegenwart." Der Spiegel (Hamburg), September 29, 2020, section Kultur. Online, illus. in color
Greenberger, Alex. "Philip Guston's KKK Paintings: Why an Abstract Painter Returned to Figuration to Confront Racism." ARTnews, September 30, 2020. Online, illus. in color
Farago, Jason. "The Philip Guston Show Should Be Reinstated." New York Times, September 30, 2020. Online, illus. in color
Woeller, Marcus. "Diese Klan-Kapuzen zwingen vier große Museen zum Offenbarungseid." Die Welt (Berlin), October 1, 2020. Online, illus. in color
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Charlesworth, J.J. "Philip Guston's KKK Paintings Must Be Shown - But Not as Pawns in the Culture Wars." ArtReview (London), October 2, 2020. Online, illus. in color
Greenberger, Alex. "Museum Directors Explain Controversial Decision to Delay Philip Guston Show." ARTnews, October 5, 2020. Online, illus. in color
Estiler, Keith. "Traveling Philip Guston Retrospective Delayed Over Racial Issues in Museums." Hypebeast, October 6, 2020. Online, illus. in color
Allen, Brian T. "Philip Guston and the KKK: Museums Cower and Run for Cover." National Review, October 10, 2020. Online, illus. in color
Greenberger, Alex. "MFA Houston Director Defends Guston Postponement, Korean Art Comes to U.S., and More: Morning Links from October 21, 2020." ARTnews, October 21, 2020. Online, illus. in color
Tallone, Fabio. "Tutti gli errori di quer pasticciaccio brutto di Philip Guston Now." ArtsLife (Milan), November 5, 2020. Online, illus. in color
Cotter, Holland, Roberta Smith and Jason Farago. "The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020." New York Times, December 4, 2020. Online, illus. in color
Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 131 illus. in color p. 134, illus in b&w p. 319 as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text p. 129
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 119 p. 110 and mentioned in text p. 212
Kenney, Nancy. "Adversity forces reinvention: Matthew Teitelbaum on turbulent times at the MFA, Boston." Art Newspaper, February 1, 2021. Online, illus. in color
Cascone, Sarah. "Hauser & Wirth Will Exhibit Philip Guston's Klan Paintings a Year After They Sparked a Fiery Debate About Censorship." Artnet News, March 31, 2021. Online, illus. in color
Bahr, Sarah. "New York Show of Philip Guston Work to Include Klan Images." The New York Times, March 31, 2021. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Nastro, Santa. "Hauser & Wirth presenta a New York una mostra di Philip Guston. Ci sono anche gli incappucciati." Artribune (Rome), April 2, 2021. Online., illus. in color
Kim, Miyoung. "뉴욕 Hauser & Wirth 갤러리의 "Philip Guston, 1969–1979" 展. ArtKoreaTV (Seoul), April 2, 2021. Online, illus. in color
Finestre sull'Arte (Milan). "Vanno in mostra da Hauser & Wirth le opere di Philip Guston che hanno scatenato mille polemiche." April 3, 2021. Online, illus. in color
Anapur, Eli. "The Breakthrough Figuration of Philip Guston Explored at Hauser & Wirth." Widewalls, September 8, 2021. Online, illus. in color
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, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Smith, Roberta. "After the Storm, Philip Guston for Real." The New York Times, September 10, 2021, p. C10, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Whyte, Murray. "How do you contextualize an artist who captured hate?" Boston Globe, September 16, 2021. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text
Scobie, Ilka. "Rebound Ramblings: New York City Art Week 2021 RoundUp." Artlyst, September 19, 2021. Online, illus. in color
Chui, Vivian. "Philip Guston's Most Controversial Decade of Work." Ocula, September 22, 2021. Online, illus. in color and illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Yau, John. "Philip Guston's Unblinking Eye." Hyperallergic, September 30, 2021. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Rhodes, David. "Philip Guston." Brooklyn Rail, October 2021, pp. 74-75.
, mentioned in text p. 74, not illus.
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Novick, Ilana. "Controversial Philip Guston Paintings at Hauser & Wirth." Art & Object (Chapel Hill, NC), October 4, 2021. Online, illus. in color, illus. in color as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text
Goodman, Jonathan. "Philip Guston, 1969-1979 at Hauser & Wirth, NYC (Video + Photo Story)," ArteFuse, October 17, 2021. Online, illus. in color and illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Schor, Mira. "Philip Guston." 4Columns, October 22, 2021. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Baker, R.C. "Tragicomic Soothsayer: Philip Guston Rides Again." Village Voice, October 22, 2021. Online., illus. in color
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.
Whyte, Murray. "Guston show gives new entry points--and exits." Boston Globe, May 1, 2022, pp. N1, N2, mentioned in text, not illus.
Bowen, Jared. 'Philip Guston Now' portrays art of controversial and confrontational painter. Washington D.C.: PBS News Hour, May 12, 2022. Video, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Luke, Ben. "The enigma of Philip Guston: two books unpack artist's fascination with dualities." Art Newspaper, May 24, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Budick, Ariella. "Philip Guston's fearless work outshines qualms and controversy in Boston." Financial Times (London), June 15, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Romain, Michael. "Stray thoughts after a storm." Wednesday Journal (Oak Park, IL), June 21, 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Romain, Michael. "Stray thoughts after a storm." Wednesday Journal (Oak Park, IL), June 22, 2022, p. 3, mentioned in text, not illus.
Shea, Andrew L. "Philip Guston in the padded room." Spectator World, July 28, 2022. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Roelstraete, Dieter. "Die Angst Vor Der Kunst." Monopol, September 2022, pp. 54-66., mentioned in text p. 65, not illus.
Wilkin, Karen. "Philip Guston finally." New Criterion, September 2022. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Rexer, Lyle. "Philip Guston Now." Brooklyn Rail, September 2022, section ArtSeen. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
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
Becker, Chris. "Tabled So Curators Could Add 'Perspectives' Following George Floyd's Murder, this Poignant Show Is Up at MFAH." Houston CityBook, October 24, 2022. Online, illus. in color
Art Daily. "Philip Guston Now, first retrospective in nearly 20 years, opens at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston." October 24, 2022. Online, illus. in color
Houston Chronicle. "MFAH opens new exhibition looking at KKK's murderous deeds, Philip Guston's first Houston show." October 25, 2022. Online, illus. in color
Samudzi, Zoé. "Under the Hood." Jewish Currents, November 16, 2022. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Harris, Gareth. "As a Lightning-Rod Philip Guston Show Tours the U.S., a New Book Explains Why It Put Censorship and Race on a Collision Course." artnet News, January 2, 2023. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Aboulhosn, Angelica. "Philip Guston Now: Better To See Reality, However Harrowing, Than Conceal It." Washington City Paper, March 21, 2023. Online, illus. in color
Wilkin, Karen. "Philip Guston in Boston, Houston, and Washington." Hudson Review, Spring 2023. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Jenkins, Mark. "At the National Gallery's Philip Guston show, lots to unpack: Postponed in 2020 after controversy erupted over the artist's KKK imagery, 'Philip Guston Now' is remarkable and difficult." Washington Post, April 18, 2023. Online, illus. in color
Bui, Phong. "Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation." Brooklyn Rail, May 2023. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Bui, Phong. "Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation." Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2023, pp. 48-49, mentioned in text p. 49, not illus.
Luke, Ben. "Philip Guston at Tate Modern review: riven with anger, engorged with love, haunted by suffering." Evening Standard (London), October 3, 2023. Online, 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. 15, not illus.
Westall, Mark. "Philip Guston's first major UK retrospective in 20 years opens at Tate Modern." FAD Magazine, October 9, 2023. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
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.