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P52.002

To B.W.T., 1952
Oil on canvas
48½ x 51½ in.
123.2 x 130.8 cm
Signed front lower left: Philip Guston 
Provenance
Seattle Art Museum, Gift of the Friday Foundation in honor of Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis, 2020.14.10
The Friday Foundation
Collection of Jane Lang Davis
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Lang
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Brown, Springfield, MA
Exhibitions
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, "Abstract Expressionists", March 03, 1953 - March 29, 1953
Iowa Memorial Union and Iowa Art Building, Iowa City, IA, "Then and Now: American Painting in the 1930s and 1950s", June 13, 1954 - July 31, 1954
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, Utica, NY, "Italy Rediscovered, An Exhibition of Work by American Painters in Italy since World War II", March 06, 1955 - March 27, 1955
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "Recent Paintings Philip Guston", February 06, 1956 - March 03, 1956 
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "12 Americans", May 29, 1956 - September 09, 1956
Dwight Art Memorial, South Hadley, MA, "Abstract Expressionism", February 07, 1957 - February 28, 1957
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962  Travelled to:
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, "Philip Guston", September 20, 1962 - October 15, 1962
Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, "Philip Guston", January 16, 1963 - February 17, 1963
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, "Philip Guston", March 01, 1963 - March 24, 1963
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, "Philip Guston", May 22, 1963 - June 30, 1963
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, "Philip Guston, A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945-1965", February 27, 1966 - March 27, 1966 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970", October 18, 1969 - February 01, 1970
Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York, NY, "[Unknown Title]", December 1978 - January 11, 1979
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980  Travelled to:
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", July 20, 1980 - September 09, 1980
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", November 12, 1980 - January 11, 1981
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", February 25, 1981 - April 26, 1981
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", June 24, 1981 - September 13, 1981
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, "The Richard and Jane Lang Collection", February 02, 1984 - April 01, 1984
Smith College Museum of Art, Northhampton, MA, "Dorothy C. Miller: With An Eye to American Art", April 19, 1985 - June 16, 1985
McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Paintings from the Fifties", April 22, 1995 - June 03, 1995 
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", September 02, 1999 - November 01, 1999  Travelled to:
Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947 - 1979", February 16, 2000 - April 24, 2000
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, "Philip Guston: Paintings of Four Decades", May 12, 2000 - July 30, 2000
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
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston Retrospective", October 27, 2003 - January 04, 2004
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, "Philip Guston Retrospective", January 24, 2004 - April 12, 2004
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, "Frisson: The Richard E. Lang and Jane Lang Davis Collection", October 15, 2021 - November 27, 2022
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Philip Guston Now", March 02, 2023 - August 27, 2023 
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Then and Now: American Painting 1930s and 1950s. Exh. cat. Iowa City: State University of Iowa, School of Fine Arts, 1954, cat. no. 40, illus. in b&w (no page #), listed as "Painting No. 3, 1952"
Italy Rediscovered. Exh. cat. Utica: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1955, cat. no. 22 illus. in b&w, listed as Painting No. 3, 1952, Lent by the Egan Gallery
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