Catalogue Raisonné
P54.001
Oil on canvas
63¼ x 60⅛ in.
160.7 x 152.7 cm
Signed and dated front lower right: P. G./ '54
- Provenance
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Philip Johnson Fund
- Exhibitions
- Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, "50 ans d'Art aux Etats-Unis, Collections du Museum of Modern Art de New York", March 30, 1955 - May 15, 1955 Travelled to:
- Charles Egan Gallery, New York, NY, "[tenth anniversary show]", May 1955
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "12 Americans", May 29, 1956 - September 09, 1956
- Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, "IV Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna, de São Paulo", September 22, 1957 - December 31, 1957
- Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, "Die Neue Amerikanische Malerei", April 19, 1958 - May 26, 1958 Travelled to:
- Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, "V Bienal, Estados Unidos, 1959", September 21, 1959 - December 31, 1959
- The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, "Paths of Abstract Art", October 04, 1960 - November 13, 1960
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Philip Guston", May 03, 1962 - July 01, 1962 Travelled to:
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Paintings from the Museum of Modern Art, New York", December 17, 1963 - March 01, 1964
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, "New York School The First Generation Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s", June 18, 1965 - August 01, 1965
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection", October 11, 1965 - November 12, 1965
- Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, "Philip Guston, A Selective Retrospective Exhibition: 1945-1965", February 27, 1966 - March 27, 1966
- University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, "Six Painters: Mondrian, Guston, Kline, De Kooning, Pollock, Rothko", February 23, 1967 - April 02, 1967
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection", June 30, 1967 - September 26, 1967
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection", March 20, 1968 - June 11, 1968
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art including promised gifts", June 18, 1969 - October 05, 1969
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collections", April 22, 1971 - February 24, 1972
- Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, "American Art from The Museum of Modern Art", February 15, 1979 - April 16, 1979 Travelled to:
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Philip Guston, Retrospective 1930 - 1979", May 15, 1980 - June 29, 1980 Travelled to:
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Reinstallation of the Collection", November 19, 1981 - January 03, 1982
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Selections from the Permanent Collection, Painting and Sculpture", May 17, 1984 - March 27, 1985
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Philip Johnson: Selected Gifts", April 10, 1985 - October 27, 1985
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Selections from Permanent Collection, Painting and Sculpture", December 23, 1985 - February 17, 1989
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, "Philip Guston: Retrospectiva de Pintura", March 01, 1989 - May 08, 1989 Travelled to:
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Selections from the Permanent Collection, Painting and Sculpture", February 21, 1990 - July 31, 1990
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Selections from the Permanent Collection, Painting and Sculpture", August 23, 1991 - May 28, 1992
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Works from the Collection", May 28, 1992 - July 26, 1992
- Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France, "Les Nympheas, avant et apres", October 27, 1992 - January 25, 1993
- McKee Gallery, New York, NY, "Philip Guston: Paintings from the Fifties", April 22, 1995 - June 03, 1995
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "From Bauhaus to Pop: Masterworks Given by Philip Johnson", June 06, 1996 - September 03, 1996
- Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, "Shifting Visions: O'Keefe, Guston, Richter", October 10, 1998 - January 24, 1999
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Postwar to Pop: Masterworks from MoMA's Collection", April 30, 1999 - October 05, 1999
- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, "Philip Guston Retrospective", March 30, 2003 - June 08, 2003 Travelled to:
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation", November 20, 2004 - September 17, 2007
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Painting and Sculpture Changes 2008", August 08, 2008 - December 08, 2008
- L&M Arts, New York, NY, "Philip Guston 1954-1958", January 15, 2009 - February 28, 2009
- Irish Museum of Modern Art, Kilmainham, Dublin 8, Ireland, "Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts", March 31, 2010 - June 27, 2010
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture", October 03, 2010 - April 25, 2011 Travelled to:
- Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France, "Nymphéas. L'abstraction américaine et le dernier Monet" (The Water Lilies. American Abstract Painting and the last Monet)", April 13, 2018 - August 20, 2018
- Bibliography
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- El arte moderno en los Estados Unidos. Exh. cat. Barcelona: Palacio de la Virreina y Museo de Arte Moderno, 1955, cat. no. 77, not illus.
- 50 ans d'art aux Etats-Unis, Collections du Museum of Modern Art de New York. Exh. cat. Paris: Musee National d'Art Moderne, 1955, cat. no. 77, not illus.
- Coates, Robert M. "Ninth Inning." The New Yorker, June 9, 1956, pp. 120–22, mentioned in text p. 122, not illus.
- Miller, Dorothy C., ed. 12 Americans. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1956, unnumbered catalog, illus. in b&w p. 39
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Modern Art in the United States: A Selection from the Collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Exh. cat. London: Tate Gallery, 1956.
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- The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art. "Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions, June 1, 1953 through June 30, 1955." 1956, illus. in b&w p. 21
- IV Bienal do museu de arte moderna. Exh. cat. São Paulo: Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, 1957, Estados Unidos cat. no. 7, not illus.
- Jong Amerika Schildert. Exh. cat. Amsterdam: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, cat. no. 26, not illus.
- The New American Painting La Nuova Pittura Americana. Exh. cat. Milan: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, cat. no. 26, illus. in b&w p. 41
- The New American Painting Die neue amerikanische Malerei. Exh. cat. Basel: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, cat. no. 26, not illus.
- The New American Painting La Nouvelle Peinture Americaine. Exh. cat. Brussels: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958, cat. no. 26, illus. in b&w p. 35
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- Coates, Robert M. "Excursions (and Alarums) Abroad." The New Yorker, June 6, 1959, pp. 151–52, 155–56, mentioned in text p. 156, not illus.
- The New American Painting: As Shown in Eight European Countries 1958–1959. Exh. cat. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1959, cat. no. 25, illus. in b&w p. 41
- A V Bienal, Estados Unidos, 1959. Exh. cat. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 1959, cat. no. 5, not illus.
- The New American Painting. Exh. cat. London: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959, cat. no. 25, illus. in b&w p. 37
- Jackson Pollock et La Nouvelle Peinture Americaine. Exh. cat. Paris: The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959, cat. no. 25, not illus.
- Paths of Abstract Art. Exh. cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1960, cat. no. 86, illus. in b&w p. 57
- R[aynor], V[ivien]. "New York Reports: In the Galleries: Philip Guston." Arts, September 1962, p. 50, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 24, illus. in b&w p. 61
- Lambert, Helen. "Guston Show Heads London Gallery List." New York Herald Tribune (Paris), January 16, 1963, p. 5, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Lynton, Norbert. "London Letter." Art International, February 25, 1963, pp. 68–71, mentioned in text p. 69, not illus.
- Nordland, Gerald. "Review at Mid-Life." Frontier, July 1963, pp. 23–25, mentioned in text pp. 24-25, not illus.
- Paintings from The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1963, unnumbered catalog, illus. in b&w p. 84
- Suro, Dario. "La Cultura Desde Washington." Ahora, February 20, 1964, pp. 24-25, illus. in b&w p. 24
- Tuchman, Maurice. New York School, The First Generation: Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1965, cat. no. 40, illus. in b&w p. 105
- Tuchman, Maurice. New York School, The First Generation: Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s. Paperback ed. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society Art Library, 1965, cat. no. 45, illus. in b&w p. 80
- 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. 9
- Six Painters: Mondrian, Guston, Kline, De Kooning, Pollock, Rothko. Exh. cat. Houston: University of St. Thomas Art Department, 1967, cat. no. 15, illus. in b&w p. 37
- The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation, from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Including Promised Gifts. Brochure. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1969, cat. no. 37, not illus.
- Huyghe, Rene, and Jean Rudel. L'Art et le monde moderne, vol. 2. Paris: Librarie Larousse, 1970, illus. p. 215
- Tuchman, Maurice, ed. New York School: The First Generation. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1971, illus. in b&w no. 45, p. 80
- O'Hara, Frank. "Growth and Guston." In Art Chronicles 1954–1966. New York: George Braziller, 1975, pp. 134-141, mentioned in text p. 137, not illus.
- Barr, Alfred H. Jr. Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art 1929–1967. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977, illus. in b&w p. 334
- O'Connor, Francis V., ed. "Philip Guston and Political Humanism." In Arts and Architecture in the Service of Politics, edited by Henry A. Milton and Linda Nochlin. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1978, Fig. 7 illus. in b&w p. 353 and mentioned in text p. 351
- Toucatt, Ralph. "Metamorphosis: The Art of Philip Guston." The Threepenny Review, Fall 1980, p. 24, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Albright, Thomas. "Philip Guston: 'It's a Strange Thing to Be Immersed in the Culture of Painting...'" ARTnews, September 1980, pp. 114–16, mentioned in text p. 115 (unpaginated), not illus.
- Lyon, Christopher. "Reflections on a Mirror." Chicago Reader, November 28, 1980, section 1, pp. 47–48, mentioned in text p. 47, not illus.
- Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: George Braziller, 1980, cat. no. 24, illus. in color plate 16 p. 60
- Perreault, John. "Guston Winds." SoHo Weekly News, July 8, 1981, p. 51, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Purviance, Nina. "Philip Guston in the Fifties: The Power of Suggestion." Arts Magazine, September 1985, pp. 94–97, Fig. 1 illus. in b&w p. 94 and mentioned in text pp. 94-95
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston. New York: Abbeville Modern Masters, 1986, illus. in color no. 27 p. 32 and mentioned in text pp. 34-35 and 39
- Solomon, Deborah. "Daddy Dearest." Books, New Criterion, September 1988, pp. 72–75, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Gallego, Julian. "El gusto de Guston." ABC (Madrid), March 2, 1989, 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., incorrectly mentioned as being from mid-1940s
- Tyson, Janet. "Autobiographical side paints life of struggle." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, December 28, 1989, section Four, pp. 1, 7, 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. 11, illus. in color p. 42
- Oxlade, Roy. "Father Was Brilliant." Modern Painters, Summer 1991, pp. 101-102, mentioned in text p. 102, not illus.
- Philip Guston in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Exh. cat. Essay by Robert Storr. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1992, illus. in color p. 9 and discussed pp. 10-12
- Silver, Larry. Art in History. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1993, mentioned in text pp. 464 and 465, not illus.
- American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913–1993. Exh. cat. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1993, mentioned in text p. 450, not illus.
- Corbett, William. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Boston: Zoland Books, 1994, mentioned in text p. 24, not illus.
- Smith, Roberta. "A Philip Guston Decade Colored by Red and Pink." New York Times, April 28, 1995, section C, p. 32, mentioned in text, not illus.
- The New Yorker. "Philip Guston (1913–1980)." May 15, 1995, p. 22, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Philip Guston: Paintings from the Fifties. Exh. cat. New York: McKee Gallery, 1995, cat. no. 7, illus. in color (no page #)
- Picasso, Guston, Miro, de Kooning: In vollkommener Freiheit. Exh. cat. Bremen: Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, 1996, mentioned in text p. 96, not illus.
- Mack, Gerhard. "Philip Guston Künstler." Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst 36, no. 3 (1997): pp. 1–16, illus. in color fig. 6, p. 5 and mentioned in text p. 6
- Hughes, Robert. American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997, illus. in color fig. 349 p. 583 and mentioned in text p. 583
- DeLong, Lea Rosson. Shifting Visions O'Keeffe Guston Richter. Exh. cat. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 1998, illus. in color p. 43 and mentioned in text p. 42
- Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, mentioned in text p. 37
- Newton, Steven James. Painting, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, illus. in b&w fig. 38 p. 149
- Kimmelman, Michael. "Anxious Liberator of an Era's Demons." The New York Times, October 31, 2003, section Weekend, pp. E37, E39, mentioned in text p. E39, not illus.
- USA Today (West Babylon, NY). "Philip Guston: Abstract Expressionism's Provocative Pioneer and Ultimate Critic." November 1, 2003, mentioned in text
- Corbett, William. "Philip Guston in Retrospect." Brooklyn Rail, November 2003, p. 15, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Minthorn, David. "Exhibit Honors Acclaimed Guston." Star-Gazette (Elmira, NY), November 2, 2003, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Auping, Michael. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Philip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, illus. in color Plate 35, unpaginated (but would be p. 134)
- Sewell, Brian. "What a waste of a little bit of talent." Evening Standard (London), January 23, 2004, section The Arts, pp. 32-33, illus. in color p. 32
- Anfam, David. The Art of Philip Guston 1913–1980. Exh. brochure. Royal Academy of Arts, 2004, illus. in color
- Baskind, Samantha. Encyclopedia of Jewish American Artists. London: Greenwood Press, 2007, mentioned in text p. 137, not illus.
- This Week in New York. "Riff's Rants & Raves: Art & Literature, Philip Guston: 1954–1958." February 4, 2009. Online, illus. in color online and mentioned in text
- Panero, James. "Gallery Chronicle." New Criterion, February 2009, p. 52, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Proctor, R.A. "Go See: Philip Guston at L&M Arts, New York through February 28th, 2009." AO Art Observed, February 12, 2009. Online, illus. in color online
- Zaller, Robert. "'Philip Guston: The '50s,' in New York." Broad Street Review, February 21, 2009. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Yau, John. "Philip Guston 1954–1958 L&M Arts: January 15–February 28, 2009." Brooklyn Rail, March 2009. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Helander, Bruce. "Guston's Gusto." Art of the Times, Spring 2009, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Balken, Debra Bricker. After Many Springs: Regionalism, Modernism and the Midwest. Exh. cat. Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 2009, illus. in b&w illus. 26 p. 188 and mentioned in text p. 185
- Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts. Exh. cat. Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2010, illus. in color p. 45
- Rosenberg, Karen. "Overlooked Works That Deserve Another Glance." The New York Times, December 31, 2010, section Weekend, Arts, pp. C25, C28, illus. in color p. C25 and mentioned in text p. C28
- Monet y la Abstraccion. Exh. cat. Madrid: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2010, illus. in color p. 58
- Pasta, Paulo. A Educação Pela Pintura. Sao Paulo: WMF Martins Fontes, 2012, cat. no. 21, illus. in color p. 51
- Lewison, Jeremy. "Pollock, De Kooning, Guston: A European Heritage." In Stedelijk Collection Reflections: Reflections on the Collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Rotterdam: Nai010 Publishers, 2012, illus. in color p. 333
- Sylvester, David. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. NichtSoKleineBibliothek 8. Bern: Piet Meyer Verlag, 2013, illus. in color p. 95, illus. no. 36
- 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 pp. 11 and 123, not illus.
- Burnett, Craig. Philip Guston: The Studio. London: Afterall Books, 2014, illus. in color plate 21 (unpaginated)
- Storr, Robert. "Philip Guston: Hilarious and Horrifying." New York Review of Books, March 8, 2015. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color p. 30
- Philip Guston: Nixon Drawings 1971 & 1975. Exh. cat. Essays by Musa Mayer and Debra Bricker-Balken. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color Fig. 3 p. 184
- Findlay, Michael. Seeing Slowly: Looking at Modern Art. New York: Prestel, 2017, illus. in color p. 218
- Brandt, Anthony, and David Eagleman. The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World. New York: Catapult, 2017, illus. in color p. 140
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Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening Auction. New York: Sotheby's. Auction cat., November 16, 2017.
, mentioned in text p. 106, not illus. - Holman, Matthew. "How Monet's Water Lilies Took Root Across the Pond." Apollo (London), July 17, 2018. Online, illus. in color
- Kleeblatt, Norman L. "The Water Lilies: American Abstract Painting and the Last* Monet." Brooklyn Rail, September 4, 2018, section ArtSeen. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
- Auping, Michael. 40 Years: Just Talking About Art. Munich: DelMonico Books, 2018, illus. in color p. 295
- Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong Issue no. 1: Philip Guston. Exh. guide. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth, 2018, illus. in color and mentioned in text p. 12
- Nymphéas: L'abstraction américaine et le dernier Monet. Exh. cat. Paris: Musée d'Orsay, 2018, illus. in color cat. no. 23 p. 161
- Katz, Alex. Looking at Art with Alex Katz. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2018, illus. in color p. 72
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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. 108 - Miller, Peter Benson. Encounters I. Exh. cat. Rome: American Academy in Rome, 2019, mentioned in text p. 6, not illus.
- Smee, Sebastian. "Anger at Donald Trump may turn great artists into political cartoonists. It's happened before." Washington Post, September 4, 2020. Online, illus. in color
- Wecker, Menachem. "The Patronizing Censoring of Philip Guston." Mosaic, December 8, 2020. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
- Cooper, Harry, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, and Kate Nesin. Philip Guston Now. Exh. cat. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020, mentioned in text p. 230, not illus.
- Mayer, Musa. Philip Guston. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, illus. in color p. 37 and mentioned in text p. 35
- Storr, Robert. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020, No. 44 illus. in color p. 59, illus. in b&w p. 304 as part of an installation photo and mentioned in text pp. 52, 60 and 299
- Dohoney, Ryan. Morton Feldman: Friendship and Mourning in the New York Avant-Garde. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, mentioned in text p. 111, not illus.
- Philip Guston. Lyon: FAGE éditions, 2022, illus. in color p. 15
- 박영택 저. "오직, 그림 세계 미술사의 획기적인 그림 51." Korea: Maumsanchaek, 2024, illus. in color no. 35 p. 288 and mentioned in text pp. 289-295
