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P56.001

Untitled, 1955-56
Oil on canvas
75⅞ x 72 in.
192.7 x 182.9 cm
Signed front lower right: Philip Guston
Provenance
Private Collection, Medina, WA
Private Collection
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Teiger, West Orange, New Jersey
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Nature in Abstraction, the Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art", January 14, 1958 - March 16, 1958 Travelled to:
The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C., "Nature in Abstraction, the Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art", April 02, 1958 - May 04, 1958
Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX, "Nature in Abstraction, the Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art", June 02, 1958 - June 29, 1958
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, "Nature in Abstraction, the Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art", July 16, 1958 - August 24, 1958
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, "Nature in Abstraction, the Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art", September 10, 1958 - October 12, 1958
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, "Nature in Abstraction, the Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art", October 29, 1958 - December 14, 1958
City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, "Nature in Abstraction, the Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art", January 07, 1959 - February 08, 1959
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, "10th Anniversary Exhibition : X Years of Janis", September 29, 1958 - November 01, 1958
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, "V Bienal, Estados Unidos, 1959", September 21, 1959 - December 31, 1959
US Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, Venice , Italy, "Quattro Artisti Americani: Guston, Hofmann, Kline, Roszak, XXX Biennale Venezia", June 18, 1960 - October 16, 1960
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
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
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, "Philip Guston Peintures 1947 - 1979", September 13, 2000 - December 04, 2000
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy, "Philip Guston and the Poets", May 10, 2017 - September 03, 2017 
Bibliography
Devree, Howard. "Nature and Art: Whitney Show Traces Abstract Paths." The New York Times, January 19, 1958, p. X17, mentioned in text, not illus.
Coates, Robert M. "The Nature of Nature." The New Yorker, January 25, 1958, pp. 90–92, mentioned in text pp. 91-92, not illus.
Hess, Thomas B. "Inside Nature." ARTnews, February 1958, pp. 40-43, 59-65, illus. in b&w p. 41
X Years of Janis. Exh. cat. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1958, cat. no. 70, color plate, Collection Edgar Kaufmann
Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art. Exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1958, illus. in color p. 44
A V Bienal, Estados Unidos, 1959. Exh. cat. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 1959, cat. no. 9, not illus., Collection Mr. Edgar Kaufmann, New York, NY
Ashton, Dore. Philip Guston. New York: Grove, 1960, illus. in b&w p. 38 (unpaginated)
Quattro Artisti Americani: Guston, Hofmann, Kline, Roszak, XXX Biennale Venezia. Exh. cat. Washington, D.C.: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1960, cat. no. 3, illus. in b&w p. 21, Coll. Sig. e Sig.ra David A. Teiger West Orange, New Jersey
XXX Biennale Internazionale D'Arte. Exh. cat. Venice: Biennale de Venice, 1960, cat. no. 3, not illus., listed as "Senza Titolo"
Philip Guston. Exh. cat. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1962, cat. no. 30, illus. in b&w p. 65
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.
Brach, Paul. "Philip Guston at McKee." Art in America, October 1995, pp. 131–32, illus. in color pg. 131
Philip Guston: Paintings from the Fifties. Exh. cat. New York: McKee Gallery, 1995, cat. no. 8, illus. in color (no page #)
Schreier, Christoph, Michael Auping, and Martin Hentschel. Philip Guston: Gemalde 1947–1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1999, unnumbered catalog, illus. in color p. 73
Philip Guston Tableaux / Paintings 1947 - 1979. Exh. cat. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000, illus. in color p. 73
Sirlin, Deanna. "Philip Guston: A Painter and His Muses." Art Section (Atlanta), June 2017. Online, illus. in color and mentioned in text
Ober, Cara. "How Philip Guston Found Salvation in Poetry." Hyperallergic, June 21, 2017. Online, mentioned in text, not illus.
Sooke, Alastair. "Philip Guston's daughter on growing up with a giant of American art." Telegraph (London), July 30, 2017, section Culture, Art, Artists. Online, illus. in color
Philip Guston & The Poets. Exh. cat. Essay by Kosme de Barañano. Hauser & Wirth, 2017, illus. in color p. 28
Thomas, Elly. Play and the Artist's Creative Process. New York: Routledge, 2019, illus. in b&w Fig. 3.4 p. 68 and illus. in color Plate 14 (no page number) and mentioned in text pp. 67, 69, 73, 129 and 143
Caliandro, Christian. "L'arte rotta (VII). Imprevisto e libertà secondo gli artisti." Artribune (Rome), February 24, 2020. Online, illus. in color as part of an installation photo
Coolidge, Clark, ed. Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme. Translated by Éric Suchère. Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023, illus. in color no. 59 (unpaginated)