the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1968–d. 1980); his widow, Musa Guston, Woodstock, N. Y. (1980–d. 1992); their daughter, Musa Guston Mayer, New York (from 1992; her promised gift to MMA)
Boston University, School of Fine & Applied Arts Gallery. "Philip Guston: New Paintings," March 15–April 14, 1974, no. 32.
Melbourne. National Gallery of Victoria. "Philip Guston: The Late Works," August 18–September 16, 1984, no. 11 (lent by The Estate of Philip Guston).
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. "Philip Guston: The Late Works," September 27–October 28, 1984, no. 11.
Sydney. Art Gallery of New South Wales. "Philip Guston: The Late Works," November 8–December 30, 1984, no. 11.
Kunstmuseum Bonn. "Philip Guston: Gemälde 1947–1979," September 2–November 1, 1999, unnumbered cat. (p. 91; lent by The Estate of Philip Guston).
Ottawa. National Gallery of Canada. "Philip Guston: Paintings of Four Decades," May 12–July 30, 2000, unnumbered cat.
Paris. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou. "Philip Guston Peintures 1947–1979," September 13–December 4, 2000, unnumbered cat. (p. 61).
New York. Paula Cooper Gallery. "From the Observatory," March 16–April 20, 2002, no. 16 (lent courtesy David McKee Gallery, New York).
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. "Philip Guston Retrospective," March 30–June 8, 2003, unnumbered cat. (pl. 64; lent by a private collection).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Philip Guston Retrospective," June 28–September 27, 2003, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Philip Guston Retrospective," October 28, 2003–January 4, 2004, unnumbered cat.
London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Philip Guston Retrospective," January 24–April 12, 2004, unnumbered cat.
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. "Philip Guston: Das große Spätwerk / Late Works," November 6, 2013–February 2, 2014, unnumbered cat. (p. 29; lent by a private collection).
Hamburg. Deichtorhallen. "Philip Guston Late Works," February 22–May 25, 2014, unnumbered cat.
Humlebaek. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. "Philip Guston Late Works," June 4–September 7, 2014, unnumbered cat.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Philip Guston Now," May 1–September 11, 2022, unnumbered cat. (p. 209; lent by a private collection).
Harold Rosenberg. "Liberation from Detachment." New Yorker 46 (November 7, 1970), p. 140.
Harold Rosenberg. The De-Definition of Art: Action Art to Pop to Earthworks. New York, 1972, p. 139 [reprints Ref. Rosenberg 1970].
Dan Levin. "Guston Art in the Pink." News (March 21, 1974), p. 5.
John Russell. "Art View: Three Shows With a Sense of Play." New York Times (March 28, 1976), p. 97.
Philip Guston. Philip Guston Talking. Ed. Renée McKee. February 27, 1978 [transcript of a lecture given at the University of Minnesota; first published in Ref. Serota 1982, p. 52].
Ross Feld inPhilip Guston. Exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1980, p. 22, fig. 7.
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat., Whitechapel Art Gallery. London, 1982, p. 52, ill. p. 57, reprints Ref. Guston 1978.
Philip Guston inPhilip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. [Sydney], 1984, p. 55, ill., reprints Ref. Guston 1978.
Roy Oxlade. "Book Reviews: Father Was Brilliant." Modern Painters (Summer 1991), p. 102, calls it "The Paw" and dates it 1975.
David Anfam. "Bonn, Philip Guston." Burlington Magazine 141 (December 1999), p. 768.
Petra Halkes. "Figuring Out Abstraction." Border Crossings 19 (August 2000), p. 76.
Roberto Ohrt inPhilip Guston. Ed. Albrecht Kastein. Exh. cat., BQ Gallery. Cologne, 2001, ill. p. 44.
Albert Mobilio. Me with Animal Towering. New York, 2002, ill. front cover (color).
Kenneth Baker. "Philip Guston's Magnificent Conflicts Yielded Great Controversy. And Some Great Paintings as Well Says Kenneth Baker." San Francisco Chronicle (June 28, 2003), p. D1.
Robert Nickas. After the Observatory. Exh. cat., Paula Cooper Gallery. New York, 2003, mentioned in text n.p., no. 16, ill. (color).
Philip Guston. Philip Guston. Ed. Renée McKee. Exh. cat., Timothy Taylor Gallery. London, 2004, p. 27, reprints Ref. Guston 1978.
Christopher Bucklow. What is in the Dwat: The Universe of Guston's Final Decade. [Grasmere], 2007, p. 109 n. 131.
Aaron Rosen. Imagining Jewish Art: Encounters with the Masters in Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj. London, 2009, p. 60.
David Kaufmann. Telling Stories: Philip Guston's Later Works. Berkeley, 2010, p. 15.
Clark Coolidge, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley, 2011, pp. 156, 184–85, 189, ill.
Philip Guston. "Talk at 'Art/Not Art?' Conference [1978]." Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Ed. Clark Coolidge. Berkeley, 2011, p. 281, reprints Ref. Guston 1978.
Mathilde Urfalino. "Les poem-pictures de Philip Guston." octopusnotes no. 2 (December 2013), p. 105, fig. 48.
David Sylvester. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. Bern, 2013, p. 59, fig. 18 (color), reprints Ref. Guston 1978.
Philip Guston inPhilip Guston: Das Grosse Spätwerk/Late Works. Ed. Ingrid Pfeiffer and Max Hollein. Exh. cat., Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Cologne, 2013, pp. 124–25, reprints Ref. Guston 1978.
Craig Burnett. Philip Guston: The Studio. London, 2014, p. 55.
David Anfam. "Guston's Trauma: Ideal/Abject." Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. Ed. Peter Benson Miller. New York, 2014, p. 89.
Ara H. Merjian. "Guston's Italian Badness." Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. Ed. Peter Benson Miller. New York, 2014, p. 67.
Mette Gieskes. "I is an Other: Philip Guston's Imagined Incarnations of God and Klansmen." Example Or Alter Ego?: Aspects of the Portrait Historié in Western Art from Antiquity to the Present. Ed. Volker Manuth et al. Turnhout, 2016, pp. 302–3, no. 6, ill. (color).
Peter Benson Miller. Studio Systems. Exh. cat., American Academy in Rome. New York, 2016, p. 46.
Solveig Øvstebø, ed. Jennifer Packer: Tenderheaded. Exh. cat., Renaissance Society, University of Chicago. Chicago, 2018, ill. p. 89 (color).
Musa Mayer. Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971. Exh. cat., Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles. Zurich, 2019, pp. 37, 179, ill. p. 39 (color).
Elly Thomas. Play and the Artist's Creative Process: The Work of Philip Guston and Eduardo Paolozzi. New York, 2019, pp. 163–64.
Robert Storr. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London, 2020, p. 111, no. 109, ill. (color).
Musa Mayer. Philip Guston. London, 2020, p. 59, ill. p. 60 (color).
Bryan J. Wolf. "Between the Lines: Philip Guston, the Holocaust, and 'Bad Painting'." American Art 34 (Spring 2020), p. 67, fig. 15 (color).
Kate Nesin inPhilip Guston Now. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 2020, pp. 209, 246 n. 9, fig. 3 (color).
Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi and Stephen Ellcock. Jeux de Mains. Marseille, 2021, ill. p. 205 (color).
Craig Burnett. "Mixed Emotions." Apollo 195 (May 2022), pp. 80, 83, fig. 2 (color).
Philip Guston. I Paint What I Want To See. [London], 2022, pp. 94, 113, ill. p. 116.
Laurie Fendrich. "Philip Guston's Existential Ferocity." twocoatsofpaint.com. June 1, 2022, ill. (color).
The Guston Foundation, ed. Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [gustoncrllc.org/home/catalogue_raisonne], 2024–25 (accessed), no. P68.004, ill. (color).
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