Inscription: Signed (lower left): Philip Guston; inscribed (lower right): Forio Ischia '49
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1949–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)
New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. "Philip Guston," May 2–July 1, 1962, unnumbered cat. (lent by the artist).
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. "Philip Guston," September 20–October 15, 1962, no. 97 (as "tekening nr. 2 (ischia)").
London. Whitechapel Gallery. "Philip Guston," January 16–February 17, 1963, unnumbered cat. (lent by the artist).
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. "Philip Guston," March 1–24, 1963, no. 97 (as "Dessin no. 2 (ischia)").
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Philip Guston," May 15–June 23, 1963, unnumbered cat.
New York. David McKee Gallery. "Philip Guston: Drawings 1947–1977," October 3–November 4, 1978, no. 3 (as "Ischia," lent by a private collection).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Philip Guston," May 16–June 29, 1980, no. 14 (lent by the artist).
Washington, D. C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. "Philip Guston," July 20–September 9, 1980, no. 14.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. "Philip Guston," November 12, 1980–January 11, 1981, no. 14.
Denver Art Museum. "Philip Guston," February 25–April 26, 1981, no. 14.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Philip Guston," June 24–September 13, 1981, no. 14.
Iowa City. University of Iowa Museum of Art. "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties," January 25–March 16, 1997, no. 22 (lent by a private collection).
Greenville, S.C. Greenville County Museum of Art. "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties," April 9–June 29, 1997, no. 22.
Utica, N.Y. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art. "Philip Guston: Working Through the Forties," November 15, 1997–January 4, 1998, no. 22.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. "Philip Guston Retrospective," March 30–June 8, 2003, unnumbered cat. (pl. 20; as "Drawing No. 2, Ischia," 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.
Kunstmuseum Bonn. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," March 1–May 20, 2007, no. 4 (lent by a private collection).
Humlebæk. Louisiana Museum. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," May 31–August 26, 2007, no. 4.
Vienna. Albertina. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," September 7–November 25, 2007, no. 4.
Munich. Pinakothek der Moderne. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," December 13, 2007–March 2, 2008, no. 4.
New York. Morgan Library and Museum. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," May 2–August 31, 2008, no. 4.
Rome. Museo Carlo Bilotti. "Philip Guston: Roma," May 26–September 5, 2010, no. 2 (as "Forio–Ischia (Drawing No. 2)," lent by a private collection, Woodstock, N.Y.).
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. "Philip Guston: Locating the Image," November 23, 2019–March 8, 2020, unnumbered cat. (fig. 24; as "Drawing no. 2 (Ischia)," lent by a private collection).
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. "Philip Guston Now," October 23, 2022–January 15, 2023, unnumbered cat. (pl. 31; lent by a private collection).
Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. "Philip Guston Now," March 2–August 27, 2023, unnumbered cat.
H. H. Arnason. Philip Guston. Exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, 1962, pp. 18, 114, ill. p. 19, calls it "Drawing No. 2" in text.
Ross Feld inPhilip Guston. Exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1980, pp. 38, 129, no. 14.
Thomas Albright. "A Curious Repertoire of the Guston Imagery." S. F. Sunday Examiner & Chronicle (May 25, 1980), p. 36, calls it "Ischia".
Thomas Albright. "Philip Guston: 'It's a Strange Thing to Be Immersed in the Culture of Painting...'." Art News 79 (September 1980), p. 114, calls it "Ischia".
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat., Whitechapel Art Gallery. London, 1982, ill. p. 60, calls it "Ischa".
Philip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. [Sydney], 1984, p. 61.
Dore Ashton. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. 2nd. ed. [1st ed., 1976]. Berkeley, 1990, ill. p. 83.
William Corbett. Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir. Cambridge, Mass., 1994, pp. 24–25.
Christoph Schreier inPhilip Guston: Works on Paper. Ed. Christoph Schreier and Michael Semff. Exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bonn. Ostfildern, 2007, pp. 48, 181, no. 4, fig. 4 (color), ill. p. 30 (color), calls it "Ischia" in the caption.
John Yau. "Philip Guston Works on Paper." brooklynrail.org. July – August 2008.
Lance Esplund. "Guston Times Two." New York Sun (May 1, 2008), p. 15.
Peter Benson Miller inPhilip Guston: Roma. Ed. Peter Benson Miller. Exh. cat., Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome. Ostfildern, 2010, pp. 41, 212, no. 2, ill. p. 148 (color).
Michael Semff inPhilip Guston: Roma. Ed. Peter Benson Miller. Exh. cat., Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome. Ostfildern, 2010, pp. 92, 99 n. 8.
Clark Coolidge, ed. Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations. Berkeley, 2011, pp. 152, 254.
David Anfam. "Guston's Trauma: Ideal/Abject." Go Figure! New Perspectives on Guston. Ed. Peter Benson Miller. New York, 2014, p. 85, calls it "Drawing No. 2, Ischia".
Musa Mayer. Resilience: Philip Guston in 1971. Exh. cat., Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles. Zurich, 2019, pp. 21, 174 n. 16, p. 179, ill. p. 24 (color).
Karen Lang. Philip Guston: Locating the Image. Exh. cat., Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. Oxford, 2019, p. 41, fig. 24 (color).
Robert Storr. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London, 2020, no. 265, ill. p. 246 (color), calls it "Drawing no. 2 (Ischia)".
Musa Mayer. Philip Guston. London, 2020, p. 26, ill. (color).
Harry Cooper inPhilip Guston Now. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Washington, D.C., 2020, p. 44, colorpl. 31.
Alexander Adams. "Guston Book Reviews." Jackdaw no. 150 (March/April 2020), p. 19.
Philip Guston. I Paint What I Want To See. [London], 2022, pp. 83–84, 184, reprints Ref. Coolidge 2011.
Musa Mayer. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 7th [1st ed, 1988]. [Zurich], 2023, p. 361, fig. 37 (color).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1936
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