Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left): Philip Guston '69
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1969–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. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Philip Guston Drawings 1938–1972," July 11–September 4, 1973, no catalogue.
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "The Drawings of Philip Guston," September 8–November 1, 1988, no. 85 (lent by a private collection, New York).
Amsterdam. Museum Overholland. "Philip Guston (The Drawings of Philip Guston)," January 14–March 12, 1989, no. 85.
Barcelona. Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions. "Dibuixos: Philip Guston," March 30–May 14, 1989, no. 85 (lent by a private collection, New York).
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. "The Drawings of Philip Guston," May 28–July 23, 1989, no. 85.
Dublin. Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College. "The Drawings of Philip Guston," August 9–September 16, 1989, no. 85.
Rome. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea. "Philip Guston: Opere Su Carta 1933–1980," October 11–November 26, 1989, no. 69 (as "The Law (La legge)," lent by a private collection, New York).
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. "Philip Guston Retrospective," March 30–June 8, 2003, unnumbered cat. (pl. 75; 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.
Magdalena Dabrowski. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1988, pp. 33–34, 174, no. 85, ill. p. 114.
Musa Mayer. "Philip Guston and the Privilege of Writing Badly." Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry & Prose No. 13 (1988), p. 3, ill. front cover.
April Kingsley. "Amsterdam: Drawings of Philip Guston." Burlington Magazine 131 (January 1989), p. 60.
Dore Ashton. A Critical Study of Philip Guston. 2nd. ed. [1st ed., 1976]. Berkeley, 1990, ill. p. 162.
Joanna Weber inPhilip Guston: A New Alphabet, The Late Transition. Exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, 2000, pp. 22–23, fig. 13, ill. back cover.
Harry Cooper inPhilip Guston A New Alphabet: The Late Transition. Exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, 2000, p. 30.
Harry Cooper. "Recognizing Guston (In Four Slips)." October 99 (Winter 2002), p. 99.
Michael Auping inPhilip Guston Retrospective. Exh. cat., Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Fort Worth, 2003, pp. 13, 240, colorpl. 75.
"Philip Guston: Abstract Expressionism's Provocative Pioneer and Ultimate Critic." USA Today (West Babylon, N.Y.) (November 2003), p. 49.
Musa Mayer. "Philip Guston and the Privilege of Writing Badly." Columbia: A Journal of Literature & Art No. 40 (October 2004), p. 175, reprints Ref. Mayer 1988.
Robert Zaller. "The Abandoned Studio: Philip Guston's Gnostic Testament." Boulevard 20, nos. 2–3 (2005), p. 107.
Robert Slifkin. Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art. Berkeley, 2013, p. 57, fig. 27.
David Sylvester. Ein Gespräch mit Philip Guston. Bern, 2013, pp. 64, 106, fig. 19 (color).
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, p. 295.
Debra Bricker Balken inPhilip Guston: Nixon Drawings 1971 & 1975. Ed. Musa Mayer and Sally Radic. Exh. cat., Hauser & Wirth, New York. [Zurich], 2017, p. 194, fig. 7 (color).
Jean Bundy. "Interpreting Racism Through the Exhibition ‘Philip Guston Now’." anchoragepress.com. October 26, 2020, ill. (color).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1936
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