Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): Philip Guston '75
the artist, Woodstock, N. Y. (1975–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)
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "The Drawings of Philip Guston," September 8–November 1, 1988, no. 118 (lent by a private collection, Woodstock, New York).
Amsterdam. Museum Overholland. "Philip Guston (The Drawings of Philip Guston)," January 14–March 12, 1989, no. 118.
Barcelona. Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions. "Dibuixos: Philip Guston," March 30–May 14, 1989, no. 118 (lent by a private collection, Woodstock, New York).
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. "The Drawings of Philip Guston," May 28–July 23, 1989, no. 118.
Dublin. Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College. "The Drawings of Philip Guston," August 9–September 16, 1989, no. 118.
Les Sables d'Olonne, France. Musee de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix. "Philip Guston (1913-1980): Oeuvres sur papier 1975-1980," June 24–September 30, 1995, no. 3 (as "Dessin pour 'The Web'," lent by a private collection).
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. "Philip Guston Retrospective," March 30–June 8, 2003, unnumbered cat. (pl. 97; lent by a private collection).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Philip Guston Retrospective," June 28–September 27, 2003, 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. 74 (lent by a private collection).
Humlebæk. Louisiana Museum. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," May 31–August 26, 2007, no. 74.
Vienna. Albertina. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," September 7–November 25, 2007, no. 74.
Munich. Pinakothek der Moderne. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," December 13, 2007–March 2, 2008, no. 74.
New York. Morgan Library and Museum. "Philip Guston: Works on Paper," May 2–August 31, 2008, no. 74.
Robert Storr. "Notes on Philip Guston (1913–1980)." Harvard Advocate (1981), ill. p. 7.
Nicholas Serota, ed. Philip Guston: Paintings 1969–1980. Exh. cat., Whitechapel Art Gallery. London, 1982, ill. p. 56, calls it "Study for Web".
Edward F. Fry inPhilip Guston: The Late Works. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. [Sydney], 1984, p. 19, ill.
Magdalena Dabrowski. The Drawings of Philip Guston. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1988, pp. 39, 175, no. 118, ill. p. 142.
Richard Lacayo. "The Drawings of Philip Guston." entertainment.time.com. May 1, 2008, ill. (color).
Kelly Crow. "Guston, With a Cherry on Top: The Artist's Journey from Abstraction to Figurative Art Is Examined in a New Exhibit." Wall Street Journal (May 9, 2008), p. W2, ill.
"Morgan Library & Museum Presents 'Philip Guston: Works on Paper'." Antiques and The Arts Weekly (April 25, 2008), ill. p. 11.
R.C. Baker. "Galumphing Master." Village Voice (June 18–June 24, 2008), ill. p. 39.
Philip Guston inPhilip Guston: Das Grosse Spätwerk/Late Works. Ed. Ingrid Pfeiffer and Max Hollein. Exh. cat., Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Cologne, 2013, pp. 130, 133, fig. 6, reprints Ref. Guston 1978.
Robert Storr. Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting. London, 2020, no. 336, ill. p. 265 (color), calls it "The Sea" (or "Design for 'The Web'" or "Web").
Philip Guston. I Paint What I Want To See. [London], 2022, ill. p. 245.
Musa Mayer. Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston. 7th [1st ed, 1988]. [Zurich], 2023, p. 366, ill. p. 149 (color).
Philip Guston (American (born Canada), Montreal 1913–1980 Woodstock, New York)
1936
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