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Artist Philip Guston (American, born Canada, 1913 - 1980)
Date1972
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 72 7/8 × 79 1/8 inches (185.1 × 200.98 cm)
Framed: 74 1/2 × 80 3/4 inches (189.23 × 205.11 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Musa Guston
Object numberF92-21
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History
Philip Guston: New Paintings, Boston University Art Gallery, March 15-April 14, 1974.
Provenance

Bequeathed by the artist to his wife, Musa Guston (1908-1992), Woodstock, NY, 1980-1992;

 

Her bequest to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1992.

Published References

Philip Guston New Paintings, exh. cat. (Boston: Boston University, 1974), unpaginated, (repro.).

 

Clark Coolidge, "Clark Coolidge Class 1," audio recording, Boulder, CO, Naropa Institute Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, July 1, 1980.

 

Alice Thorson, “Nelson galleries veer toward the abstract,” The Kansas City Star (July 11, 1993): I-1, I-3, (repro.).

 

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 258, (repro.).

 

"Portfolio and Documents: Philip Guston," TO: A Journal of Poetry, Prose & the Visual Arts 2, no. 3–4 (Spring 1994): 167, 173, (repro.).

 

Clark Coolidge, 16 Poems for Philip Guston, (Portland, OR: Container Corps, 2021), 6-7, (repro.).

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