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1. The artist; upon his death by descent to his wife, Musa Guston (1908-1992), New York; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 11, 1993.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Marlborough Gallery, Philip Guston Recent Paintings, Oct. 17–Nov. 7, 1970, cat. 29.
• Boston University Art Gallery, New Paintings, Philip Guston, Nov. 14–Dec. 13, 1970, no cat.
• La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art (now Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego), Philip Guston: Recent Work, July 31–Oct. 3, 1971, cat. 9.
• London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Examining Pictures: exhibiting paintings, May 7–June 27, 1999, not in cat.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, July 24–Sept. 19, 1999; Los Angeles, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Jan. 2–May 2, 2000 (Los Angeles only).

• Marlborough Gallery, Philip Guston, exh. cat. (New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1970), 10, cat. 29, 34 (ill.).
• La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Philip Guston: Recent Work, exh. brochure (La Jolla: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1971), n.p., cat. 9.
• Roberta Smith, "The New Gustons," Art in America 66 (Jan.–Feb. 1978): 103.
• Clark Coolidge, ed., Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011), 224.
• Robert Slifkin, Out of Time: Philip Guston and the Refiguration of Postwar American Art, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013), 41, fig 14 (ill.).
• Alex Greenberger, "Philip Guston's KKK Paintings: Why an Abstract Painter Returned to Figuration to Confront Racism." ARTnews, Sept. 30, 2020, Online, https://www.artnews.com/feature/philip-gustons-kkk-paintings-history-meaning-1234572056/
• Antonio Gurrado, "Le stonature della polizia del linguaggio." Il Foglio (Rome), Oct. 12, 2020, Online (color ill.), https://www.ilfoglio.it/bandiera-bianca/2020/10/12/news/le-stonature-della-polizia-del-linguaggio-1180759/
• David Elliott, "Grave Nowhere: The Unstoppable Paintings of Philip Guston." Border Crossings 39, no. 3 (November 2020): 50.
• Harry Cooper, Mark Godfrey, Alison de Lima Greene, and Kate Nesin, Philip Guston Now, exh. cat. (Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020), 7.
• Robert Storr, Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting (London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020), 122, 126, fig. 121 (color ill.), 129, 131.
• Zoé Samudzi, "Under the Hood," Jewish Currents, Nov. 16, 2022, Online, https://jewishcurrents.org/under-the-hood
• Clark Coolidge, ed., Philip Guston: Que peindre sinon l'énigme (Strasbourg: L'Atelier Contemporain, 2023), 469.

Couple in Bed

Art Institute of Chicago

Red Box

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Green Sea

Art Institute of Chicago

Rite

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait II

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

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Pile Up

Art Institute of Chicago

Pleasures I

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