
Art Institute of Chicago
Green Sea
Philip Guston · 1976
Provenance
Ownership history
- Estate of the artist; sold through David McKee Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 19, 1986.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, David McKee Gallery, Philip Guston: Paintings 1976, Part I, Mar. 18–Apr. 8, 1977, cat. 14; New York, David McKee Gallery, Philip Guston: Paintings 1976, Part II, Apr. 9–Apr. 30, 1977.
- Chicago, Allan Frumkin Gallery, Philip Guston, Major Paintings 1975–76, Sept. 29–Nov. 2, 1978, no cat.
- New York, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Alexander Brook, Philip Guston, Clyfford Still Memorial Exhibition, Nov. 17–Dec. 21, 1980, cat. 25.
- Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Philip Guston: The Late Works, Aug. 17-Sept. 16, 1984, cat. 22; Perth, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Sept. 26–Oct. 28, 1984; Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Nov. 7–Dec. 30, 1984.
Literature
Published references
- David McKee Gallery, Philip Guston: Paintings 1976, exh. brochure (New York: David McKee Gallery, 1977), n.p., cat. 14.
- Roberta Smith, “The New Gustons,” Art in America (January–February 1978), 103 (color ill.).
- Joanna Frueh, "Shoes Slogging through Hell: Philip Guston at the Allan Frumkin Gallery." Chicago Reader, October 27, 1978, section 1, Art, 41.
- H. H. "Remembering Philip Guston," Chicago (December 1980): 246 (color ill.).
- American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Memorial Exhibition: Alexander Brook, Philip Guston, Clyfford Still, exh. cat. (New York: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1980), n.p., cat. 25.
- Carter Ratcliff, "The Mastery of Philip Guston," Saturday Review (January 1981): 83 (color ill.).
- Edward F. Fry, Philip Guston: The Late Works, exh. cat. (Melbourne: The National Gallery of Victoria, 1984), 19, 37, cat. 22 (color ill.).
- James N, Wood and Katharine C. Lee, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 2nd, 3rd ed. (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1988, 1991, 1992), 162 (color ill.)
- James N, Wood and Katharine C. Lee, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 2nd, 3rd ed. (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1999), 159 (color ill.)
- Robert Storr, Philip Guston: A Life Spent Painting (London: Laurence King Publishing, 2020), 197.
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