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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1993.24
People
Philip Guston, American (Montreal, Canada 1913 - 1980 Woodstock, NY)
Title
Untitled
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1964
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310040

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Distemper(?) with oil on off-white wove paper, mounted to off-white matboard
Dimensions
mount: 81.5 x 106.7 cm (32 1/16 x 42 in.)
actual: 76.3 x 101.9 cm (30 1/16 x 40 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black gouache, lower center: Philip Guston
  • inscription: u.l.c. of verso, graphite: 455 [noted in file; not visible 1/02 due to mounting]
  • blind stamp: STRATHMORE / [design of thistle] / USE EITHER SIDE
  • label: in file [still on paper backing-- meant to be adhered to work?], black felt-tip, handwritten: 455. Untitled 1964 / Fogg Art Museum / Harvard U / Cambridge, MA

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Philip Guston; to Musa Guston, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1993.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Musa Guston
Copyright
© The Estate of Philip Guston, courtesy Hauser & Wirth
Accession Year
1993
Object Number
1993.24
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Joanna Weber and Harry Cooper, Philip Guston: A New Alphabet, The Late Transition, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, CT, 2000), pl. 6 (color)
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 36, 135, repr. as pl. 64 on p. 135

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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