Philip Guston
Fable I
1956–57
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Artist
Philip Guston
(American, 1913–1980)
- Title Fable I
- Date 1956–57
- Medium Oil on canvas
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Dimensions
unframed | 64 7/8 x 76 1/16 in.
- Credit line University purchase, Bixby Fund, 1957
- Object number WU 3872
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Technique
oil painting
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Work type
painting
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Theme
Abstraction
Philip Guston Now
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 05/01/2022 - 09/11/2022
National Gallery of Art, 02/26/2023 - 08/27/2023
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 10/23/2022 - 01/15/2023
Philip Guston,
Tate Modern, 10/03/2023 - 02/25/2024
Frederick Hartt and American Abstraction in the 1950s: Building the Collection at Washington University in St. Louis
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/04/2012 - 08/27/2012
Philip Guston: Painterly Abstraction to the Figurative Grotesque
Saint Louis Art Museum, 06/23/2006 - 09/04/2006
Philip Guston Retrospective
Royal Academy of Arts, 01/24/2004 - 04/12/2004
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 10/27/2003 - 01/04/2004
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 06/28/2003 - 09/28/2003
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 03/30/2003 - 06/08/2003
International Abstraction: Art of the 1950s from the Washington University Collections
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/22/1999 - 03/28/1999
Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/12/1998 - 04/05/1998
Abstract Expressionism: American Art in the 1950s and 1960s
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/17/1997 - 04/06/1997
A Gallery of Modern Art
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 08/09/1994 - 10/16/1994
Philip Guston: 50 Years of Painting
Saint Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, Missouri), 09/08/1989 - 10/22/1989
Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, Texas), 11/19/1989 - 01/14/1990
Philip Guston and Max Beckmann: A Reminiscence
Saint Louis Art Museum, 11/08/1988 - 12/13/1988
American Painting Since World War II
Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington, Delaware), 06/08/1971 - 07/11/1971
Washington University Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture from Daumier to Pollock
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 04/06/1966 - 05/08/1966
Philip Guston
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 05/02/1962 - 07/01/1962
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 05/15/1963 - 06/23/1963
Whitechapel Gallery, 01/16/1963 - 02/17/1963
BOZAR Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, 03/01/1963 - 03/24/1963
Stedelijk Museum, 09/15/1962 - 10/15/1962
Opening Exhibition of Mark C. Steinberg Memorial Hall
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 04/29/1960
Philip Guston
Sidney Janis Gallery (New York, New York), 02/24/1958 - 03/22/1958
8 Americans: Albers, de Kooning, Gorky, Guston, Kline, Motherwell, Pollock, Rothko
Sidney Janis Gallery (New York, New York), 04/01/1957 - 04/20/1957
1957
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Inscription Recto, lower right, in gray paint: Philip Guston
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