Detail View: Art Collection:

UNIQUE ID: 
1.2011.670_2
Work Type: 
paintings (visual works)
Title: 
PH-365
Title Notes: 
preferred
Title: 
no title
Creation Date: 
1949
Work Creator Name: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Display Measurement: 
46 x 34 inches (116.8 x 86.4 cm)
Work Material Name: 
oil paint (paint)
Work Material Support Name: 
canvas
Work Technique Name: 
palette knives (painting equipment)
Work Style Period: 
Abstract Expressionist
Current Work Location Name: 
Clyfford Still Museum
Creation Location: 
San Francisco, California
Work Inscription: 
© 15 46 x 34" PH-365 2 (circled) / Clyfford 1949
Work Inscription Author: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Description: 
A large, rich brown expanse spreads over the entire left side of the composition reaching up to the top edge and down to the bottom right corner. A smaller gray passage sits along the right center edge of the canvas and seems to be awaiting the inevitable moment when it is engulfed by the brown form. A small bright red form sits in the top center of the canvas, surrounded by brown pigment. A small blue form sits at the top left edge of the gray form, and a small yellow form floats in the empty space above the gray form at the top right corner. The rest of the space around the two main forms is left as bare, sized canvas.
Citation: 
Clyfford Still, PH-365, 1949. Oil on canvas, 46 x 34 inches (116.8 x 86.4 cm). Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO.
Work Rights Statement: 
© City and County of Denver / ARS, NY
Image Holding Institution: 
Clyfford Still Museum
Image Collection Name: 
CSM Art Collection: Objects
Image Rights Statement: 
Photo: Gary Regester, courtesy the Clyfford Still Museum