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UNIQUE ID: 
1.2011.574
Work Type: 
painting
Title: 
PH-242
Creation Date: 
between 1943 and 1944
Work Creator Name: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Display Measurement: 
71 1/2 x 43 3/8 in. (181.6 x 110.2 cm)
Work Material Name: 
oil paint
Work Material Support Name: 
canvas
Current Work Location Name: 
Clyfford Still Museum
Creation Location: 
Richmond, Virginia
Work Inscription: 
Clyfford-1943-4
Work Inscription Author: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Relation: 
PH-869
Work Relation: 
CPSA.F001.S001.SB001.B001.012
Work Relation: 
1.2011.761
Work Relation: 
CPSA.F001.S001.SB001.B001.001
Work Description: 
Over a flat black field, a structure-like form is painted at the bottom center of the canvas with a yellow line. It is modeled along its inner left edge by a brown color, and emphasized on its right edge by a acid-green wedge shape painted with thick parallel strokes and running off the edge of the work in the bottom right corner. A thick blood-red line winds its way from the center of the top edge down towards the bottom third of the canvas where it overlaps the yellow form and curves to the left before turning upwards again and abruptly ending directly above the top of the yellow form. In the bottom left corner, a ghostly blue shape with two circular voids one on top of the other emerges from its black surroundings.
Citation: 
Clyfford Still, PH-242, 1943–44. Oil on canvas, 71 1/2 x 43 3/8 inches. (181.6 x 110.2 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