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UNIQUE ID: 
1.2011.642_2
Work Type: 
paintings (visual works)
Title: 
PH-331
Title Notes: 
preferred
Title: 
no title
Creation Date: 
1946-1947
Work Creator Name: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Display Measurement: 
59 x 35 inches (149.9 x 88.9 cm)
Work Material Name: 
oil paint (paint)
Work Material Support Name: 
canvas
Work Technique Name: 
palette knives (painting equipment)
Work Style Period: 
Abstract
Work Style Period: 
Abstract Expressionist
Current Work Location Name: 
Clyfford Still Museum
Creation Location: 
San Francisco, California
Work Inscription: 
Clyfford 1946-7
Work Inscription Author: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Description: 
This work has a playful quality, utilizing the contrast of thick versus thin uses of color. The left side of the canvas features predominantly thin vertical lines of blue, black, yellow and white, emerging from the solid black of the background. On the right, thicker applications of color combine to create fuller forms in white and crimson, with interludes of yellow and blue against black. In the top right side of the work, white, yellow, and blue vertical lines extend in a downward fashion, reaching through the darkness. Splashes of orange appear on the right side and the top left side of the canvas.
Citation: 
Clyfford Still, PH-331, 1946. Oil on canvas, 59 x 35 inches (149.9 x 88.9 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