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UNIQUE ID: 
1.2011.445_2
Work Type: 
paintings (visual works)
Title: 
PH-35
Title Notes: 
preferred
Title: 
no title
Creation Date: 
1944
Work Creator Name: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Display Measurement: 
91 x 68 inches (231.1 x 172.7 cm)
Work Material Name: 
oil paint (paint)
Work Material Support Name: 
canvas
Work Technique Name: 
palette knives (painting equipment)
Work Style Period: 
Abstract
Current Work Location Name: 
Clyfford Still Museum
Creation Location: 
Richmond, Virginia
Work Inscription: 
Clyfford 44
Work Inscription Author: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Relation: 
Derived from PH-473, 1943 (oil on paper)
Work Description: 
This work is divided into three horizontal bands of color. More than half of the upper area of the composition is covered with a rich black pigment, below which lies a loosely-painted thin band of pale yellow and a band of golden brown at the bottom edge. A long black shape enters the composition from the bottom left of the canvas, interrupts the continuous bands of color, and runs at a slight diagonal over to the right until jutting upwards at a much steeper angle and ending near the top right corner of the composition. Two white dots are at the top of this sharp black form, and three long red wispy lines fall from its tip down off the edge of the canvas at the bottom right. A single green stalk-like form rises from the bottom edge of the work behind the primary black form and splits the brown and yellow bands of color.
Citation: 
Clyfford Still, PH-35, 1944. Oil on canvas, 91 x 68 inches (231.1 x 172.7 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