Detail View: Art Collection:

UNIQUE ID: 
1.2011.726_2
Work Type: 
paintings (visual works)
Title: 
PH-434
Title Notes: 
preferred
Title: 
no title
Title: 
1938-E
Creation Date: 
1938
Work Creator Name: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Display Measurement: 
42 x 34 inches (106.7 x 86.4 cm)
Work Material Name: 
oil paint (paint)
Work Material Support Name: 
canvas
Work Technique Name: 
palette knives (painting equipment)
Current Work Location Name: 
Clyfford Still Museum
Creation Location: 
Pullman, Washington
Work Inscription: 
Clyfford - 1938
Work Inscription Author: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Description: 
Two seated, abstracted figures are set within an ambiguous glowing yellow setting with a faint pinkish-red orb rising at center. The figures' heads are abstracted to resemble machinery or wrench-like tools, and the rest of their bodies are reduced to bulging, organic masses. Besides the blurry red disc, the only other color in this primarily yellow composition is used to describe two hands, which seem to float, unattached in front of the two figures at the work's bottom left and center.
Citation: 
Clyfford Still, PH-434, 1938. Oil on canvas, 42 x 34 inches (106.7 x 86.4 cm). Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO.
Work Rights Statement: 
© City and County of Denver / ARS, NY
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