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UNIQUE ID: 
1.2011.658.2
Work Type: 
painting
Title: 
PH-352.2
Title: 
PH-352 (verso)
Creation Date: 
circa 1942
Work Creator Name: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Display Measurement: 
44 x 28 in. (111.8 x 71.1 cm)
Work Material Name: 
oil paint
Work Material Support Name: 
canvas
Current Work Location Name: 
Clyfford Still Museum
Work Inscription: 
Clyfford 43 1/2 x 27 1/2 1942
Work Inscription: 
PH-352 2 BW (circled)
Work Inscription Author: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Relation: 
1.2011.645
Work Relation: 
U-4959
Work Relation: 
1.2011.658.1
Work Relation: 
CPSA.F001.S001.SB001.B001.001
Work Relation: 
1.2011.615.2
Work Description: 
Painted on the verso of PH-352, this unusual work depicts two towering, triangular forms in the center of an ambiguous setting. The closest form is painted a deep sienna brown, and the form behind that is white, which echoes the pigment used to create the thin strip of ground along the bottom edge. A deep black shadow surrounds the two forms, fading into a soft grayish-brown at left but ending in an abrupt diagonal line parallel to the two forms at right. Long black lines fall in the foreground at right from the top edge down to the bottom edge behind a stark red ovoid form located at the bottom right. When seen in relation to the falling, rope-like lines and considered in the context in which Still created this work, this form resembles a pulley.
Citation: 
Clyfford Still, PH-352 (verso), c. 1942. Oil on canvas, 44 x 28 inches (111.8 x 71.1 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