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UNIQUE ID: 
1.2011.624
Work Type: 
painting
Title: 
PH-309
Creation Date: 
between 1948 and 1949
Work Creator Name: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Display Measurement: 
53 5/8 x 45 1/4 in. (136.1 x 115.1 cm)
Work Material Name: 
oil paint
Work Material Support Name: 
canvas
Current Work Location Name: 
Clyfford Still Museum
Creation Location: 
San Francisco, California
Work Inscription: 
Clyfford 1948
Work Inscription: 
45 x 54 1948-9 P-309 2 BW (circled)
Work Inscription: 
Clyfford 1948
Work Inscription: 
1948-9
Work Inscription: 
1948-9
Work Inscription Author: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Inscription Author: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Description: 
PH-309 is mostly covered in a mottled middle gray-brown pigment. An irregular large shape painted with a darker charcoal gray pigment dominates the left half of the composition. A thin snaking red line runs down this shape's center. Two smaller irregular shapes painted in a lighter gray sit on either side of the dark gray shape at the composition's center left and bottom right edges. A dark yellow-gray shape sits at the center of the light gray shape on the left edge, and a dark brown/maroon linear form hovers within the light gray form at the bottom right.
Citation: 
Clyfford Still, PH-309, 1948–49. Oil on canvas, 53 5/8 x 45 1/4 inches (136.1 x 115.1 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