Detail View: Art Collection:
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UNIQUE ID:
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1.2011.431_2
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Work Type:
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paintings (visual works)
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Title:
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PH-18
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Title Notes:
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preferred
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Title:
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no title
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Title:
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1955-F
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Creation Date:
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1955
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Work Creator Name:
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Still, Clyfford
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Work Display Measurement:
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108 x 92 inches (274.3x 233.7 cm)
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Work Material Name:
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oil paint (paint)
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Work Material Support Name:
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canvas
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Work Technique Name:
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palette knives (painting equipment)
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Work Style Period:
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Abstract Expressionist
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Current Work Location Name:
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Clyfford Still Museum
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Creation Location:
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New York, New York (131 West 23rd Street)
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Work Inscription:
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Clyfford-1955
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Work Inscription Author:
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Still, Clyfford
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Work Description:
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A giant crimson red field floats in the center of this work, filling the majority of the composition. Two brighter cherry red fields are painted within the larger red form, adding depth and interest. Bare canvas surrounds this form, but a black form hovers ominously along the bottom edge while narrow white forms rise along the left and right edges of the painting. There seems to be a larger white form floating above the red off the edge of the canvas, for several smaller white finger-like protrusions enter the composition along the top edge. One of these fields has a yellow accent at its center. A long yellow lifeline splits the bare canvas to the right of the red form, and runs from the top edge down about three-fourths of the way to the bottom edge.
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Citation:
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Clyfford Still, PH-18, 1955. Oil on canvas, 108 x 92 inches (274.3x 233.7 cm). Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO.
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Work Rights Statement:
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© City and County of Denver / ARS, NY
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Image Holding Institution:
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Clyfford Still Museum
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Image Collection Name:
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CSM Art Collection: Objects
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Image Rights Statement:
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Photo: Gary Regester, courtesy the Clyfford Still Museum
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