Detail View: Art Collection:

UNIQUE ID: 
1.2011.884_2
Work Type: 
paintings (visual works)
Title: 
PH-623
Title Notes: 
preferred
Title: 
no title
Title: 
Prairie Winter
Title: 
Freight Leaving Town
Creation Date: 
1929?1930
Work Creator Name: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Display Measurement: 
28 x 36 inches (71.1 x 91.4 cm)
Work Material Name: 
oil paint (paint)
Work Material Support Name: 
canvas
Work Technique Name: 
impasto
Work Style Period: 
Regionalist (American Scene)
Current Work Location Name: 
Clyfford Still Museum
Creation Location: 
Killam, Alberta, Canada
Work Description: 
A black and yellow train races across a snowy landscape along the horizon in front of two stark blue grain elevators which rise vertically and perpendicular to the horizon. The engine's smoke slices through the gray sky and creates a yellow and red flash in the work's top left corner.
Citation: 
Clyfford Still, PH-623, 1929?30. Oil on canvas, 28 x 36 inches (71.1 x 91.4 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