Detail View: Art Collection:
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UNIQUE ID:
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1.2011.481_2
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Work Type:
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paintings (visual works)
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Title:
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PH-85
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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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1942-No. 2
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Creation Date:
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1942
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Work Creator Name:
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Still, Clyfford
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Work Display Measurement:
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70 x 40 inches (177.8 x 101.6 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
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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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Oakland, California
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Work Relation:
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second version of destroyed painting PHX-5, 1942 (1940-No. 1)
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Work Description:
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Still's use of a thick, impastoed paint application emphasizes the medium and surface of the painting. The entire canvas is dominated by a large vertical white form running from top to bottom edge. It is punctured at its top left by a deep brown-black void which reveals the deep brown pigment filling the background and surrounding the white form. A yellow form with a brown "lifeline" at its center rises from the bottom edge of the work and runs through the center of the larger white form. A single sky-blue semi-circle is located at top right edge of this larger white form. The negative space around these forms is interrupted by two thin, ghostly red lifelines originating at the top edge of the work. To the white form's left, a smaller, floating vertical white form lies parallel to the canvas' left edge and has a crimson red line at its core.
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Citation:
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Clyfford Still, PH-85, 1942. Oil on canvas, 70 x 40 inches (177.8 x 101.6 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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