Detail View: Art Collection:

UNIQUE ID: 
1.2011.1111_2
Work Type: 
paintings (visual works)
Title: 
PH-923
Title Notes: 
preferred
Title: 
no title
Title: 
1943-A-No. 2
Creation Date: 
1943 /1974
Work Creator Name: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Display Measurement: 
91 1/2 x 78 1/2 inches (232.4 x 199.4 cm)
Work Material Name: 
oil paint (paint)
Work Material Support Name: 
canvas
Work Technique Name: 
palette knives (painting equipment)
Work Style Period: 
Abstract Expressionist
Work Style Period: 
Abstract
Current Work Location Name: 
Clyfford Still Museum
Creation Location: 
Westminster, Maryland
Work Inscription: 
Clyfford 1943 /R 74
Work Inscription Author: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Relation: 
Second version of PH-282, 1943, oil on canvas (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY)
Work Description: 
Still has filled this entire composition with a rich blue color. Four fluttery black forms emerge from the edges: two appear in the bottom left corner and two come into view from the top edge. A bold yellow lifeline snakes into the scene between the two black forms at the bottom left, and a thick blood-red lifeline rises from the bottom right edge up to between the two black forms at the top right. Two smaller purple forms embrace the red line near its base. A single small purple disc-shaped object floats amid the blue ground off to the left of the red line's apex.
Citation: 
Clyfford Still, PH-923, 1943/1974. Oil on canvas, 91 1/2 x 78 1/2 inches (232.4 x 199.4 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