Detail View: Art Collection:

UNIQUE ID: 
1.2011.433_2
Work Type: 
paintings (visual works)
Title: 
PH-22
Title Notes: 
preferred
Title: 
no title
Creation Date: 
1955-56
Work Creator Name: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Display Measurement: 
92 1/2 x 69 3/4 inches (235 x 177.2 cm)
Work Material Name: 
oil paint (paint)
Work Material Support Name: 
canvas
Work Technique Name: 
palette knives (painting equipment)
Work Style Period: 
Abstract Expressionist
Current Work Location Name: 
Clyfford Still Museum
Creation Location: 
New York, New York
Work Inscription: 
Clyfford 1955
Work Inscription: 
Clyfford 1956
Work Inscription Author: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Description: 
A jagged powder-blue/gray form rises from the bottom right corner and up towards the top edge not quite filling the right half of this composition and leaving the top right corner bare. This form is surrounded by a thin border of white pigment, separating it from the bare canvas beyond. A darker gray form just barely enters the scene along the lower right edge. A deep brown form rises along the left edge. A darker brown/almost purple lifeline runs through this brown form. Several thin areas of white paint surround this brown form, though not as completely as the powder-blue form. A turquoise blue streak runs to the right of the brown form from top almost to bottom, and two yellow and orange forms overlap along the left lower center edge. A single small dab of crimson red is sandwiched between the brown and turquoise forms near the bottom edge.
Citation: 
Clyfford Still, PH-22, 1955-56. Oil on canvas, 92 1/2 x 69 3/4 inches (235 x 177.2 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