Detail View: Art Collection:

UNIQUE ID: 
1.2011.544
Work Type: 
painting
Title: 
PH-197
Creation Date: 
1944
Work Creator Name: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Display Measurement: 
68 3/4 x 33 3/8 in. (174.8 x 84.8 cm)
Work Material Name: 
oil paint
Work Material Support Name: 
canvas
Current Work Location Name: 
Clyfford Still Museum
Creation Location: 
Richmond, Virginia
Work Relation: 
CPSA.F001.S001.SB002.B002.026
Work Relation: 
CPSA.F001.S001.SB001.B001.001
Work Relation: 
CPSA.SB007.B001.F024.001
Work Relation: 
CPSA.SB007.B001.F024.002
Work Relation: 
CPSA.SB007.B001.F025.001
Work Relation: 
CPSA.SB007.B001.F025.002
Work Relation: 
CPSA.SB007.B001.F027.001
Work Relation: 
CPSA.SB007.B001.F027.002
Work Relation: 
CPSA.SB007.B001.F027.003
Work Relation: 
CPSA.SB007.B001.F031.002
Work Relation: 
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Work Relation: 
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Work Relation: 
CPSA.SB007.B001.F031.009
Work Relation: 
CPSA.SB007.B001.F035.001a
Work Relation: 
CPSA.SB007.B001.F035.001b
Work Relation: 
CPSA.SB007.B001.F035.002
Work Description: 
The entirety of this composition is dominated by a strange multi-armed black figure with a white cone-shaped head painted onto a painterly green background. The striking white head is located at the top center of the work, and has a bold red "C" shaped stroke on its face. Various long black tendrils/lines fall from the head-like form down towards the bottom third of the composition where they gather in a boat-shaped mass and loop around a round void located at the bottom left. The bottom right corner of the canvas is painted with a brownish-red pigment, which creeps into the perimeter of the figure at its bottom right side.
Citation: 
Clyfford Still, PH-197, 1944. Oil on canvas, 68 3/4 x 33 3/8 inches (174.8 x 84.8 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