Detail View: Clyfford Still Archives:

UNIQUE ID: 
CPSA.SB007.B001.F007.002
Title: 
Installation view of "Paintings by Clyfford Still", San Francisco Museum of Art, California, March 2-21, 1943
Creation Date: 
1943
Work Creator Name: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Display Measurement: 
8 x 10 inches (20.32 x 25.4 cm)
Work Material Medium Name: 
black-and-white film
Work Material Support Name: 
photographic paper
Work Technique Name: 
black-and-white photography
Work Style Period: 
realism (artistic form of expression)
Current Work Location Name: 
Clyfford Still Museum
Creation Location: 
San Francisco, California
Work Inscription: 
15
Work Inscription: 
3
Work Inscription: 
16
Work Inscription: 
18
Work Inscription: 
8
Work Inscription: 
COPY BY / Dick Myers - Photography / 1975
Work Relation: 
PH-935 (lost)
Work Relation: 
PH-619
Work Relation: 
PH-980 (destroyed)
Work Relation: 
PH-937
Work Relation: 
PH-934 (lost)
Work Description: 
This black and white photograph depicts an installation view of the exhibition “Paintings by Clyfford Still” at the San Francisco Museum of Art in California. Proceeding clockwise from the far left, PH-935 (1938, lost), PH-619 (1930-31), and PH-980 (1938-39, destroyed) occupy the gallery wall. PH-937 (1940, lost) hangs on the front-facing wall in the background. In the foreground, Still’s eldest daughter, Diane, and first wife, Lillian, sit on a bench. PH-934 (1936, lost) appears behind the bench on the far right. Labels positioned beneath each painting correspond with the numbered entries from the typewritten catalog of the exhibition. On view March 2 through March 21, 1943, the retrospective featured a selection of figurative and abstract paintings that spanned the early years of Still’s career. According to the museum’s accession files, the artist submitted thirty-two paintings in total: ten “portraits and landscapes” and twenty-two “less realistic pictures”, although not all of the artworks were shown. The absence of detailed documentation complicates the act of determining which specific artworks were ultimately displayed; however, these photographs serve as visual records that confirm the majority of the paintings presented in Still’s first significant one-person exhibition.
Citation: 
Installation view of "Paintings by Clyfford Still", San Francisco Museum of Art, California, March 2-21, 1943. Photo: Clyfford Still. Courtesy the Clyfford Still Archives © City and County of Denver/ ARS, NY
Work Rights Statement: 
© City and County of Denver/ ARS, NY
Image Date Type: 
creation
Image Type Format: 
Tiff
Image Holding Institution: 
Clyfford Still Museum
Image Collection Name: 
CSM Archival Collection: Objects
Image Rights Statement: 
Photo: Clyfford Still, courtesy the Clyfford Still Archives
Image Capture Hardware: 
Epson Expression 10000XL
Image Capture Operating System: 
Macintosh OS X 10.11.1
Image Capture Software: 
LaserSoft Imaging™ SilverFast® Ai 6
Image Cataloger Name: 
Kate Landers
Image Cataloger Role: 
Assistant Archivist