Detail View: Art Collection:

UNIQUE ID: 
1.2011.714_2
Work Type: 
paintings (visual works)
Title: 
PH-420
Title Notes: 
preferred
Title: 
Portrait of the Artist's Mother
Creation Date: 
1946
Work Creator Name: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Display Measurement: 
17 1/4 x 22 1/4 inches (43.8 x 56.5 cm)
Work Material Name: 
oil paint (paint)
Work Material Support Name: 
canvas
Work Technique Name: 
brushwork
Work Style Period: 
Realist
Current Work Location Name: 
Clyfford Still Museum
Creation Location: 
Westlock, Alberta, Canada
Work Description: 
In this small electric portrait, Still has painted his white-haired mother from the shoulders up wearing a vivid cobalt blue collared jacket, a lilac and greenish shirt with a white lace collar, and a yellow broach at the top of her breastbone. She stares out at the viewer with piercing gray-blue eyes and a pursed mouth. The background is an ambiguous yellow and white field of color reminiscent of Still's abstractions.
Citation: 
Clyfford Still, PH-420 (Portrait of the artist's mother), 1946. Oil on canvas, 17 1/4 x 22 1/4 inches (43.8 x 56.5 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