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UNIQUE ID: 
1.2011.634
Work Type: 
painting
Title: 
PH-321
Creation Date: 
1948
Work Creator Name: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Display Measurement: 
50 1/4 x 45 3/4 in. (127.8 x 116.3 cm)
Work Material Name: 
oil paint
Work Material Support Name: 
canvas
Current Work Location Name: 
Clyfford Still Museum
Creation Location: 
San Francisco, California
Work Inscription: 
1948 Clyfford
Work Inscription: 
49 x 46 / 1948 P-321 2 (circled) BW
Work Inscription: 
1948 Clyfford
Work Inscription: 
Clyfford 1948
Work Inscription Author: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Inscription Author: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Description: 
Composed of intermingling flurries in yellow and brown, this relatively square painting is typical of Still's classic early Abstract Expressionist style. Several interjections of white at top center and left center fill the gaps between the yellow forms. The white pigment appears only in areas of bare canvas left exposed at the top and left center. A black form infiltrates the scene from the right edge, reaching into the brown at the bottom right. A bright blue is just visible in the black form's core at the bottom right edge. Two small fiery red flashes appear as accents: one is seen at the top left amidst one of the yellow forms and the other hovers in the brown just above the black appendage at the bottom right.
Citation: 
Clyfford Still, PH-321, 1948. Oil on canvas, 50 1/4 x 45 3/4 inches (127.8 x 116.3 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