Detail View: Art Collection:

UNIQUE ID: 
1.2011.540_2
Work Type: 
paintings (visual works)
Title: 
PH-191
Title Notes: 
preferred
Title: 
no title
Creation Date: 
1951
Work Creator Name: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Display Measurement: 
82 1/2 x 45 inches (209.5 x 114.3 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 (48 Cooper Square)
Work Relation: 
Cut down from second version of PH-803, 1951 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Work Description: 
Thick, majestic crimson pigment covers the canvas. A black form dissects the canvas diagonally, from the bottom left corner up to the top right. As it emerges from the bottom left corner, it runs vertically along the left edge before zig-zagging over to center, where it shoots straight up to the top edge, where it grows horizontally and extends off the top right corner. Flickers of orange appear in three distinct areas of the black form, though the most noticeable of the three shoots up from the center towards the top edge.
Citation: 
Clyfford Still, PH-191, 1951. Oil on canvas, 82 1/2 x 45 inches (209.5 x 114.3 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