Detail View: Art Collection:

UNIQUE ID: 
1.2011.880_2
Work Type: 
paintings (visual works)
Title: 
PH-619
Title Notes: 
preferred
Title: 
no title
Title: 
The Snow Plow
Creation Date: 
1930-1931
Work Creator Name: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Display Measurement: 
33 5/8 x 47 7/8 inches (85.4 x 121.5 cm)
Work Material Name: 
oil paint (paint)
Work Material Support Name: 
canvas
Work Technique Name: 
palette knives (painting equipment)
Work Style Period: 
Regionalist (American Scene)
Current Work Location Name: 
Clyfford Still Museum
Creation Location: 
Killam, Alberta, Canada
Work Description: 
A steam engine rolls into the scene from the right pushing a large snowplow to clear snow from the tracks. A figure wearing an upturned collar and hat stands in the doorway of the yellow snowplow-car and looks back towards the train. A red structure is positioned on the right behind a telephone pole that rises out of the composition at top-right.
Citation: 
Clyfford Still, PH-619, 1930-1. Oil on canvas, 33 5/8 x 47 7/8 inches (85.4 x 121.5 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