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UNIQUE ID: 
1.2011.502
Work Type: 
painting
Title: 
PH-122
Creation Date: 
1947
Work Creator Name: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Display Measurement: 
54 3/4 x 40 5/8 in. (139.2 x 103.1 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: 
Clyfford 1947
Work Inscription: 
P-122 1947
Work Inscription: 
Clyfford - 1947
Work Inscription Author: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Inscription Author: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Inscription Author: 
Still, Clyfford
Work Relation: 
CPSA.F001.S001.SB002.B001.029
Work Relation: 
CPSA.F001.S001.SB001.B001.024.2
Work Description: 
Irregular, quasi-figurative forms fill this early abstract composition. A rich black pigment dominates three-fourths of the canvas leaving only the top right corner, which is painted in a light brown. Strange, surrealistic shapes rendered in gray, green, mauve, blue, and white squirm across the composition throughout the black and brown. A thick yellow life-life runs from top to bottom just right of center.
Citation: 
Clyfford Still, PH-122, 1947. Oil on canvas, 54 3/4 x 40 5/8 inches (139.2 x 103.1 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