COLLECTION NAME:
Art Collection
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CSM~18~18
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UNIQUE ID:
1.2011.481_2
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1.2011.481_2
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Work Type:
paintings (visual works)
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paintings (visual works)
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false
Title:
PH-85
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PH-85
Title
false
Title Notes:
preferred
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preferred
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Title:
no title
title
no title
Title
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Title:
1942-No. 2
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1942-No. 2
Title
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Creation Date:
1942
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1942
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Work Creator Name:
Still, Clyfford
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Still, Clyfford
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false
Work Display Measurement:
70 x 40 inches (177.8 x 101.6 cm)
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70 x 40 inches (177.8 x 101.6 cm)
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Work Material Name:
oil paint (paint)
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oil paint (paint)
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false
Work Material Support Name:
canvas
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canvas
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false
Work Technique Name:
palette knives (painting equipment)
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palette knives (painting equipment)
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false
Work Style Period:
Abstract
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Abstract
Work Style Period
false
Work Style Period:
Abstract Expressionist
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Abstract Expressionist
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Current Work Location Name:
Clyfford Still Museum
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Clyfford Still Museum
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Creation Location:
Oakland, California
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Oakland, California
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Work Relation:
second version of destroyed painting PHX-5, 1942 (1940-No. 1)
work_relation_
second version of destroyed painting PHX-5, 1942 (1940-No. 1)
Work Relation
false
Work Description:
Still's use of a thick, impastoed paint application emphasizes the medium and surface of the painting. The entire canvas is dominated by a large vertical white form running from top to bottom edge. It is punctured at its top left by a deep brown-black void which reveals the deep brown pigment filling the background and surrounding the white form. A yellow form with a brown "lifeline" at its center rises from the bottom edge of the work and runs through the center of the larger white form. A single sky-blue semi-circle is located at top right edge of this larger white form. The negative space around these forms is interrupted by two thin, ghostly red lifelines originating at the top edge of the work. To the white form's left, a smaller, floating vertical white form lies parallel to the canvas' left edge and has a crimson red line at its core.
work_description_
Still's use of a thick, impastoed paint application emphasizes the medium and surface of the painting. The entire canvas is dominated by a large vertical white form running from top to bottom edge. It is punctured at its top left by a deep brown-black void which reveals the deep brown pigment filling the background and surrounding the white form. A yellow form with a brown "lifeline" at its center rises from the bottom edge of the work and runs through the center of the larger white form. A single sky-blue semi-circle is located at top right edge of this larger white form. The negative space around these forms is interrupted by two thin, ghostly red lifelines originating at the top edge of the work. To the white form's left, a smaller, floating vertical white form lies parallel to the canvas' left edge and has a crimson red line at its core.
Work Description
false
Citation:
Clyfford Still, PH-85, 1942. Oil on canvas, 70 x 40 inches (177.8 x 101.6 cm). Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO.
citation_
Clyfford Still, PH-85, 1942. Oil on canvas, 70 x 40 inches (177.8 x 101.6 cm). Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO.
Citation
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Work Rights Statement:
© City and County of Denver / ARS, NY
work_rights_statement
© City and County of Denver / ARS, NY
Work Rights Statement
false
Image Holding Institution:
Clyfford Still Museum
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Clyfford Still Museum
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false
Image Collection Name:
CSM Art Collection: Objects
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CSM Art Collection: Objects
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false
Image Rights Statement:
Photo: Gary Regester, courtesy the Clyfford Still Museum
image_rights_statement
Photo: Gary Regester, courtesy the Clyfford Still Museum
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false