PH-115, 1951

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 274.3 x 234.9 cm (108 x 92 1/2 in.)

framed: 280.7 x 236.2 x 4.4 cm (110 1/2 x 93 x 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Marcia S. Weisman, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1990.126.2

Artists / Makers

Clyfford Still (artist) American, 1904 - 1980

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Provenance

The artist; gift to Frederick R. Weisman [1912-1994], Los Angeles;[1] acquired 1979 by Marcia S. Weisman [1918-1991], Los Angeles;[2] gift (partial and promised) 1990 to NGA; gift completed 1993.

[1] In interviews pubished in the catalogue of a 1983 exhibition that included the painting, both Frederick and Marcia Weisman recounted the story of the gift. See: Julia Brown and Bridget Johnson, eds., The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections, 1940-1980: Dominique De Menil, Howard and Jean Lipman, Drs. Peter and Irene Ludwig, Giuseppe and Giovanna Panza Di Biumo, Robert A. Rowan, Charles and Doris Saatchi, Taft and Rita Schreiber, The Weisman Family, exh. cat., The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1983: 115, 130.

[2] The Weismans divided their collection at the time of their 1979 divorce.

Associated Names

Weisman, Frederick R.
Weisman, Marcia S., Mrs.

Exhibition History

1980: Clyfford Still Memorial Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980, no catalogue.

1983: The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections, 1940-1980: Dominique de Menil, Howard and Jean Lipman, Drs Peter and Irene Ludwig, Giuseppe and Giovanna Panza di Biumo, Robert a Rowan, Charles and Doris Saatchi, Taft and Rita Schreiber, the Weisman family, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1983-1984, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

1986: Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-1986, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1986-1988, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

1991: Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 396-397, color repro.

1992: Selections from the Marcia Simon Weisman Collection, The Menil Collection, Houston, 1992, unpaginated and unnumbered brochure, color repro.

2001: Clyfford Still: Paintings, 1944-1960, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 2001, no. 28, repro.

2014: Make it New: Abstract Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, 1950-1975, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 2014, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

2004: Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 450-451, no. 379, color repro.