PH-571 (1951-N)

1951

Clyfford Still

Artist, American, 1904 - 1980

Layers of rust-red and bronze-brown, textured paint cover this vertical, abstract canvas. The layers give way to a patch of scarlet-red streaks near the top left corner. A red vein drifts about three-quarters of the way down the canvas. A narrow swipe canary-yellow lines the upper edge of the painting above the red streaks, which are about a quarter of the way across from the left edge. A few minuscule spots of lapis-blue nearly go unnoticed along the right edge of the canvas near the bottom right corner. The artist signed the painting in the lower left corner, “Clyfford.”
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On View

NGA, East Building, EU-407-B, S

Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York); sold 1976 to Robert and Jane Meyerhoff, Phoenix, Maryland;[1] gift (partial and promised) 1989 to NGA; gift completed 1991.
[1] Provenance from The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995, Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996: 260.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1959

  • Paintings by Clyfford Still, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1959, no. 58.

1969

  • Clyfford Still, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York, 1969-1970, no. 26, color repro.

1978

  • Selections from the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1978.

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, unnumbered catalogue, color repro.

1996

  • The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996, no. 183, color repro.

1997

  • Founders and Heirs of the New York School, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai; The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, 1997, no. 20, repro.

2001

  • Monet and Modernism, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, 2001-2002, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

2009

  • The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2009-2010, pl. 6.

2014

  • Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, 2014, pl. 44.

Bibliography

1996

  • The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996: no. 183.

Inscriptions

lower left: Clyfford / 1951; reverse: Clyfford 1951-N

Wikidata ID

Q20194462

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