Clyfford Still

American, 1904 - 1980

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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.”
Clyfford Still, PH-571 (1951-N), 1951, oil on canvas, Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, Gift in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1989.87.1

PH-571 (1951-N)

Clyfford Still · 1951 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1989.87.1

This painting features a large section of yellow with vertical lines and irregular forms along the edges. A splash of red mixed with white and orange is on the right side, looking similar to long, vertical drips of paint. In the bottom left corner, there are irregular shapes in slightly darker yellow.
Clyfford Still, PH-115, 1951, oil on canvas, Gift of Marcia S. Weisman, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1990.126.2

PH-115

Clyfford Still · 1951 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1990.126.2