Clyfford Still

American, 1904 - 1980

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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

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