Clyfford Still

PH-1033

PH-1033 https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/ph-1033-1976

1949 No. 1

1949 No. 1 https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1949-no-1-1949

Untitled

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/untitled-1934

1936-7-No. 2

1936-7-No. 2 https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1936-7-no-2-1936

1944-N No. 1

1944-N No. 1 https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1944-n-no-1-1944

1941-R

1941-R https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1941-r-1941

Untitled

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/untitled-1959

1957-J No. 2

1957-J No. 2 https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1957-j-no-2-1957

Untitled

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/untitled-1948

Untitled

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/untitled-1947

In the late 1940s Clyfford Still, along with Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, originated the type of Abstract Expressionism known as color-field painting, a term used to describe very large canvases dominated by monumental expanses of intense, homogeneous color. Like most of Still’s mature work, Untitled is a sheer wall of paint, imposing and self-sustaining, that makes no concessions to conventional notions of beauty or pictorial illusionism. This painting’s textural effects give it an insistent, complex materiality. Dominated by blacks applied with both a trowel and brushes, the surface is by turns reflective and chalky, granular and smooth, feathery and leaden. These variegated black surfaces are even more emphatic because their continuity is broken by areas of blank canvas and white paint. Like veins in igneous rock, streaks of orange, yellow, and green paint are embedded in the black voids. Mediating between the light and dark masses are areas of crimson, heightened at the edges, as if inflamed, by bright orange. Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund; Roy J. and Frances R. Friedman Endowment; through prior gift of Mrs. Henry C. Woods; gift of Lannan Foundation

Untitled https://www.artic.edu/artworks/146991/

PH-351

PH-351 https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/ph-351-1940

PH-1023

PH-1023 https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/ph-1023-1976

In the late 1940s, Clyfford Still, along with Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, originated the type of Abstract Expressionism known as Field Painting, a term used to describe large canvases dominated by one uniform color or a few colors closely related in hue and value. In contrast to Newman and Rothko, who usually applied paint thinly and uniformly, Still used a palette knife, creating textural effects that give the surface a complex, nearly sculptural sense of materiality. Named after the years of its creation, 1951–52 is a rare, nearly all-black work in the artist’s oeuvre. A vertical white line to the right of center and a thin streak of red-orange along the left side provide the sole interruptions in the black field. The subtle modulations of texture and finish support the artist’s claim that "I do not oversimplify—in fact, I revel in the extra complex." Wirt D. Walker Fund; gift of John Stephan

1951-52 https://www.artic.edu/artworks/15569/

1944-G

1944-G https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1944-g-1944

1957-D No. 1

1957-D No. 1 https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1957-d-no-1-1957

date inscribed Purchased 1971

1953 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/still-1953-t01498

Untitled

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/untitled-1971

1947-Y-No. 2

1947-Y-No. 2 https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1947-y-no-2-1947

Untitled

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/untitled-1951

1938-N-No. 1

1938-N-No. 1 https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1938-n-no-1-1938

PH 77

PH 77 https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/ph-77-1936

1956-D

1956-D https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1956-d-1956

Untitled (formerly Self-Portrait)

Untitled (formerly Self-Portrait) https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/untitled-formerly-self-portrait-1945

Gift of Dorothy C. Miller

Figure http://www.moma.org/collection/works/74531

1949-A-No.1

1949-A-No.1 https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1949-a-no-1-1949

1945-H

1945-H https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1945-h-1945

Untitled

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/untitled-1954

Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund

1951-T No. 3 http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79371

Untitled

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/untitled-1952