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Clyfford Still (American, 1904–1980) 1947-H No. 1 (PH-265), 1947 Oil on canvas; 92 x 58 in.
“For this painting, I’d build a wall.” – Tiffany Weber. CSM – 4619 by Clyfford Still.
Clyfford Still January 1947 62 x 45 inches. Albright-Knox Art Gallery
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1951-T No. 3 is an Abstract Expressionist Oil on Canvas Painting created by Clyfford Still in 1951. It lives at the MOMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York. The image is used according to Educational Fair Use, and tagged Abstract Art.
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In this enormous painting—measuring more than 9 feet high and 12 feet long—Clyfford Still’s trademark colored cracks sluice the canvas with crisp, serrated edges. Made with a palette knife in thick layers of impasto, the jagged crimson, black, and white shapes are defined in areas of accreted paint and punctured by tiny crags of electric blue and deep yellow. Although Still’s imagery has been compared to lightning bolts or fissures in the earth, he cited immaterial sources: “I never wanted…
Clyfford Still’s "PH-369”, 1951. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO. “I want to be in total command of the colors, as in an orchestra. They are voices.”
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