Clyfford Still, American, b. Grandin, North Dakota, 1904–1980 Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
108 3/4 × 92 in. (276.2 × 233.7 cm)
Type:
Painting
Date:
1950
Provenance:
The artist, New Windsor, Maryland, 1950-1965
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, to 1969
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 1969-1 January 1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Exhibition History:
CLYFFORD STILL STUDIO, New York. Private Showing, 1950, no cat.
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA,
Philadelphia. "Clyfford Still," 18 October-15 December 1963, no. 13.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART. "New York School: The
First Generation: Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s," 16 June-1 August 1965, no. 111, p. 194.
MARLBOROUGH-GERSON GALLERY, New York. "Clyfford Still," October-November 1969, no. 21, p. 41.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, no. 710, p. 488.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "The Fifties: Aspects of Painting in New York," 22 May-21 September 1980, no. 17, color ill. p. 62.
HAUS DER KUNST, Munich (organized by Whitney Museum of American Art). "American Painting 1930-1980," 14 November 1981-31 January 1982, no. 194.
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART. "Grace Hartigan, Morris Louis, Clyfford Still, Anne Truitt," 14 October-5 December 1982.
MARTIN-GROPIUS-BAU, Berlin. "American Art in the Twentieth Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993," 8 May-25 July 1993, no. 103, ill. pg. 177. Tour: ROYAL ACADEMY, London, 17 September-12 December 1993.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Clyfford Still: Paintings 1944-1960," 21 June-16 September 2001, no. 20.
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO, Toronto. "The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art, 1950-2005," 1 June-7 August 2005, no. 2, ill. p. 41.
THE JEWISH MUSEUM, New York. "Action/Abstraction: Abstract Expressionism and Postwar America," 2 May-21 September 2008. Tour: SAINT LOUIS ART MUSEUM, 17 October-25 January 2009; ALBRIGHT-KNOX ART GALLERY, Buffalo, 27 February-31 May.
CLYFFORD STILL MUSEUM, Denver. "Repeat/Recreate: Clyfford Still's 'Replicas'," 18 September 2015-10 January 2016, cat.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Manifesto: Art x Agency," 15 June 2019-31 January 2020.
Published References:
TUCHMAN, MAURICE. New York School: The First Generation (Greenwich, Connecticut: New York Graphic Society, 1971), pp. 119, 149.
LERNER, ABRAM et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), pp. 488, 752.
RAYNOR, VIVIEN. "A Preview of the New Hirshhorn Museum," New York Times (14 July 1974), sec. 2.
SANDLER, IRVING. The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), pl. 6.
O'NEILL, JOHN P. Clyfford Still (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979), fig. 15, pp. 31, 190-191.
WALDMAN, DIANE. Jack Youngerman (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1986) fig. 8, pp. 18-19.
ATHEARN, ROBERT G. and MEDIA PROJECTS INC. American Heritage Illustrated
History of the United States Volume 16: Decades of Cold War (New York: Choice Publishing, 1988), p. 1369.
HALL, LEE. Betty Parsons: Artist, Dealer, Collector (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991), ill.
KINGSLEY, APRIL. The Turning Point (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), p. 149.
SHAW-EAGLE, JOANNA. "Calendar: Top Picks," Washington Times (21 June 2001), ill.
UNSIGNED. "Weekends' Best: Our Picks," Washington Post (22 June 2001), ill.
RATCLIFF, CARTER. "The Idea of Order in the Art of Clyfford Still," Art in America (December 2001), cover ill.
KUSPIT, DONALD. "Unconscious and Self-Conscious in 'American-Type' Painting," The Rebirth of Painting in the Late Twentieth Century (Cambridge, UK.: Cambridge University Press, 2000), fig. 21, p. 95.
LAKE, SUSAN and BARBARA A. RAMSAY. Clyfford Still: The Artist's Materials (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2022), fig. 2.16 (color), p. 44.
Credit Line:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
