STILL, CLYFFORD

1904–80, American painter, b. Grandin, N.Dak. Still was a pioneer in the use of the mural-sized canvas. He painted vast, thick curtains of intense color, jaggedly torn to reveal other equally intense color areas. His work combines the gesture of abstract expressionism with a reliance on the sensations of pure color typical of color-field painting. Still's first one-man show was held in 1947, and his work is represented in New York's Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and many other collections. A substantial portion of his output awaits the selection of a city and the building of a museum devoted to his work.

See catalogue of his work (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979).

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books on: Still Clyfford  - 74 results

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The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expressionism
Book by Irving Sandler; Harper & Row, 1976
Subjects: Abstract Expressionism--United States--History
...Rothko, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1961. CLYFFORD STILL Statements STILL, CLYFFORD. Statement, Betty Parsons Gallery , New York...Letter to Gordon Smith, in Paintings by Clyfford Still , Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo...
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Modern Painting: Contemporary Trends
Book by Nello Ponente; Skira, 1960
Subjects: Art, Modern--20th Century, Painting, Painting--History
...Civico dArte Moderna, Turin 1960. STILL, Clyfford 1904 Born at Grandin, North Dakota...London, May 1959. -- Paintings by Clyfford Still, exhibition catalogue...Y., 1959. -- H. Crehan, Clyfford Still: Black Angel in Buffalo...
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Index to Reproductions of American Paintings: A Guide to Pictures Occurring in More Than Eight Hundred Books
Book by Isabel Stevenson Monro, Kate M. Monro; H. W. Wilson, 1948
Subjects: Painters--United States, Painting, American
...Ezra, 1727-1795 Moultrop, R. Ezra Stiles Smibert, N. Ezra Stiles STILL, Clyfford E. Totem fantasy IBM. Contemp art of U.S. Still courting by J. G. Brown Still decoration by F. W. Benson Still life by H. Avery Still life by C...
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Encyclopedia of Painting: Painters and Painting of the World from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day
Book by Bernard S. Myers; Crown Publishers, 1979
Subjects: Painters--Biography, Painting--Dictionaries
...art and photography of the period. Still, Clyfford 1904- . American Abstract Expressionist painter. Born in North Dakota, Still spent his early life in the Pacific...with the canvas. See illustration. still life. A kind of painting whose subject...
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A Concise History of American Painting and Sculpture
Book by Matthew Baigell; Icon Editions, 1996
Subjects: Art, American
...Drummond, 103 Stieglitz, Alfred, 193 , 210 , 213 , 219 , 237 , 243 , 251 , 261 Still, Clyfford, 298 , 301 , 305 , 305 - 308 , 309 , 317 , 330 Still Life , Bruce, 236 Still Life -- Violin and Music , Harnett, 178 Still Life with Celery and Wine...
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journal articles on: Still Clyfford  - 14 results

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The Subversion of Gravity in Jackson Pollock's Abstractions
Journal article by Claude Cernuschi, Andrzej Herczynski; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 90, 2008
Subjects: Art history, Industrial production, Pollock, Jackson, Visual artists
...sense of motion can be given to a body in a still picture is by distortion of its tactile...On an upright canvas, the paint-while still in liquid form-would continue to accelerate...17), since vestiges of figuration may still be discernible in the upper-right quadrant...
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Materiality Is the Message
Journal article by Jeanne Siegel; Art Journal, Vol. 58, 1999
Subjects: Art exhibits, Pollock, Jackson, Visual artists
...status as American culture hero. Still, it is my opinion that the...the late 196os, most people still hardly knew what to make of...the best of Pollocks work still transmits its singular energy...beyond citing its borrowing from Clyfford Still and its melodrama. Particularly...
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The Biennial and beyond
Journal article by Karen Wilkin; The Hudson Review, Vol. 57, 2004
Subjects: Art exhibits, Caro, Anthony, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Visual artists
...editing. I emerged from the 2004 Biennial still puzzled by my friends pronouncement and...arched shape that shifted between bodily and still-life allusions. all of the figures were...opposed to the Biennials wispy effusions-is still alive and healthy. Mulherns elusive paintings...
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Gottlieb and Kline
Journal article by Stephen Polcari; Art Journal, Vol. 55, 1996
Subjects: Art exhibits, Gottlieb, Adolph, Kline, Franz, Visual artists
...gourds the artist incorporated into his still lifes of the late 1930s. Increasingly...the same area of the canvas a broad but still limited group of forms and varies them...Kooning, Newman, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Bradley Walker Tomlin, William Baziotes...
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Alexander Cozen's New Method: the Blot and General Nature
Journal article by Charles A. Cramer; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 79, 1997
Subjects: Art, Art criticism, Cozens, Alexander, Visual artists
...depictions of cloudy skies to "a Clyfford Still canvas turned on its side. "5 E...repeated as often as the ink will still mark the paper, each time leaving...stock of ideas," the student "must still be afraid of trusting his own judgment...
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Still against Himself
Magazine article by Harry Cooper; Artforum International, Vol. 39, Summer 2001
Subjects: Abstract expressionism--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Artists--Conduct of life, Still, Clyfford--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Still against himself by Harry Cooper CLYFFORD STILLs sustained disappearing...Pollock, Newman and Still," Artforum (June 1971...A Conversation with Clyfford Still," Art News...Kuh, "Foreword," Clyfford Still, exh. cat...
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Denver Day Trip Golden Triangle
Magazine article by Cheryl Meyers; Sunset, Vol. 221, November 2008
Subjects: Art exhibits, Art galleries & museums, Denver Colorado, Painting, Still, Clyfford (1904-80), Visual artists
...exhibits. 1.Sneak preview If you cant wait to see the Clyfford Still Museum-which opens down the block in 2010-you can get a sneak peek at the Denver Art Museum. Clyfford Still Unveiled exhibits 13 works from Stills personal estate...
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Mike Bidlo Talks to Robert Rosenblum
Magazine article; Artforum International, Vol. 41, April 2003
Subjects: Bidlo, Mike--Biography, Bidlo, Mike--Interviews, Performance art, Pollock, Jackson--Interviews
...installation piece about a mythical Clyfford Still? MB: Oh yeah, that was the show...The piece was based on the time Clyfford Still was asked to take part in...story in the Metropolitan Museum s Clyfford Still catalogue. The idea of the...
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What the Mind's Eye Sees: Action Painters Were Postwar Exemplars of American Individualism
Magazine article by Jason Edward Kaufman; American Scholar, Vol. 77, Spring 2008
Subjects: Modern painting--Criticism and interpretation, Modern painting--Exhibitions, Painting, Modern--Criticism and interpretation, Painting, Modern--Exhibitions
...Atlantic. Among the Americans are Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, and Helen Frankenthaler, alongside Europeans Jean...artists, including Pollock, de Kooning, Gorky, Clyfford Still, and their followers, have been credited with having...
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Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps
Magazine article by Hans-Ulrich Obrist; Artforum International, Vol. 34, February 1996
Subjects: Art museum curators--Practice, Hopps, Walter--Practice
...first gallery, Syndell Gallery, while still a student at UCLA in the early 50s, and...beginning to be shown seriously, like Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, as presented by a brilliant...Kienholz could love both de Kooning and Still. HUO: And Kienholz was linked to Wallace...
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Darryl Corner the View; REVIEW: Elfyn Lewis at St David's Hall, Cardiff, until March 27
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), February 26, 2010
Subjects: Painting, Painting (Art)
...guns of abstract painting come to mind: Motherwell and Clyfford Still from the 50s and the quieter more domestic scale of a...the weight of all the heavy-knifed paint of the past still hangs in the air. Darryl Corner is a freelance photographer...
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Out & About
Newspaper article by Derek Simmonsen; The Washington Times, September 13, 2001
...31 years in the business, the Boston hard rockers are still going strong. See them with up-and-coming rock band...weekend to catch a retrospective of the abstract work of Clyfford Still, gathered from nearly two decades worth of the artists...
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METHOD IN THE MADNESS; for Her Whitechapel Gallery Show, Rachel Harrison Pulls Together a Junkyard of Elements to Create One of Her Exotic Installations -- but There's More to It Than Rubbish, Says Ben Luke
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 27, 2010
Subjects: Art exhibitions, Art--Exhibitions
...minimalist sculpture. For this version, which she is still setting in place, she plans to add plinths borrowed...dimly evokes the painterly abstract expressionism of Clyfford Still. On the plinth, sundry items usually include a pen...
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Eugene Show Stop Uncovers Rich Find
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June 5, 2011
Subjects: Broadcasting industry
...of Chinese jade items appraised last year holds the shows highest value at $710,000 to $1,070,000. A 1937 Clyfford Still oil painting was also valued at $500,000 in 2008. While the Roadshow has been to Portland twice, this was the...
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Judge: Kidd Too Mentally Ill for Trial
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), June 9, 2011
...of Chinese jade items appraised last year holds the shows highest value at $710,000 to $1,070,000. A 1937 Clyfford Still oil painting also was valued at $500,000 in 2008. While the "Roadshow" has been to Portland twice, this was...
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encyclopedia articles on: Still Clyfford  - 3 results

 
 
1.
Still, Clyfford
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
STILL, CLYFFORD 1904 80, American painter, b. Grandin, N.Dak. Still was a pioneer in the use of the mural-sized canvas. He painted vast, thick curtains of intense color, jaggedly torn to reveal other equally intense color areas. His...
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Diebenkorn, Richard
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and composition was influenced by the abstract painters Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko . He turned away from abstraction in...recognizable subjects landscapes, portraits, interiors, and still lifes. Diebenkorn and David Park, Elmer Bischoff...
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Abstract Expressionism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Hans Hofmann , Robert Motherwell , and Mark Rothko ; among other major abstract expressionists were such painters as Clyfford Still , Theodoros Stamos , Adolph Gottlieb , Helen Frankenthaler , Lee Krasner , and Esteban Vicente. Abstract expressionism...


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