January 1951
Date
1951
Artist
Clyfford Still, American, b. Grandin, North Dakota, 1904–1980
Provenance
The artist, New Windsor, Maryland
Private collection (Mrs. Still?)
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Sale #2678, 3 April 1968, no. 89
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 3 April 1968-1 January 1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Exhibition History
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART. "Grace Hartigan, Morris Louis, Clyfford Still, Anne Truitt," 14 October-5 December 1982.
DUKE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART, Durham. "Paintings of the 50s: Another Look, A Loan of Twenty-one Paintings from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden," 3 October-27 November 1983, cat.
ROYAL SCOTTISH MUSEUM, Edinburgh. ""Treasures of the Smithsonian, 11 August-4 November 1984.
MARY BOONE GALLERY, New York. "Clyfford Still," 13 October-10 November 1990.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Clyfford Still: Paintings 1944-1960," 21 June-16 September 2001, no. 26.
FONDATION BEYELER, Basel, Switzerland. "Action Painting," 27 January-12 May 2008, no. 52, color ill. p. 101.
CLYFFORD STILL MUSEUM, Denver. "Repeat/Recreate: Clyfford Still's 'Replicas'," 18 September 2015-10 January 2016, cat.
Published References
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 1968 Annual Report (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1968), p. 222.
DEMETRION, JAMES T. ed. Clyfford Still Paintings 1944-1960 (Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden with Yale University Press, 2001), no. 26.
KUNITZ, DANIEL. "Clyfford Still: The Importance of Being Earnest," The New Criterion (October 2001), pp. 39-43.
RATCLIFF, CARTER. "The Idea of Order in the Art of Clyfford Still," Art in America (December 2001), ill. p. 84.
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School
Abstract Expressionism (First Generation)
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
72.280
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
68 1/8 × 58 in. (173 × 147.2 cm)
