Clyfford Still
PH-143 (1955-H)1955

On view:

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, floor 3

Artist or Maker: Clyfford Still
United States, New York, active New York, 1904-1980
Title: PH-143 (1955-H)
Place Made: United States
Date Made: 1955
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 113 1/4 × 154 in. (287.66 × 391.16 cm)
Credit Line: Anonymous gift, Los Angeles
Accession Number: M.91.89
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: The strikingly colored flat fields and compressed space of Clyfford Still’s surfaces are a landmark achievement of the Abstract Expressionist movement in the United States, which is characterized by its feverish pursuit of spiritual and personal expression. Using palette knives instead of brushes to apply thick layers of oil paint on a massive and soaring scale, Still imbued his paintings with a feeling of the sublime.
Selected Bibliography: Demetrion, James. T. Clyfford Still: Paintings 1944-1960. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001.