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Clyfford Still

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Fan account of Clyfford Still, an American painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists. 1904-1980 Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 1h
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Untitled www.artic.edu/artworks/146991
In the late 1940s Clyfford Still, along with Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, originated the type of Abstract Expressionism known as color-field painting, a term used to describe very large canvases dominated by monumental expanses of intense, homogeneous color. Like most of Still’s mature work, Untitled is a sheer wall of paint, imposing and self-sustaining, that makes no concessions to conventional notions of beauty or pictorial illusionism. This painting’s textural effects give it an insistent, complex materiality. Dominated by blacks applied with both a trowel and brushes, the surface is by turns reflective and chalky, granular and smooth, feathery and leaden. These variegated black surfaces are even more emphatic because their continuity is broken by areas of blank canvas and white paint. Like veins in igneous rock, streaks of orange, yellow, and green paint are embedded in the black voids. Mediating between the light and dark masses are areas of crimson, heightened at the edges, as if inflamed, by bright orange.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund; Roy J. and Frances R. Friedman Endowment; through prior gift of Mrs. Henry C. Woods; gift of Lannan Foundation
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/u…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
1956-D www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/u…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
PH-21 www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/p…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1951-T No. 3 www.moma.org/collection/works/79371
Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/u…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
1944-G www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1938-N-No. 1 www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
1947-Y-No. 2 www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
PH-351 www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/p…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1944-N No. 1 www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1…
1944-N No. 1
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
1949-A-No.1 www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Untitled www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/u…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
PH-118 www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/p…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
1944-N No. 2 www.moma.org/collection/works/80198
The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
1936-7-No. 2 www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
1947-R-No. 1 www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Figure www.moma.org/collection/works/74531
Gift of Dorothy C. Miller
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
1949 No. 1 www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
1957-J No. 2 www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Untitled (formerly Self-Portrait) www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/u…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
1945-H www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
1947-H-No. 3 www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
1951-52 www.artic.edu/artworks/15569
In the late 1940s, Clyfford Still, along with Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, originated the type of Abstract Expressionism known as Field Painting, a term used to describe large canvases dominated by one uniform color or a few colors closely related in hue and value. In contrast to Newman and Rothko, who usually applied paint thinly and uniformly, Still used a palette knife, creating textural effects that give the surface a complex, nearly sculptural sense of materiality. Named after the years of its creation, 1951–52 is a rare, nearly all-black work in the artist’s oeuvre. A vertical white line to the right of center and a thin streak of red-orange along the left side provide the sole interruptions in the black field. The subtle modulations of texture and finish support the artist’s claim that "I do not oversimplify—in fact, I revel in the extra complex."

Wirt D. Walker Fund; gift of John Stephan
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Self-Portrait (PH-382) www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/s…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
1947-Y-No. 2 www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/1…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
PH-385 (1949 No. 1) www.wikiart.org/en/clyfford-still/p…
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Clyfford Still @cstill.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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