Object Details
- Gallery Label
- Clyfford Still often worked using a painter's knife, creating surfaces that are thickly slathered and carved rather than brushed. He was one of the first artists in the United States to discard descriptive titles, using a combination of dates and letters to identify his works instead. He wanted viewers to approach his paintings without preconceptions. "I want no allusions to interfere with or assist the spectator," he stated. "I want [the viewer] to be on [their] own."
- What do you see in the jagged shapes and rich color of 1946-H?
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Clyfford Still, born Grandin, ND 1904-died Baltimore, MD 1980
- Date
- 1946
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Vincent Melzac Collection through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 78 1/4 x 68 3/8 in. (198.8 x 173.7 cm.)
- Type
- Painting
