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  Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Still - Biography
Clyfford Still was born November 30, 1904, in Grandin, North Dakota.
When Still was in New York in 1945, Rothko introduced him to Peggy Guggenheim, who gave him a solo exhibition at her Art of This Century gallery in early 1946.
Solo exhibitions of Still’s paintings were presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1963 and at the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, in 1969–70.
www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/artist_bio_149.html   (380 words)

  
 Clyfford Still Online
Clyfford Still at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Clyfford Still at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
All images and text on this Clyfford Still page are copyright 2007 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/still_clyfford.html   (303 words)

  
  Clyfford Still   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Clyfford Still was something of a maverick in the art world.
Still wanted his paintings to be under his own personal control, and did not like them separated from one another or exhibited with other artists' work.
Still allowed them to purchase two paintings, and agreed to a rare retrospective exhibition that opened at the Gallery in 1959.
www.albrightknox.org /ArtStart/Still.htm   (749 words)

  
  Clyfford Still – 1950 B
Still’s 1950-B, with its field of fl, painted in thick impasto and punctuated by spots of orange and indigo represents his beliefs about the relation of the individual to the universe and is, as are most of Still’s paintings, a kind of self-portrait.
Still wanted his viewers to question their cultural and social contexts in approaching these huge questions and to enlarge their definition of self to include recognition of a collective primitive past that accounted for origins of culture.
Still was equally influenced by anthropological studies that explored myths and their creation as a way of understanding the relationship between the individual and the universe.
www.phillipscollection.org /american_art/artwork/Still-1950B.htm   (437 words)

  
 Clyfford Still Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Clyfford Still (1904-1980) was one of the pioneers of Abstract Expressionism, although throughout his life he chose isolation from other styles and most other artists.
Clyfford Still was born in 1904 in Grandin, North Dakota.
Still's work from the 1960s is soft, sensuous, and lyrical in comparison with that of two decades earlier.
www.bookrags.com /biography/clyfford-still   (855 words)

  
 Clyfford Still: Exhibitions on washingtonpost.com's City Guide
For Still, who was born in 1904 into a modest family of Western homesteaders, liking art at all, let alone making it, was quite a stretch.
Still was one of a small group of American pioneers who, in the years just after World War II, established abstraction as Modernism's dominant late mode.
Still was a crucial pioneer in his burning support for abstraction, and in many of the genre's devices.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/cityguide/profile?id=1045549&p=print   (1747 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for clyfford
Grandin, N.Dak. Still was a pioneer in the use of the mural-sized canvas.
The idea of order in the art of Clyfford Still: a survey of Still's massive paintings recently afforded Hirshhorn Museum viewers a rare chance to witness, in 39 works covering 16 prime years, the artist's paradoxical struggle--an effort to forge authoritative compositions without surrendering to conventional structural limits.
Clyfford Still: the importance of being earnest.(abstract expressionism)
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=clyfford   (767 words)

  
 Clyfford Still: the importance of being earnest by Daniel Kunitz
Clyfford Still: the importance of being earnest by Daniel Kunitz
Their substance lies in allusions to past artists, Still chief among them, and so, while their paintings look like his from a distance or in reproduction, in person, close up, they have none of the older artist’s depth and disturbing intensity.
Still said he “learned as a youth the price one pays for a father, a master, a Yahweh, or his contemporary substitute—An Institutional Culture.” As an adult, he fought his own idiosyncratic battle against the sort of institutional culture that might de-bone his art.
www.newcriterion.com /archive/20/oct01/still.htm   (2375 words)

  
 Clyfford Still - Grandfathers and Influences
Clyfford Still was something of a maverick in the art world.
Still wanted his paintings to be under his own personal control, and did not like them separated from one another or exhibited with other artists' work.
Still allowed them to purchase two paintings, and agreed to a rare retrospective exhibition that opened at the Gallery in 1959.
www.abstract-art.com /abstraction/l2_Grnfthrs_fldr/g040a_still_1957-d.html   (481 words)

  
 Clyfford Still   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Still denied that they were any of these things.
Clyfford Still fought hard for control over his life and his own creations.
Still felt that his art was more important than money, and people who asked to buy his paintings were often turned away unless he felt they wanted them for the right reasons.
www.albrightknox.org /ArtStart/sStill.html   (260 words)

  
 THE CLYFFORD STILL GALLERY   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Clyfford Still, his work described as "the epitome of Abstract Expressionism", was born 1904 in North Dakota.
Still, described by his contemporaries "as unbelievalby single minded, independent, proud, and reserved", executed absolute control over the fate of his work.
Still's belief that art history is not a "well" for artists to draw forth buckets of ideas and styles-limiting themselves to a tradition of preordained views and paradigms.
members.aol.com /Bobfranks/homepage/clyffordstill.html   (217 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Clyfford Still: Books: David Anfam,Neal Benezra,Brooks Adams,demetrion   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Clyfford Still (1904-1980), best known for his compelling abstract works with jagged fields and powerful expanses of color, stands among the giants of post-World War II art.
The focus of this exhibition is on a specific period in Clyfford Still's career-a protracted decade and a half between 1944 and 1960-when the artist's creativity burst forth and flowered in a way that was truly awe inspiring.
Clyfford Still is one of the giant figures of the art world and this book puts his paintings in a proper perspective.
www.amazon.com /Clyfford-Still-David-Anfam/dp/0300089694   (1548 words)

  
 Denver Plans To Host a Clyfford Still Museum | Art Knowledge News
Robert Motherwell described Still’s first solo show in New York in 1946 as “a bolt out of the blue.” Critics hailed the sheer physicality, soaring presence and soulful sublimity of his abstract pictures.
First came word in 2004 that his widow, Patricia Still, after decades spent spurning other metropolitan suitors, had chosen Denver as host of a Clyfford Still Museum, largely because of the overtures from the city’s ambitious mayor, John Hickenlooper.
Still crisscrossed the country from Spokane to San Francisco to Richmond, Va., to New York over the years to teach and to paint.
www.artknowledgenews.com /Clyfford_Still.html   (1082 words)

  
 Denver Daily News
Portland, Ore.-based Allied Works Architecture was chosen to design the Clyfford Still Museum, which will be located in the heart of the Civic Center Cultural Complex, slated for completion in 2009.
Still, who died in 1980 at the age of 75, is considered one of the most important painters of the 20th century.
The collection was bequeathed to the City of Denver in 2004, for display at the Clyfford Still Museum.
www.thedenverdailynews.com /?page=details&id=5485&t=Archive   (328 words)

  
 The Denver Post - Clyfford Still Museum names Oregon firm to build in DAM's shadow
Swayed by the firm's extensive experience in art-museum design and sensitivity to its mission, the Clyfford Still Museum has selected Allied Works Architecture of Portland, Ore., to design its future home next to the Denver Art Museum.
The Still project will be the fifth art museum it has worked on, including a renovation and expansion of the University of Michigan Museum of Art and a soon-to-be-completed addition to the Seattle Art Museum.
They also were impressed with Cloepfil's affinity for Still's art and his lifelong ties to the Northwest, where the artist studied and taught in the 1930s and early '40s.
test.denverpost.com /headlines/ci_4729439   (591 words)

  
 Clyfford Still ()
Publicado em artes e letras por seven em 20 nov 12:38 PM Clyfford E. Still foi um Expressionista Abstracto e um dos primeiros a fazer grandes paineis murais.
Ficou na sombra de nomes como Jackson Pollock ou Mark Rothko, que o achavam demasiado reservado por se manter à margem do sistema.
Tal como acontece com os demais artistas da Action Painting, o tema de Still é o processo de pintar em si mesmo.
blog.uncovering.org /archives/2004/11/clyfford_still.html   (210 words)

  
 Clyfford Still Museum - Welcome Message
In August 2004, the City of Denver announced it had been chosen to receive the artworks contained within the Clyfford Still Estate, created in 1980 upon the death of one of the most important painters of the twentieth century.
Still (1904-1980) was among the first generation of Abstract Expressionist artists who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II.
Removed from public view for over twenty-five years, these works will finally be revealed at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, Colorado, planned to open to the public in 2009.
www.denvergov.org /dephome.asp?depid=2152   (156 words)

  
 Clyfford Still (1904 - 1980) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Clyfford Still studied at Spokane University and graduated amidst the Great Depression in 1933.
Still moved to San Francisco in 1941 and taught at the California School of Fine Arts.
Clyfford Still - Painting, 1951 1951 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
wwar.com /masters/s/still-clyfford.html   (211 words)

  
 Clyfford Still: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
This book is published to accompany the first major exhibition of Still's work since his death in 1980.
Patricia Still, the artist's widow, contributes a chronology of his life liberally sprinkled with quotes from the artist himself.
Clyfford Still (1904-1980), best known for his compelling abstract works with jagged fields and powerful expanses of color, stands among the giants of post-World War II art.
www.halloween.com /halloween-books/free.php?in=us&asin=0300089694   (612 words)

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