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Clyfford Still

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Clyfford E. Still (1904 - 1980) was active/lived in Maryland, New York, North Dakota.  Clyfford Still is known for Abstract expressionist and modernist figure painting.

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 The following information was published in the Washington Post, June 15, 2001:

"Cantankerous Clyfford Still's Palette of Green and Black", by Katharine Kuh

The abstract expressionist painter Clyfford Still had few friends in the art world, but the late critic Katharine Kuh was one of them. This essay was adapted from a book of reminiscences Kuh was working on at her death in 1994.

Clyfford Still was an outspoken man periodically tormented by repressed fury. He was far from easy to get along with. Most dealers, museum personnel and colleagues eventually bowed out or more likely were booted out by him. He chose to isolate himself from an art world he despised, yet he and I remained friends without a break in our long association. No doubt my unbounded admiration for his paintings was largely responsible for such staying power.

At times I found Still's writings on art a bit unhinged, as when he insisted that the Armory Show was a dumping ground for t   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 19393 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Clyfford Still

   Publications  Book References:  170
Magazine References:  18

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18 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Clyfford Still
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Auction in the air December 2004 Editors, Art + Auction Yes
Art in America Artworld October 2004 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTFORUM Pop Art October 2004 Greenberg, C & Meyer, J (intro Yes
ARTnews Bubbling Over in Talent September 2004 Baker, Kenneth Yes
Art & Antiques Another World September 2004 Gomez, Edward Yes
Art-Talk Auctions: Post War and Contemporary June 2004 Editors, Art Talk Yes
Art in America Front Page January 2004 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTnews Art Market January 2004 Editors, ARTnews No
ARTnews National News March 2003 Editors, Artnews Yes
ARTnews Portrait of the Art World October 2002 Editors, ARTnews No
Art in America The Idea of Order in the Art of Cly December 2001 Ratcliff, Carter No
ARTnews Reviews September 2001 Editors, ARTnews Yes
ARTFORUM Still Against Himself July 2001 Cooper, Harry Yes
ARTFORUM Preview May 2001 Editors Yes
Art in America Bay Area Bravura September 1996 Duncan, Michael Yes
Art & Antiques Expanding the Ab-Ex Revolution September 1996 Gomez, Edward M Yes
ARTnews Vasari Diary May 1996 Editors, Art News Yes
ARTnews Still waiting and waiting and February 1995 Decker, Andrew Yes
170 Book References for Clyfford Still
Year Author Title Pages Color
2016 Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 360 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Shea, Patricia (Editor) Picasso to Pop: The Richard Weisman Collection 124 No
2001 Siedell, Daniel A. American Paintings from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery: An Institutional History in Pictures
(Exhibition catalog)		 9 Yes
2000 Golding, John Paths to the Absolute 240 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Passantino, Erika D (editor) The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making 819 Yes
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1998 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media 560 Yes
1997 Cernuschi, Claude Not Illustration but the Equivalent A Cognitive Approach to Abstract Expressionism 172 No
1997 Lucie-Smith, Edward Visual Arts in the 20th Century 400 Yes
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Demetrion, James T (Introduction) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art 166 Yes
1996 Hopps, Walter (others) American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art 320 Yes
1996 Ratcliff, Carter The Fate of a Gesture Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art 352 Yes
1996 Wood, James N/T Edelstein The Art Institute of Chicago Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture 160 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1995 Fuchs, Rudi/Adam D Weinberg Views from Abroad European Perspectives on American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 127 Yes
1995 Peacock, Henry W Art as Expression 232 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1993 Joachimides, Christos (others) American Art in the 20th Century Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993
(Exhibition catalog)		 490 Yes
1993 Leja, Michael Reframing Abstract Expression Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s 392 No
1993 Thistlewood, David (editor) American Abstract Expressionism
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 No
1992 Kellein, Thomas (editor) Clyfford Still Buffalo and San Francisco Collections 176 Yes
1992 Kingsley, April The Turning Point Abstract Expression and the Transformation of American Art 416 Yes
1992 Oldenburg, Richard/W Rubin The William S Paley Collection Museum of Modern Art 180 Yes
1992 Seitz, William C Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970 250 Yes
1992 Wood, Paul (others) Modernism in Dispute Art Since the Forties 267 Yes
1991 Hall, Lee Betty Parsons Artist, Dealer, Collector 192 Yes
1991 Hoffman, Katherine Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945 400 Yes
1991 Murken, Axel/Christa Murken Von der Avantgarde bis zur Postmoderne/die Malerei des 20 Jahrhunderts 358 Yes
1991 Polcari, Stephen Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience 408 Yes
1991 Rosenblum, Robert (intro) The Landscape in Twentieth Century American Art 174 Yes
1991 Wheeler, Daniel Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present 344 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro) American Painting 319 Yes
1990 Paulson, Ronald Figure and Abstraction 283 No
1990 Ross, Clifford Abstract Expressionism/Creators and Critics/An Anthology 304 Yes
1990 Shapiro, David and Cecile Abstract Expressionism 442 No
1989 Lynton, Norbert The Story of Modern Art 400 Yes
1989 Mackie, Alwynne Art/Talk Theory and Practice in Abstract Expression 301 No
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Read, Herbert A Concise History of Modern Painting 418 Yes
1987 Auping, Michael Abstract Expressionism The Critical Developments
(Exhibition catalog)		 302 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Levin, Gail Twentieth Century American Painting Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection 407 Yes
1987 Sandler, Irving The Empire State Collection Art for the Public 214 Yes
1987 Schultz, Douglas (Intro) 125 Masterpieces: From the Collection of Albright-Knox 264 Yes
1986 Adams, Celeste Marie America: Art and the West (Australian exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)		 130 Yes
1986 Hunter, Sam An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 269 Yes
1986 Munson Williams-Proctor Inst Two Hundred Years of American Art 101 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Rose, Barbara American Painting: The Twentieth Century (Second edition) 170 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Albright, Thomas Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History 349 Yes
1985 Ashton, Dore (Editor) Twentieth Century Artists on Art 302 No
1985 Champa, Kermit S. (Intro); Nancy Versaci (Essay) Flying Tigers: Painting and Sculpture in New York, 1939-1946
(Exhibition catalog)		 142 No
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Ecole Nationale/Beaux-Arts Cinquante Ans de Dessins Americai 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 290 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Kramer, Hilton The Revenge of the Philistines Art and Culture 1972-1984 445 No
1985 Miller, Dorothy C With an Eye to American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 16 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Bromberg, Anne R Dallas Museum of Art Selected Works 219 Yes
1984 Clark-Langager, Sarah Order and Enigma
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 No
1984 DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How 320 No
1984 Hunter, Sam The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection 599 Yes
1984 Johns, Elizabeth; William Elder III, Josephine Withers, et all Maryland: 350 Years of Art & Architecture (University of Maryland Architecture Department Art Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)		 248 No
1984 Lucie-Smith, Edward Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition 288 Yes
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1984 Royal Academy of Arts Modern Masters from the Thyssen Bornemisza Collection 210 Yes
1984 Wilson, William California Museums The Los Angeles Times Book of 288 Yes
1983 Brown, Milton W 100 Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections Washington D C 240 Yes
1983 Museum of Contemporary Art The First Show (1940-1980) Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 293 Yes
1982 Ashton, Dore American Art Since 1945 224 Yes
1982 Czestochowski, Joseph S The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings 184 Yes
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 301 Yes
1981 Buettner Stewart American Art Theory 1945-1970 213 No
1981 Lieberman, William (editor) An American Choice Muriel Kallis Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 167 Yes
1981 Myers, John Bernard Tracking the Marvelous A Life in the New York Art World 285 No
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Russell, John The Meanings of Modern Art 429 Yes
1981 Vogt, Paul Contemporary, Painting 134 Yes
1980 Hibbard, Howard The Metropolitan Museum of Art 592 Yes
1980 Hughes, Robert Shock of the New: The Hundred Years History of American Art Its Rise, Dazzling Achievement, Its Fall 423 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 O'Neill, John P (editor) Clyfford Still
(Exhibition catalog)		 221 Yes
1979 Taylor, Joshua C The Fine Arts in America 264 No
1978 Hobbs, Robert/Gail Levin Abstract Expression The Formative Years
(Exhibition catalog)		 140 Yes
1978 Sandler, Irving The New York School The Painters & Sculptors of the Fifties 366 Yes
1978 Waldman, Diane Mark Rothko, 1903-1970 A Retrospective
(Exhibition catalog)		 296 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 New York Graphic Society New York School The First Generation 228 Yes
1977 Prown, Jules/Barbara Rose American Painting From the Colonial Period to the Present 277 Yes
1976 Albright-Knox Art Gallery Heritage and Horizon American Painting 1776-1976
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1976 Gottlieb, Carla Beyond Modern Art 434 No
1976 Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776 208 Yes
1976 McShine, Kynaston The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800-1950 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 178 Yes
1976 San Francisco Mus Modern Art Painting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era 272 Yes
1976 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum Twentieth Century American Drawin Three Avant-Garde Generations
(Exhibition catalog)		 125 Yes
1976 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum Acquisition Priorities Aspects of Postwar Painting in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1975 Alloway, Lawrence Topics in American Art Since 1945 283 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Legg, Alicia American Art Since 1945 From the Collection of MOMA 84 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Carmean, E A Jr The Great Decade of American Abstraction
(Exhibition catalog)		 138 Yes
1974 Dallas Museum of Fine Art Poets of the Cities New York and San Francisco 1950-1965
(Exhibition catalog)		 174 No
1974 Davidson, Abraham A The Story of American Painting 168 Yes
1974 Plagens, Peter Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast 200 Yes
1974 Richardson, Tony/Nikos Stangos Concepts of Modern Art 355 No
1973 Bennett, Ian A History of American Painting 240 Yes
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 Franc, Helen M An Invitation to See 125 Paintings from the MOMA 159 Yes
1973 Kozloff, Max (intro) 25 Years of American Painting 1948-1973
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1973 McChesney, Mary Fuller A Period of Exploration San Francisco 1945-1950 91 Yes
1973 McClanathan, Richard Art in America A Brief History 216 Yes
1973 Van Der Marck, Jan American Art Third Quarter Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 138 Yes
1973 Wilmerding, John The Genius of American Painting 352 Yes
1972 Ashton, Dore The New York School A Cultural Reckoning 246 No
1972 Barr, Alfred/ W Rubin Three Generations of 20th Century Art Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection, MOMA 231 Yes
1972 Gruen, John The Party's Over Now Reminiscences of the Fifties (New York) 282 No
1972 Hunter, Sam American Art of the 20th Century 487 Yes
1972 Sandler, Irving (intro) Contemporary Art 1942-72 479 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Corcoran Gallery of Art Thirty-Second Biennial Exhibition Contemporary American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 79 No
1970 Boston University American Artists of the 1960's School of Fine Arts, Centenial Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1970 Rose, Barbara American Painting The Twentieth Century 116 No
1970 Sandler, Irving The Triumph of American Painting: A History of Abstract Expression 301 No
1970 Time-Life Books, Editors American Painting 1900-1970 192 Yes
1969 Eindhoven, Abbemuseum Kompas 4 Westkust USA/West Coast USA
(Exhibition catalog)		 50 Yes
1969 Geldzahler, Henry New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970
(Exhibition catalog)		 494 Yes
1969 Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Clyfford Still
(Exhibition catalog)		 100 Yes
1968 Finch College Museum of Art Betty Parsons' Private Collection 24 No
1968 Goosen, E C Art of the Real U S A 1948-1968 64 Yes
1967 Artist in America, Editors The Artist in America 256 Yes
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1967 Tokyo, Museum of Modern Art Two Decades of American Painting Gendai Amerika Kaiga Ten 81 Yes
1966 Goodrich, Lloyd Three Centuries of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1966 Green, Samuel M American Art A Historical Survey 706 No
1966 Hunter, Sam (chapter on US) New Art Around the World 510 Yes
1966 Kuh, Katherine/Ethel Moore Clyfford Still Thirty-Three Paintings in the Albright Knox Gallery 87 Yes
1966 Pellegrini, Aldo New Tendencies in Art 320 Yes
1966 Taylor, Joshua C The W Hawkins Ferry Collection Detroit Institute of Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1965 Los Angeles County Museum New York School-First Generation Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s 252 Yes
1963 Brandeis University New Directions in American Painting: A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1963 Richardson, Edgar P A Short History of Painting in America 347 Yes
1962 Ashton, Dore The Unknown Shore A View of Contemporary Art 265 No
1962 Hunter, Sam American Art Since 1950 A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 83 Yes
1961 Museum of Modern Art Collection of Mr & Mrs Ben Heller
(Exhibition catalog)		 44 Yes
1961 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists
(Exhibition catalog)		 1961 No
1960 Read, Herbert Art Now An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting 326 Yes
1960 Walker Art Center 60 American Painters 1960 Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties
(Exhibition catalog)		 78 Yes
1959 Musee National D'Art Moderne Jackson Pollock et la Nouvelle Peinture Americaine
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1958 Museum of Modern Art Die neue amerikanische Malerei The New American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 50 No
1958 Museum of Modern Art La Nouvelle Peinture Americaine The New American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 88 Yes
1957 Seuphor, Michel Dictionary of Abstract Painting with a History of Abstract Painting 305 Yes
1956 Tate Gallery Modern Art in the United States Selection from MOMA New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1955 Museum of Modern Art El Arte Moderno en Los Estados Unidos (Barcelona exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1952 Miller, Dorothy (editor) 15 Americans
(Exhibition catalog)		 47 No
1948 Editor, Art Institute of Chicago Fifty-Ninth Annual American Exhibition-Water Colors and Drawing 20 Yes
1940 IBM Collection Contemporary Art of the U S (Golden Gate Exposition1940)
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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