Clyfford Still : the late works / Dean Sobel and David Anfam ; forewords by Dorothea Rockburne and Alex Katz ; in association with the Clyfford Still Museum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sobel, Dean, author.

Anfam, David, author.

Contributor:

Rockburne, Dorothea, writer of foreword.

Katz, Alex, 1927- writer of foreword.

Clyfford Still Museum, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Still, Clyfford, 1904-1980--Exhibitions.

Still, Clyfford.

Still, Clyfford, 1904-1980.

Abstract expressionism--United States--20th century.

Abstract expressionism.

Painting, American--20th century--Exhibitions.

Painting, American.

Painting, Abstract--United States--Exhibitions.

Painting, Abstract.

Painters.

United States.

Painting, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions.

Painting, Modern.

Painters--United States--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

128 pages : color illustations ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Rizzoli Electra, [2020]

Summary:

This volume celebrates the powerful late works of Clyfford Still (1094-1980), the pioneer of Abstract Expressionism and one of the most influential and enigmatic painters of vanguard group, which included artists such as Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Willem De Kooning. The large-scale paintings of Still's late career are virtually unknown to the public and many are published here for the first time. This relevatory book investigates the paintings and drawings Still made after his move to rural Maryland in 1961. This marks a particularly fertile period for Still; here, he made over 375 works on paper before his death in 1980 at the age of 75. Given Still's especially reclusive posture later in life and the fact that none of the artworks in Still's estate were exhibited or made available to anyone before the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver in 2011, this publication of 40 paintings and 30 works on paper is especially meaningful. The publication also coincides with a landmark exhibition of these works at the Clyfford Still Museum. --adapted from jacket.

Contents:

Preface and acknowledgments / Dean Sobel

Forewords: Two artists on "Late Work" / Dorothea Rockburne and Alex Katz

Introduction: Clyfford Still in Maryland / Dean Sobel

Lateness: the art of Clyfford Still's final years / David Anfam

Plates

Notes:

Includes index.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "The Late Works : Clyfford Still in Maryland". Presented at the Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO, September 18, 2020-January 10, 2021.

ISBN:

9780847868605

0847868605

OCLC:

1205588635