About the Artwork
Untitled 1951-T, No. 2
1951
Clyfford Still
1904 - 1980
American
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 93 1/2 × 82 × 1 1/2 inches (237.5 × 208.3 × 3.8 cm)
Paintings
Contemporary Art after 1950
Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
65.310
Non-commercial all standard museum
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Provenance
The artist;Alfonso Ossorio (East Hampton, New York, USA);
Leo Castelli (New York, New York, USA);
1961-1965, Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Scull (Great Neck, New York, USA) [Scull inventory number 366.61]
1965, sold (Sotheby's, New York, 13 October 1965);
purchased for $29,000 by (J.L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1965-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists. Exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, 1961, p. 75, no. 57 (ill.).
ARTnews (November 1961): 34 (ill.).
Art International V/10 (December 1961): 29 (ill.).
Vogue (July 1964): 121 (color ill.).
Twenty Contemporary American Paintings (sales catalogue). New York: Parke-Bernet, October 13, 1965, no. 19, p. 36 (color ill.).
The W. Hawkins Ferry Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1966, no. 42 (color ill.).
New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1969, p. 323, no. 391 (ill.).
DIA Handbook, 1971, p. 183.
Wilmerding, J., ed. The Genius of American Painting. London, 1973, p. 286 (ill.).
Bulletin of the DIA 54, no. 4 (1976): 189, no. 7.
Restany, P. L’Avenutre de L’art Abstrait, de l’esthetique a l’ethique, La Grande Histoire de la Peinture Moderne. Paris, 1982, p. 25, (color ill.).
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© Clyfford Still, Courtesy of The Clyfford Still Estate
Clyfford Still, Untitled 1951-T, No. 2, 1951, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, 65.310.
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