Medium/Discipline: Painting
Place of Death: New Windsor, Maryland
Maryland Affiliation: Active while in residence
Subject Headings: Still, Clyfford E.
Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: White
Biography: A painter active in New York City among fellow Abstract Expressionists after World War II, Clyfford Still is a major figure in American art history. Abstract Expressionism was a movement inspired in part by artists seeking to create a uniquely American aesthetic entirely independent of European Modernist influence. While Still was ideologically and aesthetically aligned with the approach of Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson Pollock (a gestural abstract expressionist) and Mark Rothko (a color field abstract expressionist), researchers say that he was a loner in the tradition of many modern artists. Still's solitary, rural life in Westminster, Maryland, may have fulfilled his desire to maintain a purity of artistic vision after having worked among so many artists in the Abstract Expressionist circle. He came to Westminster, Maryland from New York City in 1961 and moved to nearby New Windsor, Maryland where he died.
Selected References: Dean, Mary A. [et al.] 350 Years of Art & Architecture in Maryland (College Park : Art Gallery, and Gallery of the School of Architecture, University of Maryland), 1984.
Maryland Institutions Holding Artworks: Baltimore Museum of Art
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