Still, Clyfford, 1904-1980

found: Clyfford Still, 1990:CIP t.p. (Clyfford Still) info from publisher (Clyfford Still lived from 1904 to 1980)

found: Grove art online, July 1, 2011(Still, Clyfford (E.); b. Nov. 30, 1904, Grandin, ND, d. June 23, 1980, Baltimore, MD; American painter)

found: Wikipedia, Sept. 08, 2014(Clyfford Still; Clyfford Elmer Still; born November 30, 1904 in Grandin, North Dakota; died June 23, 1980 in Maryland; painter, and one of the leading figures of Abstract Expressionism. Still's contemporaries included Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. Still's was a highly influential professor at the California School of Fine Arts, now known as the San Francisco Art Institute; he taught there from 1946-1950. In 2011, the Clyfford Still Museum opened in Denver, Colo.)

found: Wikipedia, viewed Nov. 15, 2024:Clyfford Still (Clyfford Still (November 30, 1904 - June 23, 1980) was an American painter, and one of the leading figures in the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in the years immediately following World War II. Still was born in 1904 in Grandin, North Dakota and spent his childhood in Spokane, Washington and Bow Island in southern Alberta, Canada. In 1925 he visited New York, briefly studying at the Art Students League. He attended Spokane University from 1926 to 1927 and returned in 1931 with a fellowship, graduating in 1933. That fall, he became a teaching fellow, then faculty member at Washington State College (now Washington State University), where he obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1935 and taught until 1941. He spent the summers of 1934 and 1935 at the Trask Foundation (now Yaddo) in Saratoga Springs, New York. In 1941 Still relocated to the San Francisco Bay area where he worked in various war industries while pursuing painting. He had his first solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art (now San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) in 1943. He taught at the Richmond Professional Institute (RPI), now Virginia Commonwealth University, from 1943 to 1945, then went to New York City.) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyfford_Still