
Augustus John
Portrait of Wyn Henderson
n.d.
Not on View
Clyfford Still
May 1944
This early work by American Abstract Expressionists Clyfford Still was exhibited in the artist’s first solo exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim’s museum-gallery, Art of This Century in 1946. In the introduction to the exhibition's catalogue, Mark Rorhko wrote “For me, Still’s pictorial dramas are an extension of the Greek Persephone Myth.” It has been argued (by David Anfam) that Jamais depicts Persephone’s mother, Demeter, searching for her daughter, who has been abducted to the underworld by Hades. As the Goddess of Agriculture, Demeter’s quest devastates the harvest, corresponding to Still’s experience of the Dust Bowl in the American Great Plains in the 1930s.
On view
Artist | Clyfford Still |
Date | May 1944 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 165.2 x 82 cm |
Credit line | Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York) |
Accession | 76.2553 PG 153 |
Collection | Peggy Guggenheim Collection |
Type | Painting |
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On view
Augustus John
n.d.
Not on View
Unrecorded Madak artist
Early 20th century
Not on View
Carla Accardi
late 1960s
Not on View
Chuck Close
2003
Not on View