Editing Clyfford Still (section)

{{Short description|American painter (1904–1980)}}
{{Infobox artist
| name          = Clyfford Still
| image         = Clyfford Still.jpg
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| birth_name    = Clyfford Elmer Still
| birth_date    = {{birth date |1904|11|30}}
| birth_place   = [[Grandin, North Dakota]]
| death_date    = {{death date and age |1980|6|23|1904|11|30}}<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/07/06/archives/art-view-the-singularity-of-clyfford-still.html|title=ART VIEW; the Singularity of Clyfford Still|newspaper=The New York Times|date=6 July 1980|last1=Kramer|first1=Hilton}}</ref>
| death_place   = [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]]
| resting_place=Pipe Creek Church of the Brethren Cemetery, [[Union Bridge, Maryland]]
| nationality   = American
| field         = [[Painting]]
| spouse=Lillian August Battan Still (c. 1930 – late 1940s)<br />Patricia Alice Garske Still (1957–1980)
| training      = [[Spokane University]], [[Washington State University]]
| movement      = [[Abstract expressionism]], [[Color Field painting]]
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}}
'''Clyfford Still''' (November 30, 1904 &ndash; June 23, 1980) was an American [[Painting|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 has been credited with laying the groundwork for the movement, as his shift from representational to abstract painting occurred between 1938 and 1942, earlier than his colleagues like [[Jackson Pollock]] and [[Mark Rothko]], who continued to paint in figurative-[[surrealist]] styles well into the 1940s.<ref name=CSM>{{cite web|title=The Artist|url=http://clyffordstillmuseum.org/clyfford-still/|website=Clyfford Still Museum|access-date=21 October 2014}}</ref>