Editing Clyfford Still (section)

==Biography==
Still was born in 1904 in [[Grandin, North Dakota]] and spent his childhood in [[Spokane, Washington]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-04-19 |title=Master of abstract expressionism had Spokane, Pullman roots |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/apr/19/still-life/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=Spokesman.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-11 |title=We the People: The Great Depression brought suffering to Spokane – but also – art |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/aug/11/we-the-people-the-great-depression-brought-sufferi/ |access-date=2025-05-12 |website=Spokesman.com |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Clyfford Still|url=http://www.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/bios/still-bio.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100122084928/http://www.phillipscollection.org/research/american_art/bios/still-bio.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 22, 2010|website=The Phillips Collection|access-date=21 October 2014}}</ref> He spent the summers of 1934 and 1935 at the Trask Foundation (now [[Yaddo]]) in [[Saratoga Springs]], New York.

In 1937, along with Washington State colleague Worth Griffin, Still co-founded the [[Nespelem (art)|Nespelem Art Colony]] that produced hundreds of portraits and landscapes depicting [[Colville Indian Reservation]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] life over the course of four summers.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.washingtonhistory.org/files/library/fall-2003-creighton.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2020-01-03 |archive-date=2016-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629194522/http://www.washingtonhistory.org/files/library/fall-2003-creighton.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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.

Mark Rothko, whom Still had met in California in 1943, introduced him to [[Peggy Guggenheim]], who gave him a solo exhibition at her gallery, [[The Art of This Century Gallery]], in early 1946. The following year Guggenheim closed her gallery and Still, along with Rothko and other Abstract Expressionists, joined the [[Betty Parsons]] gallery.

Still returned to San Francisco, where he became a highly influential professor at the [[California School of Fine Arts]] (now [[San Francisco Art Institute]]), teaching there from 1946 to 1950.<ref>''Clyfford Still,'' [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]], 1976, p.112</ref> He encouraged some of his students to open a gallery called Metart, which was short-lived but influential.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cummings |first=Paul |title=A Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists |publisher=St Martin's Press |year=1966 |location=New York |pages=281}}</ref> In 1950, he moved to New York City, where he lived most of the decade <ref>[[Lawrence Gowing]], ed., Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists, v.4 (Facts on File, 2005): 654.</ref> during the height of Abstract Expressionism, but during his time in New York, he also became increasingly critical of the art world. In the early 1950s, Still severed ties with commercial galleries. In 1961 he moved to a 22-acre farm near [[Westminster, Maryland|Westminster]], [[Maryland]], removing himself further from the art world.<ref>Maryland SDAT listing for Still Farm property http://sdatcert3.resiusa.org/rp_rewrite/details.aspx?AccountNumber=07%20032161%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&County=07&SearchType=STREET{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} retrieved 4 April 2013</ref> Still used a barn on the property as a studio during the warm weather months. In 1966, Still and his second wife purchased a 4,300-square-foot house at 312 Church Street in [[New Windsor, Maryland]], about eight miles from their farm, where he lived until his death.<ref name="Unyielding Will">{{Citation|url=http://www.5280.com/magazine/2011/11/clyfford-still?page=0,4|title=Clyfford Still's Unyielding Will|access-date=30 March 2013|author= Van Dyke, Jeffrey|date=November 2011|publisher=[[5280]]}}</ref><ref>Maryland SDAT listing for Still New Windsor House http://sdatcert3.resiusa.org/rp_rewrite/details.aspx?AccountNumber=11%20011365%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&County=07&SearchType=STREET{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} retrieved 30 March 2013</ref><ref name="Hidden Still">{{Citation|url=http://www.artnews.com/2009/01/01/revealing-the-hidden-clyfford-still/|title=Revealing the Hidden Clyfford Still|access-date=30 March 2013|author= Hochfield, Sylvia|date= 1 January 2009|publisher=[[ARTnews]]}}</ref>

[[File:Clyfford Still House New Windsor Maryland.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.2|[[New Windsor, Maryland]], home Clyfford Still shared with his wife Patricia from 1966 until his death in 1980]]