Five ghostly figures, including one holding an apple, stand behind a kneeling woman in this artist's unusually realistic PH-76.
Supposedly, when this artist was a child, his father Elmer tied rope around his ankles and lowered him into a well in Bow Island, Alberta. This painter co-founded an artist's colony at the Coleville Indian Reservation, where he made Indian Houses, Nespelem. Barbara Ramsay, a conservator, estimates that about 10% of this artist's paintings suffer from peeling paint, partly caused when this artist "practices his stabbing" on his canvases. Five ghostly figures, including one holding an apple, stand behind a kneeling woman in this artist's unusually realistic PH-76. The largest collection of the paintings of this artist can be found in a namesake museum in Denver. Like Josef Albers, this artist used a palette-knife to apply thick paint to create jagged, amorphous shapes. 1957-D No.1 is one of the characteristic color-field works of, for 10 points, what artist best known for his black and yellow paintings?
Supposedly, when this artist was a child, his father Elmer tied rope around his ankles and lowered him into a well in Bow Island, Alberta.
Clyfford Still