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Clyfford Still 1945 K 1945 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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Clyfford Still 1946 H (Indian Red and Black) 1946 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Clyfford Still September 1946 1946 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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Clyfford Still January 1947 1947 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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Clyfford Still 1947-8 A 1947-48 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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Clyfford Still 1947-8 W No. 2 1947-48 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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Clyfford Still January 1948 1948 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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Clyfford Still July 1948 1948 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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Clyfford Still 1950 B 1950 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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Clyfford Still Untitled 1950 oil on canvas Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
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Clyfford Still October 1950 1950 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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Clyfford Still 1951 E 1951 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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Clyfford Still 1952 No. 2 1952 oil on canvas National Gallery of Australia, Canberra |
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Clyfford Still 1953 1953 oil on canvas Tate Modern, London |
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Clyfford Still PH 143 1955 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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Clyfford Still Untitled 1956 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Clyfford Still 1957 D No. 1 1957 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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Clyfford Still 1958 1958 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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Clyfford Still April 1962 1962 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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Clyfford Still 1963 A 1963 oil on canvas Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York |
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Clyfford Still Untitled 1964 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
Sunset
At the same time as the sun's setting,
a farm worker's burning dead leaves.
It's nothing, this fire.
It's a small thing, controlled,
It's a small thing, controlled,
like a family run by a dictator.
Still, when it blazes up, the farm worker disappears;
from the road, he's invisible.
Compared to the sun, all the fires here
are short-lived, amateurish –
they end when the leaves are gone.
Then the farm worker reappears, raking the ashes.
But the death is real.
As though the sun's done what it came to do,
made the field grow, then
inspired the burning of earth.
So it can set now.
– Louise Glück (2009)