Clyfford Still Housed

The late Clyfford Still was a grumpy, self-imposed isolationist who hoarded his paintings, told collectors which works they would be buying and once took back one of his paintings from a patron by slashing it out of its frame. One reviewer dubbed him the Unabomber of Abstract Expressionism.

Contemporaries still remember how Still for years refused to exhibit his work in New York because it was "too corrupt" before agreeing to a 1980 exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - after it allowed him to hang his own work and curate the showing. For all of his attitude, though, there is no questioning the wonder of his jagged-looking, mural sized works filled with bold colors and heavy strokes. Jackson Pollock once said: "Still makes the rest of us look academic."
Now the 750 paintings in his estate along with 1,300 pastels will be housed in a new $24m museum in Denver.
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