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DIED. Betty Parsons, 82, discerning New York City art dealer who championed a stellar stable of abstract expressionists-Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still-in the post-World War II years when others scorned their works; of a stroke; in Southold...
...time, a fixture of the '50s, like James Dean, the beats or the vogue for Camusian outsiders. In later years, it was more honored in the breach than in the observance; nobody can go on reinventing himself forever, and some of the longer-lived survivors like Clyfford Still kept painting the same picture over and over again, while uttering jeremiads against conformity...
...DIED. Clyfford Still, 75, uncompromising American painter of gigantic, abstract expressionist canvases who was determined to pursue an American art form free from the "sterile conclusions of Western European decadence"; of cancer; in Baltimore...
...York, a full-dress Clyfford Still retrospective...
...past two decades, Clyfford Still has enjoyed a reputation as the Coriolanus of American art. No other living artist has so vociferously loathed the art world as a system. None has managed to keep a closer control over the fate of his work. Since the 1940s, when he emerged as one of the founding fathers of abstract expressionism, Still has jealously guarded his output, releasing few paintings to collectors, rarely showing in private galleries, insisting on conditions of display that few museums were prepared to meet. Consequently, his farm outside Westminster, Md., houses most of his immense oeuvre; and though...