A great free joy surges through me when I work... with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes.

In 1966 Still and his wife purchased a large 4300 square foot house at 312 Church Street in New Windsor Maryland about 8 miles from their farm primarily to store his paintings. Most of us were still working through images. In December 2011 a visitor to the museum was accused of causing $10000 worth of damage to Still's 1957-J no.

Clyfford Still (November 30 1904 – June 23 1980) was an American painter and one of the leading figures of Abstract Expressionism.