Clyfford Still, 1950 PH-272 , photo by Ben Blackwell (c) Clyfford Still Estate "You can turn the lights out. The paintings will carry their own fire,” said American Abstract-Expressionist Clyfford Still about his super-sized, flame-streaked canvases. It’s the artist’s fiery palette that’s the subject of a new show at Denver’s Clyfford Still Museum: Red/Yellow/Blue (and Black and White): Clyfford Still as Colorist from January 25 to May 12, 2013. Like much about this complex artist, the answers aren’t black and white. Over thirty of Still’s dramatic canvases are arranged in five sky-lit galleries, each devoted to one of his signature hues. Half the paintings have never been exhibited before -- part of a trove of some 800 works Still kept hidden for decades in a Maryland warehouse. The collection was finally revealed when the museum opened in 2011. For Still, black was a warm, generative color, rather than a symbol of death, and he often used it in large expanses. Though Read More