DENVER, CO.- The Clyfford Still Museum launched Clyfford Still Online (CSO), a new comprehensive web resource that significantly increases access to Clyfford Still’s art and archives, earlier today. The Museum previously offered multiple platforms for the public and researchers to access the collections, but having more than one site hindered the Museum’s ability to connect Still’s art and archival materials.

Now, more than 45 years after Still’s death, CSO brings Still’s art, both at the Clyfford Still Museum and in external collections, and archival materials together into a single, unified digital platform designed for researchers, museum professionals, scholars, educators, students, and enthusiasts.

The Museum has worked since its inception in 2011 to inventory, research, and catalog its collections. CSO is the culmination of those efforts, making the rich, previously unknown relationships that exist between objects, exhibitions, organizations, and people accessible. The online resource enables the artist’s vision to be experienced holistically by the public, aligning with Still’s intentions for how viewers engage with his art.

Each object record displays key details, including its history and relationships to other objects. Art records include deep-zoom images, enabling users to view details and artwork surfaces. They also feature a “Perspectives” field, which situates scholarly critiques of artworks alongside community and youth responses to illustrate CSM’s broad view of expertise, provide a robust tool for new forms of research, and demonstrate the meaningful ways that Still’s art continues to propagate innovative thought across disciplines over time.

“Through years of research and digital initiatives, our collections are now available anywhere in the world at any time,” says Katherine Wilson, director of collections at the Still. “CSO positions Still’s art, archives, and biography together. The heart of the site is the Art and Archives section, which unites the two collections for the first time, fostering exploration between Still’s life and work.”

The site offers users multiple pathways and exploration methods, including a timeline that allows them to explore Still’s chronology in either a linear or three-dimensional immersive format. An interactive map encourages users to discover locations where Still created and exhibited his work over the years, as well as artworks located in public collections around the world, from Italy to Japan and everywhere in between.

Additionally, the “Stories” section presents a curated, ever-evolving compilation of content on a wide range of perspectives. Written by Museum staff, community members, scholars, conservators, and artists, each story offers behind-the-scenes insights and new pathways for connectivity inspired by Still’s life and art. These features enable the dissemination of content in diverse and creative ways, inviting far-reaching and broad engagement.

CSO also offers users the opportunity to customize their own experiences through the “My Collections” feature. This section allows users to create a login and save their favorite art and archival objects. Users can add notes about each object, which they can download or share, view as a slideshow, and compare selections side by side in full-size or true-size view.

Currently, the site includes roughly 94 percent of the artist’s total artistic output and 10 percent of the Museum’s archives. The Museum team will continually update this accessible digital resource with corrections and additions. The CSO is not a catalogue raisonné of Still’s work, but it offers a glimpse into the current state of the project’s research and will ultimately serve as a key component in the project.