COURT GRANTS CLYFFORD STILL MUSEUM’S PETITION

FOR ONE-TIME RELEASE OF FOUR WORKS

FROM PATRICIA STILL ESTATE
Denver, CO (March 28, 2011) – A circuit court in Maryland has ordered a reformation of the will of
Patricia Alice Still, authorizing representatives of her estate to release four paintings to the City and
County of Denver. The ruling on March 24 allows the City and County of Denver, as the recipient of the
estate, to sell these four paintings prior to their accessioning by the Clyfford Still Museum. It further
requires that all proceeds from the sale be transferred to the Museum to support its endowment and
collection-related expenses.

The Clyfford Still Museum filed the petition for the release of these works on November 3, 2010, in
Maryland, where the courts have jurisdiction over Patricia Still’s estate. The personal representatives
(executors) of the Patricia Still estate did not object to the petition.

“We are grateful for the court’s ruling and for the support of the City and County of Denver. Our priority
now is to fulfill the charitable purposes of Mrs. Still’s will by opening the museum and making this
unprecedented collection available to the public,” said Dean Sobel, Director of the Clyfford Still
Museum.

The Museum and the City and County of Denver have a strong interest in keeping these paintings in the
public domain, and have selected the four works to complement one another as a grouping, so that they
could be sold together in a manner consistent with how Clyfford Still and his wife Patricia Still
distributed his works during their lifetimes. The sale of works from Patricia Still’s private collection is in
keeping with precedents established by Mrs. Still, who gave away, sold, or brought to auction 13 works in
her possession following Clyfford Still’s death in 1980, in order to support her collection and to preserve
the broad public legacy of her late husband’s work. The four works being released from the Patricia Still
estate includes a painting that Mrs. Still brought to auction in 1990, but did not sell at that time.

The Patricia Still estate was donated to the City and County of Denver in 2005, following the death of the
artist’s wife and one year after Denver was selected to receive the Clyfford Still estate. Included in the
Patricia Still estate are artworks bequeathed to Mrs. Still by her husband, as well as Still’s archive and
other documentation of the artist’s work.

The Clyfford Still Museum has raised a combined total of approximately $30 million to date for its
construction, operation, and endowment. The Museum is scheduled to open to the public in late 2011.

About The Clyfford Still Museum

The Clyfford Still Museum was founded to promote public and scholarly understanding of the late artist’s
work and legacy, through the presentation and preservation of the Clyfford Still and Patricia Still estates,
donated to the City of Denver in 2004 and 2005 respectively, and totaling approximately 2,400 artworks.
Considered one of the most important painters of the twentieth century, Still (1904-1980) was among the
first generation of Abstract Expressionist artists who developed a new, powerful approach to painting in
the years immediately following World War II. The Stills’ estates—now understood to contain 94
percent of the artist’s total output—as well as his extensive archive, have been sealed off from the public
since 1980.

The Clyfford Still Museum broke ground in December 2009 and is scheduled to open to the public in late
2011 in its new building, designed by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture and located in Denver,
Colorado. The new museum will be in the heart of the city’s Civic Center Cultural Complex, near the
Denver Art Museum and its new Daniel Libeskind-designed building, the Denver Public Library designed
by Michael Graves, and the new Colorado History Museum designed by David Tryba. For more
information about the Clyfford Still Museum, please visit www.clyffordstillmuseum.org.

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