First looks: Brad Cloepfil’s Clyfford Still Museum

By: Stephanie Basalyga//September 6, 2011//

First looks: Brad Cloepfil’s Clyfford Still Museum

Stephanie Basalyga//September 6, 2011//

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_MG_8639_FINAL — Artinfo is sharing the first photos of Portland architect Brad Cloepfil's design of the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver. Photograph by Jeremy Bittermann/Image Courtesy the Clyfford Still Museum

Artinfo has a of Portland architect Brad Cloepfil‘s latest work 鈥� the in Denver.

The museum, slated to open Nov. 19, will house 94 percent of the work produced by . The abstract impressionist painter had a聽 reputation for being difficult and controlling, especially when it came to how his work was exhibited and sold.

Still died in 1980, so there’s no way of knowing what the cranky curmudgeon of an artist would have thought of Cloepfil’s design. But Artinfo seems to like what it sees, describing the end result as a 鈥渟ensitive building 鈥� filling an important space in the history of American art.鈥�