Still was born in 1904 in Grandin, North Dakota and spent his childhood in Spokane, Washington and Bow Island in southern See more

Having developed his signature style in San Francisco between 1946 and 1950 while teaching at the California School of Fine Arts, Still is … See more

Still received the Award of Merit for Painting in 1972 from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, of which he became a member in … See more

• Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (33 paintings, 1937–1963
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (30 paintings, ca. 1936–1974)
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (12 paintings, 1943–1977) See more

Still married Lillian August Battan circa 1930. They had two daughters, born in 1939 and 1942. The couple separated in the late 1940s and divorced in 1954. In 1957, Still married Patricia Alice Garske, who had been one of his students at Washington State See more

In 1943, Still's first solo show took place at the San Francisco Museum of Art. In 1947, Jermayne MacAgy, assistant director of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, gave him a solo show there. The artist then declined all public exhibitions from 1952 … See more

Still wrote a will in 1978 that left a portion of his work, along with his archives, to his wife Patricia and stated: "I give and bequeath all the remaining works of art executed by me in my collection to an American city that will agree to build or assign and … See more