Sam Gilliam, the first Black artist to ... movement centered in color field painting. Exploring Gilliam’s 1969 work “Swing,” the Smithsonian Institution described color field as “a style ...

Sam Gilliam, a Washington artist who helped redefine abstract painting by liberating canvas from its traditional framework and shaking it loose in lavish, paint-spattered folds cascading from ...

By Ted Loos When the painter Sam Gilliam died last weekend at age 88, he left behind pioneering artworks, particularly his draped canvases stained with blooms of color that forever changed the way ...

One of the most important and influential abstract visual artists in the U.S. has died: Sam Gilliam, a great colorist whose work influenced generations of artists, was 88 years old. Gilliam's ...

Gilliam established himself at the forefront of American abstraction while working as one of the leading instructors of D.C’s Washington Color School, a distinguished group of color field painters.

For an exhibition in 1998, the Kreeger Museum invited Sam Gilliam to take over. He could do whatever he wanted, as long as it related in some way to the modernist museum, a mansion-turned-jewel ...

Roger Catlin - Museums Correspondent Gilliam, 88, died June 25 in his studio, just miles from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, which recently opened a captivating new show ...

Sam Gilliam, the first Black artist to ... movement centered in color field painting. Exploring Gilliam’s 1969 work “Swing,” the Smithsonian Institution described color field as “a style ...

Sam Gilliam, the groundbreaking abstract artist known for his work with draped canvas, died Saturday at 88, the galleries that represented him confirmed in a joint statement on Monday.

By Roberta Smith Sam Gilliam, a pioneering abstract painter best known for his lusciously stained Drape paintings, which took his medium more fully into three-dimensions than any other artist of ...