Sam Gilliam was one of the most celebrated black artists of his generation. Over a career of more than 60 years, he expanded the boundaries of painting on canvas. He died Saturday at the age of 88.

If you were a Washington, DC public school student in the early 1960s, your art teacher might have been Alma Thomas. . . or Sam Gilliam.Both represent a tradition of artist-art educators in DC public ...

The work of late artist Sam Gilliam will be presented across two galleries — Pace Gallery in New York and David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles — for an exhibition titled “The Last Five ...

Sam Gilliam, Light Depth, 1969. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy Corcoran Gallery of Art. Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund), 2018. Though Sam became a ...

Sam Gilliam, the first Black artist to represent the US pavilion at the Venice Biennale, has died at the age of 88. The American abstract artist died at home in Washington, DC, on Saturday, David ...

From Model to a Rainbow, Sam Gilliam (2011) on display at Takoma Station. Photo courtesy of Flickr user, art around. One of Gilliam’s mosaic paintings, “From Model to Rainbow,” adorns a wall in Takoma ...

Dia and the Sam Gilliam Foundationannounced today that Ibrahim Mahama has been selected to receive the inaugural Sam Gilliam Award, which includes a $75,000 gift and the presentation of a public ...

WASHINGTON — Throughout the 20th century, more than a few radical artists attacked the canvas. They ripped it from the frame, sliced it with a knife, burned holes into it ...

American artist Sam Gilliam passed away Saturday, June 25, 2022. He expressed visibility and agency in alternative ways, challenging the role of Black history as a requirement in Black art.

Sam Gilliam Jr was born on 30 November 1933, the seventh of eight children. His father was a carpenter and his mother was a seamstress. “I learned to draw quite early,” Gilliam once told arts ...

Check out Aaron Payne’s appraisal of a 1974 Sam Gilliam "June 5" acrylic painting in Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms, Hour 2. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and ...

Sam Gilliam, the first Black artist to represent the US pavilion at the Venice Biennale, has died at the age of 88. The American abstract artist died at home in Washington, DC, on Saturday, David ...