Sam Gilliam (born November 30, 1933) is a color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist. Gilliam, an African American, is associated with the Washington Color School, a group of Washington, D.C. artists that developed a form of abstract art from color field painting in the 1950s and 1960s.

For the past twenty five years, Sam Gilliam has been internationally recognized as the foremost contemporary African American Color Field painter. He is most widely known for the large color stained canvases he draped and suspended from walls …

Following early experiments in color and form, Gilliam became best known for his Drape paintings, first developed in the late 60s and widely exhibited across the United States and internationally over the following decade. [4]

Sam Gilliam was one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. He emerged from the Washington, D.C. scene in the mid 1960s with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting.

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American artist Sam Gilliam (November 30, 1933 – June 25, 2022) produced thousands of paintings, sculptures, prints, and works of art in various mediums throughout his career. [1] Below are chronological, though incomplete, lists of works by Gilliam.

Sam Gilliam (b. 1933, d. 2022) is one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. He emerged from the Washington, D.C. scene in the mid-1960s with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting.

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Sam Gilliam (1933–2022) emerged from the Washington, D.C. scene in the mid-1960s with works that elaborated on and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting.

Sam Gilliam, a Washington, D.C. painter, who helped redefine abstract painting with his brightly colored and unstretched monumental canvases cascading from stairwells, gallery ceilings, and through facades of art museums, passed away on June 28th, 2022 at the age of 88.