District Of Columbia. 1891 - 1978
Non objective-optical imagery painting, teaching
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1933 Tupelo, Mississippi - 2022 District of Columbia. Known for: Abstract color field and drape painting, collage, graphics.
Abstract Color Field* painter Sam Gilliam was born in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1933, growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, where he received an MA in painting at the University of Louisville in 1961. He... Read full biography
Abstract Color Field* painter Sam Gilliam was born in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1933, growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, where he received an MA in painting at the University of Louisville in 1961. He received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at the University of Louisville in 1980 and... Read full biography
Abstract Color Field* painter Sam Gilliam was born in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1933, growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, where he received an MA in painting at the University of Louisville in 1961. He received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at the University of Louisville in 1980 and Northwestern University in 1990. Gilliam came to Washington, D.C. in 1962 to join the second generation of Washington Color Painters*. Like the first generation of the group, which included Morris Louis and... Read full biography
Abstract Color Field* painter Sam Gilliam was born in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1933, growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, where he received an MA in painting at the University of Louisville in 1961. He received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at the University of Louisville in 1980 and Northwestern University in 1990. Gilliam came to Washington, D.C. in 1962 to join the second generation of Washington Color Painters*. Like the first generation of the group, which included Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland, Gilliam has an interest in the qualities of color, applying acrylic* to unprimed canvas. From the mid-1960s, acrylics were poured over the canvases to create abstractions. Later canvases were without frames, and some canvases were... Read full biography
Abstract Color Field* painter Sam Gilliam was born in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1933, growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, where he received an MA in painting at the University of Louisville in 1961. He received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at the University of Louisville in 1980 and Northwestern University in 1990. Gilliam came to Washington, D.C. in 1962 to join the second generation of Washington Color Painters*. Like the first generation of the group, which included Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland, Gilliam has an interest in the qualities of color, applying acrylic* to unprimed canvas. From the mid-1960s, acrylics were poured over the canvases to create abstractions. Later canvases were without frames, and some canvases were even folded in 1968. Gilliam's bold colors on draped canvases are sometimes displayed as environmental pieces or wall pie... Read full biography
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New Jersey. 1930 - 2020
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New York, New Jersey. 1917 - 2000
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District Of Columbia, New York / Mexico. 1915 - 2012
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Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts / Italy. 1937 - 1966
Figurative expressionist painting, religion
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New York, Maine. 1924 - 2010
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Michigan, California, Pennsylvania / Italy. 1915 - 1978
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New York, Illinois / Germany. 1915 - 1994
Abstract expressionist painting, illustration
New York, Massachusetts. 1936 - 2024
Geometric minimal image painting, collage
New York, Massachusetts / Italy. 1913 - 2000
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