Sam Gilliam was a famous American abstract painter known for his suspended canvases, soaked in acrylic paint. As a young ...

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 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 ...

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is presenting Bienvenue: African American Artists in France, a historical survey of seventeen Black American artists who lived and worked in France from the late nineteenth ...

Gilliam helped keep many of its institutions afloat over the years, and vice versa. “Sam was always the first name in art in Washington, no matter when a person would have asked the question ...

Photo by Ron Blunt. The artist’s final solo exhibition, “Sam Gilliam: Full Circle,” will be on display at the Hirshhorn until September 11. The exhibit shows his most recent artwork, round paintings ...

Anyone who has visited a major art museum has encountered one. Photos: Sam Gilliam, one of the country’s most renowned Black artists, dies at 88 Sometimes they are suspended from the ceiling ...

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 ...

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

Launching in March 2025 and made possible by the support of the Sam Gilliam Foundation, the series will welcome prominent artists and speakers to the university's Washington D.C. hub to reflect on the ...

London’s Tate Modern featured Gilliam’s 1970 work, “Carousel Change,” in an exhibit titled “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” in 2017. “It is no accident that Sam’s ...