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

Sam Gilliam/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New ... Studio These efforts hovered between painting and sculpture, while his techniques evoked everything from Jackson Pollock’s drips to tie-dye.

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 ...

He made ornate miniatures and eye-catching larger pieces, painstakingly printing one color at a time while developing techniques to ... Jacob Lawrence and Sam Gilliam — while turning his ...

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 ...

The abstract-art pioneer Sam Gilliam died Saturday at his home in DC. Beauty Pill frontman Chad Clark remembers his former neighbor and inspiration. By wild fortuitous luck, for a couple years, Sam ...

Pioneering abstract artist Sam Gilliam, known for using unstretched canvases to create paintings and sculpture, died on June 25 at age 88. The galleries representing his work, David Kordansky and ...

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 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 ...

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.