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Sam Gilliam
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Fan account of Sam Gilliam, a color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist.
1933-2022
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Coffee Thyme I https://collections.artsmia.org/art/58661/
Color run for published print
December 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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A Spring Thaw https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/a-spring-thaw
A Spring Thaw
December 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Coffee Thyme I https://collections.artsmia.org/art/58743/
Nearly empty composition featuring a small purple triangle composed of non-descript forms and superimposed over a plain white rectangle
December 6, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Coffee Thyme https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/coffee-thyme-1980
Coffee Thyme
December 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Baptistry https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/baptistry-1975
Baptistry
December 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Buoy Landscape I https://collections.artsmia.org/art/43181/
From a suite of five prints.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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April 4 https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/april-4-1969
April 4
December 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Stand https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/stand-1973
Stand
December 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Lattice IV https://collections.artsmia.org/art/58757/
From a suite of four prints.
December 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Tempo Series #2 https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/tempo-series-2-2010
Tempo Series #2
December 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Lattice I https://collections.artsmia.org/art/7694/
From a suite of four prints.
December 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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St. Albans https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/st-albans-1976
St. Albans
December 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Buoy Landscape III https://collections.artsmia.org/art/43173/
From a suite of five prints.
December 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Ruby and Ossie https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/62279/
Ruby and Ossie
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Lattice https://collections.artsmia.org/art/43142/
Final proof
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Blue Swirl https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/blue-swirl-1971
Blue Swirl
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Comet I https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/comet-i-1964
Comet I
December 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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A Spring Thaw https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/a-spring-thaw
A Spring Thaw
December 1, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Mars at Angles https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/mars-at-angles-1978
Mars at Angles
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Recitals https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/recitals-2009
Recitals
November 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Light Fan https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/light-fan-1966
Light Fan
November 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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Aviation 3 https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/aviation-3-1990
Aviation 3
November 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Buoy Landscape II https://collections.artsmia.org/art/95965/
geometric design; a variety of triangles in red, blue, yellow; large grey rectangle with one corner missing in center background; blue square center left
November 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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"A" and the Carpenter I https://www.artic.edu/artworks/45860/
In the early 1960s Sam Gilliam began to experiment with brushless painting—staining or dying his canvases rather than applying paint more traditionally, a technique associated at the time with Color Field painting. By the end of the decade he broke with tradition in another way, abandoning the taut, stretched canvas of typical easel painting to treat his canvases sculpturally—bunching, folding, or draping them in space. The fluidity of the cloth seems to echo the fluidity of the paint, and vice versa. A quintessential work like “A” and the Carpenter I is a painting on a grand scale and yet, like a stained drop cloth slung across two sawhorses, it summons the residues of an artist’s studio, or even the remainders of another kind of work site. Twentieth-Century Purchase Fund
November 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Pink Flutter https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/pink-flutter-1969
Pink Flutter
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM