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Sam Gilliam

1933–2022

Washington-based painter whose staining, folding, and unstretched canvases expanded Color Field painting into sculptural space while resisting demands that Black abstraction be overtly representational.

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  • African American

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NGA and Studio Museum document Gilliam’s Washington Color School context, innovative unstretched canvases, and criticism he faced for not making overtly political Black art.

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