Source interpretationhigh certainty
series and context
Studio Museum identifies April 4, (Part III) as part of Gilliam’s Martin Luther King Jr. series begun after King’s assassination, and explains the work through stained/folded abstraction.
- Catalog medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Collection
- The Studio Museum in Harlem
- Accession
- 1984.2
Physical record
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- Metric
- 289.6 × 53.3 × 10.2 cm
- Approx. imperial
- 9 ft 6 in × 1 ft 9 in × 0 ft 4 in
- Width / 170 cm reference
- 0.31×
- Height / 170 cm reference
- 1.7×
- Depth / 170 cm reference
- 0.06×
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- Martin Luther King Jr. seriesseries · artwork part of series
- Civil-rights-era artistic context, 1954–1968historical context · artwork contextualized by
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Direct record sources
- Sam Gilliam. April 4, (Part III). 1968museum collection · authority tier 1 · verified 2026-09-09Open institutional source ↗