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. "Sam Gilliam ...

Given that esteemed Color Field painter Sam Gilliam’s career spans more than six decades and his work was first acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1979, it’s surprising that he has never ...

Sam Gilliam, an artist with a big impact in D.C., has died at the age of 88. Gilliam was one of the artists associated with the Washington Color School, which was a movement initiated in D.C. in the ...

Critical and market attention for the abstract painter Sam Gilliam is at an all-time high. But longtime collectors and fans of the artist—who have watched him rack up accolades for at least five ...

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 Pace ...

Sam Gilliam, the renowned Black abstract painter and colorist, passed away last weekend just two months into his first solo exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The visual artist ...

Sam Gilliam, an artist who fused painting with sculpture in vividly colored canvases that he removed from their wooden stretchers and suspended in space, died of renal failure on June 25 in Washington ...

Artist Sam Gilliam is known for his vibrant, draped fabrics such as Swing from 1969. (Smithsonian American Art Museum) Sam Gilliam found inspiration for his signature artworks in an unlikely place — a ...

If you were a Washington, DC public school student in the early 1960s, your art teacher might have been Alma Thomas. . . or Sam Gilliam. Both represent a tradition of artist-art educators in DC public ...

The volume of works on view in Sam Gilliam's exhibition at Pace is impressive for any artist. More so for an artist who is 86. Sam Gilliam, Heroines, Beyoncé, Serena ...