• Sam Gilliam. The cover feature an image of a blue work by Gilliam. The font is blue.
  • The book is open to two pages with a foldout opened on the right page. An image of one Gilliam work spans all three pages.
  • The book is open to two pages. The left page has a portrait of the artist in his studio. The right page has an essay about the artist.
  • The book is open to two pages. The right page has an image of a draped Gilliam work in a white gallery with cement floors. The left page has a detail shot of the same work.
  • Sam Gilliam. The cover feature an image of a blue work by Gilliam. The font is blue.
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Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years

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Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years presents a suite of works created by the late artist in the final years of his life, exhibited by Pace Gallery in New York and David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles.

These iconic tondos, drapes, and beveled-edge paintings demonstrate Gilliam's unflagging commitment to transforming the relationship between paint and canvas. With extensive photography and foldouts and an essay by art historian Lowery Stokes Sims that traces the development of the artist's practice, this volume offers an all-encompassing look at these dynamic, vibrant compositions and the singular man behind them.

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One of the most celebrated figures in post-war American art, D.C.-based painter Sam Gilliam pioneered a new course through abstraction with a variety of forms, moods, and materials, like the beveled-edge canvas, which he first created in the late 1960s, and his canonical Drape series. With experimentation as his only constant, he continued to develop and transform his practice all the way up until his death in June of 2022.
Publication details

Contributors: Lowery Stokes Sims
Publishers: David Kordansky Gallery and Pace Gallery
Publication date: 2023
Softcover
10 ½ × 9 ½ inches
94 pages
ISBN: 9781948701631
Sam Gilliam. The cover feature an image of a blue work by Gilliam. The font is blue.
The book is open to two pages with a foldout opened on the right page. An image of one Gilliam work spans all three pages.
The book is open to two pages. The left page has a portrait of the artist in his studio. The right page has an essay about the artist.
The book is open to two pages. The right page has an image of a draped Gilliam work in a white gallery with cement floors. The left page has a detail shot of the same work.
Sam Gilliam. The cover feature an image of a blue work by Gilliam. The font is blue.

Sam Gilliam

Sam Gilliam was one of the great innovators in postwar American painting. He emerged from the Washington, D.C. scene in the mid 1960s with works that elaborated upon and disrupted the ethos of Color School painting.

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