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Object Details
- Artist
- Sam Gilliam, American, b. Tupelo, Mississippi, 1933–2022
- Provenance
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, to 18 December 2018
- Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Museum purchase, Gallery Fund), 2018
- Exhibition History
- CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Washington, DC. "Gilliam, Krebs, McGowin," 1969, no cat.
- AMERICAN PAVILION OF THE 36th VENICE BIENNALE. "USA: XXXVI international Biennial Exhibition of Art / Venice," 11 June-1 October 1972, no. 21, ill. [The National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, sponsor; Walter Hopps, director, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, director of the United States Exhibition.]
- CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART, Washington DC. "Sam Gilliam: A Retrospective," 15 October 2005-24 January 2006, p. 44; color ill. p. 45 (unnumbered checklist). Tour: SPEED ART MUSEUM, Louisville, 6 June-3 September; TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART, Savannah, 11 October-31 December; CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM, Houston, 27 January 2007-6 May.
- KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL. "The Music of Color, Sam Gilliam, 1967-1973," 9 June-30 September 2018, cat.
- Published References
- AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 180, pp. 198-199.
- Credit Line
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Museum purchase, Gallery Fund), 2018
- 1969
- Accession Number
- 2018.036
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 120 × 900 in. (304.8 × 2286 cm)
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- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
- School
- African-American Abstraction/Washington Color School
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Record ID
- hmsg_2018.036
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py21d44514e-d4ee-4b4d-a8bb-bd545c1dc9d3
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