Ruby Light
Object Details
- Artist
- Sam Gilliam, American, b. Tupelo, Mississippi, 1933–2022
- Provenance
- The artist, Washington, DC, to 26 October 2006 (sold by Marsha Mateyka Gallery)
- Gift of the Artist and Marsha Mateyka and Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest Fund, 2006
- Exhibition History
- KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL. "The Music of Color, Sam Gilliam, 1967-1973," 9 June-30 September 2018, cat.
- Published References
- None recorded
- Credit Line
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Artist and Marsha Mateyka and Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest Fund, 2006
- 1972
- Accession Number
- 06.15
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- approx. 80 × 57 × 12 in. (203.2 × 144.7 × 30.7 cm) [variable]
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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_06.15
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py2625d239e-700a-4400-8eda-be2ce737761b
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