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ID: 500013570
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500013570

 

Record Type: Person
Gilliam, Sam (American painter, 1933-2022)

Note: The pioneering abstract painter was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and received an MA in painting from the University of Louisville. Working with brilliant color, he became known for showing his abstract canvases stripped of wood stretchers and draped from ceilings or gathered and pinned to walls.

Names:
Gilliam, Sam (preferred,V,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
Sam Gilliam (V,display)
Gilliam, Sam, Jr. (V)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
African American
Black

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter
printmaker
sculptor
teacher

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Tupelo (Lee county, Mississippi, United States) (inhabited place)
Died:  Washington (DC, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Gilliam, Sam (I)

Biographies:
(American painter, 1933-2022) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American artist, 20th cent.) ..... [WCP]
(American artist, b.1933) ..... [WCI]
(American painter, born 1933) ..... [BHA]
(American painter b.1933) ..... [GRLPA]
(American artist, born 1933) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American sculptor, born 1933) ..... [CL-Courtauld]
(American painter) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(American artist, born 1933) ..... [MoMA]
(American painter, 1933-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Gilliam, Sam ........ [BHA Preferred, CL-Courtauld Preferred, GRL Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, WCI Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
..........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules 2161
..........................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..........................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50030145
..........................  Phillips Collection (n.d.)
..........................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 31719
..........................  Witt Library, Authority files
Gilliam, Sam, Jr. ........ [VP]
...................................  Ask Art [online] (2003) accessed 4 June 2003
Sam Gilliam ........ [GRL, MoMA, VP]
........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........ [BHA, CL-Courtauld, Gallery Systems, GRL, GRLPA, Grove Art, MoMA, RKD, VP, WCI, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-) http://www.moma.org/collection/artists/2161
....................  Ask Art [online] (2003) accessed 4 June 2003
....................  Cederholm, Afro-American artists (1973)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n50030145
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules 2161
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n50030145
....................  National Gallery of Art, Washington DC [online] (2002) accessed 2 February 2005
....................  Phillips Collection (n.d.)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 31719
....................  SNAC: Social Networks and Archival Context [online] (2018-) 18728660
....................  VIAF: Virtual International Authority File [online] (2009-) 95763938
....................  Who's Who in American Art (1936-) 1976
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q2216478
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [CL-Courtauld, VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... National Gallery of Art, Washington DC [online] (2002) accessed 2 February 2005
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