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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

Date

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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School

African-American Abstraction/Washington Color School

Data Source

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py2625d239e-700a-4400-8eda-be2ce737761b

Record ID

hmsg_06.15