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Painting
Fishing Well
Sam Gilliam, 1933 -
Gilliam, Sam
United States
1933
Male
Primary
94 x 48 1/2 in. (238.8 x 123.2 cm)
Acrylic
Acrylic
1997
1997
1997
Painting
Washington D.C.-based Sam Gilliam established himself as a major artist in 1968 when he stopped using wooden stretchers to support his paintings and allowed his vivid rushes of color-stained canvas to hang, billow, and swing through space like drapery. Since that time Gilliam has gone on to create work in an astounding variety of styles while always remaining true to a fundamental disregard for the boundaries that have traditionally separated painting, sculpture, and architecture.
In the early 1990s Gilliam adopted birch plywood as a support surface for his paintings, a practice he continues to the present day. In these works Gilliam achieves an architectural physicality by using overtly sculptural material—wood and its relief properties. The surface of Fishing Well is poured acrylic paint. The images, textures, and suggestion of depth derive from the way the artist pushed and pulled the acrylic paint across the wood surface.
Gallery label text, [Summer 2015]
Sam Gilliam
2014.50
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/23/2014
digital image
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2014.50DI#2
digital image
1/8/2015
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Print
Middleboro
Sam Gilliam, 1933 -
Gilliam, Sam
United States
1933
Male
22 x 22 in. (55.9 x 55.9 cm)
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frame
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1976
1976
1976
1900-2000, 20th century, collotypes
Print
lower rightlower leftlower center
Sam Gilliam
1980.39
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
80.39SL1
slide
2 x 2
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80.39DI1
digital image
2 x 2
11/20/2002
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negative
4 x 5
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glossy
8 x 10
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