Birth Name:

Sam Gilliam

Male

Birth Date:

Thu, Nov 30, 1933

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Tupelo, Mississippi, United States

Age:

91

Zodiac Sign:

Sagittarius

Astrology Data:

Sun

8°

Sag

6'

About Sam Gilliam

Sam Gilliam (/ˈɡɪliəm/ GHIL-ee-əm; born November 30, 1933) is an African-American color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist. Gilliam is associated with the Washington Color School, a group of Washington, D.C. area artists that developed a form of abstract art from color field painting in the 1950s and 1960s. His works have also been described as belonging to abstract expressionism and lyrical abstraction. He works on stretched, draped and wrapped canvas, and adds sculptural 3D elements. He is recognized as the first artist to introduce the idea of a draped, painted canvas hanging without stretcher bars around 1965. This was a major contribution to the Color Field School.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Sam Gilliam Papers, 1957-1989. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

• "Sam Gilliam" files, Thelma & Bert Ollie Memorial Collection of Abstract Art by Black Artists: Files for Research and Education, Museum Archives, Saint Louis Art Museum

• Gilliam's Newest Work Inspires Dickstein Shapiro, Washingtonian magazine

• Sam Gilliam at the National Gallery of Art

• Sam Gilliam at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

• Sam Gilliam "Existed Existing" at Pace Gallery

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Sam Gilliam: Sun 8 Sagittarius, Moon 23 Taurus, Mercury 19 Scorpio, Venus 25 Capricorn, Mars 8 Capricorn, Jupiter 16 Libra, Saturn 11 Aquarius, Uranus 23 Aries, Neptune 12 Virgo, Pluto 24 Cancer, Sun Square Neptune, Sun Sextile Saturn, Sun Semi Square Venus, Sun Semi Sextile Mars, Sun Sesquiquadrate Uranus, Sun Sesquiquadrate Pluto, Venus Square Uranus, Venus Sesquiquadrate Neptune, Venus Opposition Pluto, Mars Trine Neptune, Saturn Quincunx Neptune, Uranus Square Pluto, Neptune Semi Square Pluto

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