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Untitled

1969

Sam Gilliam

Artist, American, 1933 - 2022

Medium

brush and black ink, acrylic, and metallic paint with string on Strathmore wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the William A. Clark Fund and Margaret M. Hitchcock)
Dimensions

sheet: 58.26 × 73.82 cm (22 15/16 × 29 1/16 in.)
Accession

2015.19.2566

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

the artist, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1974; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1979

Washington Art on Paper: 1962-1978, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1979

1984

Kentucky Expatriates: Natives and Notable Visitors, Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Kentucky, 1984

Bibliography

1983

Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 246, no. 1635.

Inscriptions

lower right in black ink: Sam Gilliam / '69

Markings

blindstamp lower left: Strathmore

Wikidata ID

Q64630266

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