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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
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Sam Gilliam (painter)
American, born 1933
Relative, 1969
acrylic on canvas
overall (suspended [installed] canvas): 304.8 x 411.48 cm (120 x 162 in.) overall (full canvas): 304.8 x 1341.1 cm (120 x 528 in.)
Anonymous Gift
1994.39.1
Not on View
From the Tour: African-American Artists: Collection Highlights
Object 8 of 22
1994"A Gilliam's New Home." The Washington Post (22 May 1994).
1994"Recent Additions to the Collections." [National Gallery of Art] Circle Bulletin no. 12 (Fall 1994): 28-29.
1994Fleming, Lee. "Sam Gilliam, Still Experimenting." The Washington Post (5 November 1994).
1996Rose, Barbara. "Abstraction as Identity." The International Review of African American Art 13, no. 3 (1996).
1997Protzman, Ferdinand. "Drapes not Drawn." The Washington Post (21 June 1997).

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