Wissahickon

1975

Sam Gilliam

Associated Names
Sam Gilliam

Artist, American, 1933 - 2022

Brandywine Workshop and Archives

Publisher

This print shows a complex pattern of colorful shapes, lines, dots, and splatters. The background of the composition appears to be a bright, vibrant yellow, although the other colors are layered over it in many places. The splatters and splashes of color are predominantly in shades of bright red, pastel yellow, pale green, light blue, teal, light pink, light orange, and cream. These colors are all across the print, overlapping with one another in different abstract shapes.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia; gifted to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2023.

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Bibliography

2024

  • Langdale, Shelley R. "Gifts and Acquisitions."Art for the Nation no. 68 (Spring 2024): 27, repro.

Inscriptions

"Sam Gilliam '75" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. "Wissahickon" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand. "20/30" lower center margin, graphite, artist's hand.

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