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Fan account of Sam Gilliam, a color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist. 1933-2022 Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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Untitled

Untitled

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/untitled-2002

10.03.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Cubes

Cubes

Cubes https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/cubes

10.03.2026 14:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Artist's multiple

Artist's multiple

Untitled https://collections.artsmia.org/art/7723/

10.03.2026 11:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Close to Trees

Close to Trees

Close to Trees https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/close-to-trees-2011

09.03.2026 18:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
From a suite of five prints.

From a suite of five prints.

Buoy Landscape II https://collections.artsmia.org/art/43175/

09.03.2026 14:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Plow

Plow

Plow https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/plow

09.03.2026 09:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
This Time

This Time

This Time https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/this-time-2008

08.03.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A Spring Thaw

A Spring Thaw

A Spring Thaw https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/a-spring-thaw

08.03.2026 13:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Water Surface

Water Surface

Water Surface https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/water-surface-1993

08.03.2026 09:58 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Icon

Icon

Icon https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/icon-1

07.03.2026 18:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Pearlie

Pearlie

Pearlie https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/pearlie

07.03.2026 12:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Fog In The Hollow

Fog In The Hollow

Fog In The Hollow https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/fog-in-the-hollow-1974

07.03.2026 09:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
St. Albans

St. Albans

St. Albans https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/st-albans-1976

06.03.2026 18:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
From a suite of five prints.

From a suite of five prints.

Buoy Landscape V https://collections.artsmia.org/art/43178/

06.03.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Pink Flutter

Pink Flutter

Pink Flutter https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/pink-flutter-1969

06.03.2026 11:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Light Fan

Light Fan

Light Fan https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/light-fan-1966

05.03.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Color run for published print

Color run for published print

Coffee Thyme I https://collections.artsmia.org/art/58659/

05.03.2026 10:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Maquette using leftover fragments from Coffee Thyme project, taped together

Maquette using leftover fragments from Coffee Thyme project, taped together

Study for "Lattice" https://collections.artsmia.org/art/28043/

04.03.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A Warmth, A Lightness, A Glow and Then

A Warmth, A Lightness, A Glow and Then

A Warmth, A Lightness, A Glow and Then https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/a-warmth-a-lightness-a-glow-and-then-1968

04.03.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Coffee Thyme

Coffee Thyme

Coffee Thyme https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/coffee-thyme-1980

04.03.2026 08:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Coffee Thyme I

Coffee Thyme I

Coffee Thyme I https://collections.artsmia.org/art/58751/

03.03.2026 17:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Untitled

Untitled

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/untitled-1968

03.03.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
From a suite of four prints.

From a suite of four prints.

Lattice IV https://collections.artsmia.org/art/58757/

03.03.2026 10:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Horses Upside Down

Horses Upside Down

Horses Upside Down https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/horses-upside-down-1998

02.03.2026 17:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
In the early 1960s Sam Gilliam began to experiment with brushless paintingβ€”staining or dying his canvases rather than applying paint more traditionally, a technique associated at the time with Color Field painting. By the end of the decade he broke with tradition in another way, abandoning the taut, stretched canvas of typical easel painting to treat his canvases sculpturallyβ€”bunching, folding, or draping them in space. The fluidity of the cloth seems to echo the fluidity of the paint, and vice versa. A quintessential work like β€œA” and the Carpenter I is a painting on a grand scale and yet, like a stained drop cloth slung across two sawhorses, it summons the residues of an artist’s studio, or even the remainders of another kind of work site.

Twentieth-Century Purchase Fund

In the early 1960s Sam Gilliam began to experiment with brushless paintingβ€”staining or dying his canvases rather than applying paint more traditionally, a technique associated at the time with Color Field painting. By the end of the decade he broke with tradition in another way, abandoning the taut, stretched canvas of typical easel painting to treat his canvases sculpturallyβ€”bunching, folding, or draping them in space. The fluidity of the cloth seems to echo the fluidity of the paint, and vice versa. A quintessential work like β€œA” and the Carpenter I is a painting on a grand scale and yet, like a stained drop cloth slung across two sawhorses, it summons the residues of an artist’s studio, or even the remainders of another kind of work site. Twentieth-Century Purchase Fund

"A" and the Carpenter I https://www.artic.edu/artworks/45860/

02.03.2026 14:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Color run for published print

Color run for published print

Coffee Thyme I https://collections.artsmia.org/art/58658/

02.03.2026 11:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Bluest

Bluest

Bluest https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/bluest-1998

01.03.2026 16:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Lot and Square

Lot and Square

Lot and Square https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/lot-and-square-2007

01.03.2026 13:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Purchase

Purchase

Fire http://www.moma.org/collection/works/66787

01.03.2026 09:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Blue Line

Blue Line

Blue Line https://www.wikiart.org/en/sam-gilliam/blue-line-2004

28.02.2026 19:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0