Sam Gilliam, American abstractionist and master of ‘drape paintings’, dies at 88
Sam Gilliam, an influential abstract painter from America, died on June 25 at 88 of kidney failure. Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1933 to a railroad worker father and a schoolteacher mother. The family soon moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where Gilliam later attended school at the University of Louisville and received a degree in fine […]
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