Sam Gilliam, the first Black artist to represent the US pavilion at the Venice Biennale, has died at the age of 88. The American abstract artist died at home in Washington, DC, on Saturday, David ...

Sam Gilliam, an abstract artist with deep ties to Louisville, died over the weekend. A two-time University of Louisville alum whose transformative three-dimensional art drew international acclaim, ...

Pioneering abstract artist Sam Gilliam, known for using unstretched canvases to create paintings and sculpture, died on June 25 at age 88. The galleries representing his work, David Kordansky and Pace ...

The abstract-art pioneer Sam Gilliam died Saturday at his home in DC. Beauty Pill frontman Chad Clark remembers his former neighbor and inspiration. By wild fortuitous luck, for a couple years, Sam ...

Temporary exhibits at the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in 2026 will include those focusing on quilts, baskets, Japanese ...

For an exhibition in 1998, the Kreeger Museum invited Sam Gilliam to take over. He could do whatever he wanted, as long as it related in some way to the modernist museum, a mansion-turned-jewel-box ...

One of the great artists of his generation, Washington, D.C.’s Sam Gilliam passed away Sunday at the age of 88. As reported by the Washington Post, the cause was kidney disease. Originally noted for ...

Sam Gilliam, an artist who fused painting with sculpture in vividly colored canvases that he removed from their wooden stretchers and suspended in space, died of renal failure on June 25 in Washington ...

Sam Gilliam, the renowned Black abstract painter and colorist, passed away last weekend just two months into his first solo exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. The visual artist ...

Sam Gilliam, the first Black artist to represent the US pavilion at the Venice Biennale, has died at the age of 88. – (Marvin Joseph-The Washington Post-Getty Images) *(CNN) — Sam Gilliam, the first ...

Sam Gilliam, a pioneering abstract painter best known for his lusciously stained Drape paintings, which took his medium more fully into three dimensions than any other artist of his generation, died ...