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Sam Gilliam
[African-American Abstract Painter, born in 1933]
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Sam Gilliam Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Sam Gilliam available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Sam Gilliam at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Sam Gilliam at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Red Petals, 1967
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Parallel
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Shift, watercolor
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Sam Gilliam: a retrospective
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Light Depth
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
3 Point
DePaul University Museum, Chicago
As Kids Go
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina
Note that the JPG image is displayed smaller than its actual size
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Howard University Art Collection, Washington D.C.
Eikos, 1966
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Jacobs Gallery at Georgetown College, Kentucky
Arrowhead, 1975
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Sky Chord, 1966
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Speed Art Museum, Kentucky
Haiti, 1993
Ritual Dark, 1993
Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia
(Click on the artwork title, not the thumbnail, to enlarge the image)
Tubman African American Museum, Macon, Georgia
Little Rock, 1993
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Red April, 1970
University of Kentucky Art Museum
Glisten, 1972
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
University of Michigan Fine Art Slides
The Great American Quilt Series
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Presence Africaine
Repository of Abstract Art
Articles and Reference Sites:
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) 
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Artnet Magazine
Untitled, ca.1970
Sam Gilliam at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1984 interview from the Oral History project
Sam Gilliam at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1989 interview from the Oral History project
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Biography only
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