Green Lizzie
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Artist: Sam Gilliam, American, 1933-2022
Year
1973
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Media/Materials
Acrylic on canvas
Measurements
58 x 54in (147.3 x 137.2cm)
Credit line
Gift of Janet and Jim Dicke
Accession number
2008.7
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Further information
After obtaining his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1961, Sam Gilliam moved to Washington, D.C., where he became involved with other artists whose abstract paintings explored the relationship between color and space. To create works such as Green Lizzie, Gilliam worked through a complex process that involves splattering paint on unprimed canvas, layering different colors and glazes, and even painting canvas that has been crumpled and left on the floor to dry. The spontaneous splotches and lines created by this process are hallmarks of Gilliam's style and are a result of his embrace for the physicality of painted surfaces.
Copyright
© Sam Gilliam/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Documentation
Something to Say: The McNay Presents 100 Years of African American Art; René Paul Barilleaux, Lowery Stokes Sims (b.1949); 2018; p. 60, 63
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