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Photo: Nathaniel Willson
Untitled
Photo: Nathaniel Willson

Untitled

Date1973
Label TextSam Gilliam is a pioneer of post-minimalist painting, freeing the genre of stretcher bars and rectangular formats in the 1960s and 1970s to call attention to the materiality of painting and its support. In these breakthrough works we find the artist manipulating the fabric background, and the paint that is stained and splattered on its surface, so that it is an active, rather than passive participant in the final composition.
Object number2008.59
ProvenanceLinda Farris, Seattle, Wash.; estate of Linda Farris; gifted to the Seattle Art Museum, December 19, 2008
Photo CreditPhoto: Nathaniel Willson
Credit LineGift of the Estate of Linda Farris
Dimensions60 x 93 in. (152.4 x 236.2 cm) Frame: 63 x 96 in. (160 x 243.8 cm)
MediumAcrylic on polypropylene
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