Sale 1059
| Chicago
| Chicago
Lot 23
Estimate$6,000 – $8,000
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Monica Brown
Managing Director, Vice President, Fine Art, Head of Department, Prints and Multiples
Literature:
Andrew Stevens, Tandem Press: Five Years of Collaboration and Experimentation, Elvehjem Museum of Art exh. cat. 1994, cover, 45, 88, illus.
Lot Note:
Sam Gilliam challenged the foundations of every medium he put his hand to, and the print studio offered a playground of materials and techniques. He is perhaps best remembered for his experiments with color field painting in the 1970s. His canvases were draped and suspended – like the sheets hanging from the clothesline he could see outside his Washington studio – breaking away from the rigid forms of the stretcher that had dominated painting since the introduction of stretched canvas paintings in the sixteenth century.
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