Sam Gilliam Lin Prints Issued on the occasion of

Issued on the occasion of the exhibition Agnes Martin: Recent Paintings

musical composition

an essay by Barabra Rose

Both a retrospective of his paintings and a biography of his dramatic life

With seven foldouts encouraging close looking

Sam Gilliam Lin Prints Issued on the occasion ofAn African American artist in the nations capital at the height of the Civil Rights movement, Sam Gilliam blazed a trail with his singular artistic vision. Gilliam emerged from the Washington, DC art scene in the mid 1960s with works that disrupted established artistic norms and styles. Relentlessly experimental and inspired by the improvisatory ethos of jazz, Gilliams lyrical abstractions took on an increasing variety of forms, moods, and materials.