<I>And Twirl</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1966
name: label: Created by
content: Sam Gilliam, American, 1933 - 2022
label: Owned by
content: Corcoran Gallery of Art, American, 1890 - 2014
notes: label: Caption
content: Abstract artist Sam Gilliam began his professional career in 1962 when he moved to Washington, D.C. He soon joined a group of D.C.-based painters, the Washington Color School, who used various techniques to explore color and spatial relationships on large-format canvases. Although Gilliam has worked in a wide variety of artistic styles, he is best known for developing the groundbreaking technique of painting on large sheets of unstretched canvas draped from walls and ceilings.
label: Description
content: Painting by Sam Gilliam. The abstract painting has rays running between the lower left and upper right corners. To the upper left of the rays, the canvas is darker, primarily done in shades of green. There is a yellow portion in the center. Extending out from this light center are red clouds of color with yellow paint splatter. The lower left edge has an area of lime green below the red strokes. The painting has a thin, undecorated frame and a backing board over the reverse. There is an identifying label from the Corcoran Gallery of Art on the backing.
place: label: Place made
content: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Abstraction
label: Topic
content: Art
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Corcoran Gallery Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of the Woodward Foundation)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2018.76.2
objectType: label: Type
content: paintings
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Sam Gilliam
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: acrylic on canvas
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 80 × 80 in. (203.2 × 203.2 cm)