Harlem Nights

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Harlem Nights

1993

Sam Gilliam (American, 1933–2022) Published by Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia

Gilliam was the Brandywine Workshop’s first artist-in-residence in 1975 and has been a long-standing supporter, returning several times over the years to make prints. One of the key painters associated with the Washington (DC) Color School of the 1960s and 1970s, he developed an innovative approach in which he stains, splashes, and drips paint onto loose canvas, freed from the confines of stretchers, intending the finished work to be draped on a wall. A similar spontaneity in stylistic approach and inventive structure is evident in the arrangement of marks, layering of colors, and overlapping sheets of this print.

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Object Details

Titles:

Harlem Nights

Date:

1993

Artists:

Sam Gilliam (American, 1933–2022) Published by Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia

Medium:

Color offset lithograph and screenprint collage

Dimensions:

Image and sheet (irregular top edge): 27 1/2 x 34 11/16 inches (69.9 x 88.1 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

Gift of the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, in memory of Anne d'Harnoncourt, 2009

Accession Number:

2009-61-31

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