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1933–2022 United States

Sam Gilliam (born November 30, 1933 – died June 25, 2022) was an American abstract painter, sculptor, and arts educator. Born in Mississippi and raised in Kentucky.

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I feel like I’m starting all over. I feel like I’m just beginning.

I'd actually say that your ideas come from the art collective, those artists that you've always been interested in and figuring out what they would do in those situations. That's what an artist is anyway. He's just a single member of a collective, the whole generation that went before.

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