1993

Harlem Nights

American, 1933 - 2022

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.