About this artwork
Sam Gilliam’s Fire is among the artist’s first engagements with printmaking, which became an ongoing part of his artistic practice. The work, a color lithograph, departed from the majority of contemporary printmaking, which primarily focused on political commentary. Here, instead, Gilliam created a visually lush, abstract image printed in thin areas of color layered over one another. The title offers one interpretation of the work: a vertical red ember of a flame whose heat lessens as it moves out toward the edges of the sheet to become a cool blue. Gilliam produced Fire in collaboration with the printer at Impressions Workshop in Boston.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Sam Gilliam
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Title
- Fire
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1972
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Medium
- Color lithograph on white Japanese paper
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Dimensions
- 61 × 48 cm (24 1/16 × 18 15/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. Carl Horn
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Reference Number
- 1976.650
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Copyright
- © Sam Gilliam / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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