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Northwest Wind, 1992

  • Artist

    Sam Gilliam

  • Title

    Northwest Wind

  • Date

    1992

  • Medium

    Acrylic on synthetic fabric mounted on wood

  • Dimensions

    30 × 63 in. (76.2 × 160 cm)

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Walker

  • Object Number

    2002.10.1

Sam Gilliam is best known for his drape paintings, consisting of large swaths of unstretched canvas stained with paint, in which color merges with the weave of the fabric. Northwest Wind continues the line of inquiry around color and surface found in Gilliam’s earlier work but in a more traditional stretched-canvas format. Here, the colorful, intersecting layers of paint raked across the surface create an alternative weave, independent of the canvas’s, to describe a new textile that folds and shifts across the surface.


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Artworks

Northwest Wind, 1992

  • Artist

    Sam Gilliam

  • Title

    Northwest Wind

  • Date

    1992

  • Medium

    Acrylic on synthetic fabric mounted on wood

  • Dimensions

    30 × 63 in. (76.2 × 160 cm)

  • Credit line

    The Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Walker

  • Object Number

    2002.10.1

Sam Gilliam is best known for his drape paintings, consisting of large swaths of unstretched canvas stained with paint, in which color merges with the weave of the fabric. Northwest Wind continues the line of inquiry around color and surface found in Gilliam’s earlier work but in a more traditional stretched-canvas format. Here, the colorful, intersecting layers of paint raked across the surface create an alternative weave, independent of the canvas’s, to describe a new textile that folds and shifts across the surface.


Explore further