"A" and the Carpenter I

1. The artist; Washington D.C.; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 12, 1973.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Washington, D. C., Corcoran Museum of Art, Sam Gilliam: A Retrospective, Oct. 15, 2005–Jan. 22, 2006, no cat. no.; Louisville, Speed Art Museum, June 6–Sept. 3; Savannah, Telfair Museums, Jepson Center, Oct. 11–Dec. 31, 2006; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Jan. 27–May 6, 2006.
• Kunstmuseum Basel, The Music of Color: Sam Gilliam, 1967–1973, June 9–Sept. 30, 2018, cat. 17.

• Walter Hopps, Sam Gilliam: Paintings and Works on Paper (Louisville: J.B. Speed Art Museum, 1976), n.p., cat. 10 (ill.).
• Kay Kloner, Hugh M. Davies, Sam Gilliam: Indoor & Outdoor Paintings, 1967-1978, exh. cat. (Amherst: University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1978), 2, 17.
• Jay Kloner, "Sam Gilliam: Recent Black Paintings,” Arts Magazine 52, no. 6 (February 1978): 152, as A and the Carpenter I.
• Susan F. Rossen, “Introduction,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, 2 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1999), 141.
• Jonathan P. Binstock, Sam Gilliam: A Retrospective, exh. cat. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press/Washington DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2005), 46, 92, 94, 97 (color ill.), 113.
• Lilly Wei, "Living Color,” Art in America 95, no. 4 (April 2007): 119, as A and the Carpenter I (1973).
• Jonathan P. Binstock and Josef Helfenstein, eds., The Music of Color: Sam Gilliam, 1967–1973, exh. cat. (Köln: Verlag Walther König, 2018), 72-73 (color ill.), 143.
• Janelle Porter, Sam Gilliam (Los Angeles: David Kordansky Gallery, 2016), 30.
• Adrienne Edwards, Sam Gilliam: 1967-1973 (New York: Mnuchin Gallery, 2017), 69 (color ill., install).
• Ishmael Reed, Mary Schmidt Campbell, and Andria Hickey, Sam Gilliam (New York, London: Phaidon Press, 2024), 123, 124-125 (color ill.), 298.

Carousel State

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Leah's Renoir

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Whirlirama

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Phase

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Western Dream

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Art in Washington and its Afro-American presence : 1940-1970

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Abstraction

Art Institute of Chicago

Fire

Art Institute of Chicago

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