Sam Gilliam, Groundbreaking Artist Who Brought Abstraction Into the Third Dimension, Dies at 88
Sam Gilliam, an influential painter whose canvases proposed new possibilities for abstraction, inspiring legions of artists, has died on June 25 at 88. Pace, Gilliam’s New York gallery, said the cause was kidney failure. Gilliam’s abstractions are unusual in that they are often sculptural, in essence suggesting that painting need not be two-dimensional. Working by