Sam Gilliam was born on 30 November 1933 in Tupelo, Mississippi, USA. He was married to Annie Gawlak and Dorothy Butler Gilliam. He died on 25 June 2022 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Abstract painter whose works are in the National Gallery of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Tate Modern in London.
