Ben II

Artist: Sam Gilliam, American, 1933–2022
Printer: Jeffrey Sippel, American, born 1953
Publisher: Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri, founded 1971
Date: 1999
Material: Lithograph
published in: Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, North and Central America
Classification: Prints
Collection: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Current Location: Not on view
Dimensions: image: 18 3/8 × 27 1/2 in. (46.7 × 69.9 cm)
sheet: 22 × 30 in. (55.9 × 76.2 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the Curators of the University of Missouri on behalf of the University of Missouri-St. Louis
Rights: © Sam Gilliam / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Object Number: 3:2021

NOTES

Ben II captures Sam Gilliam’s experiments with color in a print. The red bar in the lower center of the composition stands out against a saturated yellow background. Teal and black ink drips and pools all over the surface, conveying weight throughout the bright print. The work was published by Gallery 210 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis during the tenure of former director Terry Suhre.

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