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PRESS RELEASE--SAM GILLIAM AT BYRON GALLERY--page 2

Sam Gilliam's paintings have recently been reviewed and reproduced in several magazines. In an article on little-known artists outside of New York, "A Gallery Without Walls" in the March-April issue of Art in America, Barbara Rose wrote of "a burgeoning group of young Washington artists" and discerned in Gilliam's work "a reaction against stressing shape and hard outlines in a new kind of painterliness." In an article on "Washington" in the March issue of Artforum, Andrew Hudson called Gilliam's paintings of 1966 a "major breakthrough." Gilliam's recent paintings have also been reproduced on the cover of the April issue of The Art Gallery (Afro-American artists issue) and in the May issue of Vogue, in an article on paintings from the Woodward Foundation selected by Mrs. Llewellyn E. Thompson for the American Embassy in Moscow.

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May 9, 1968.