![Old Side, 1968](https://img.artlogic.net/w_472,h_472,c_limit/exhibit-e/5d7fb2fd81a61124038b4567/99c2252c7058617227e95d80afcc3139.jpeg)
Sam Gilliam
Old Side, 1968
acrylic and metallic paint on back bevel canvas,
108 x 75 inches
“Those paintings, the Slice paintings, represented Gilliam’s first breakthrough, his first signature style. …Most critics viewed the Slice paintings on backward slanting beveled -edge stretchers as ‘major breakthroughs.’ …