Sam Gilliam is a leader of the 1970’s school of color-field painting. He has works in most major American art museums. Public collections with his work are the Art Institute of Chicago; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; The Rockerfeller Collection, New York, NY; as well as international collections such as the Tate Gallery, London, England and Le Musee d’Art de Ville, Paris.