Leah's Renoir

Inscription: Signed and inscribed (verso): Leah's Renoir / Sam Gilliam

the artist, Washington, D.C. (1979; sold through Hamilton Gallery of Contemporary Art, New York to MMA)

New York. Hamilton Gallery of Contemporary Art. "Sam Gilliam," March 10–31, 1979, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Recent Acquisitions: Twentieth Century Art Department," October 16, 1979–January 30, 1980, no catalogue.

Washington, D.C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. "Sam Gilliam: A Retrospective," October 15, 2005–January 22, 2006, unnumbered cat. (pp. 120–21).

Louisville, Ky. Speed Art Museum. "Sam Gilliam: A Retrospective," June 6–September 3, 2006, unnumbered cat.

Savannah, Ga. Telfair Museum of Art. "Sam Gilliam: A Retrospective," October 11–December 31, 2006, unnumbered cat.

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. "Sam Gilliam: A Retrospective," January 27–May 6, 2007, unnumbered cat.

Theodore F. Wolff. "Today's 'Questioning' Art." Christian Science Monitor (December 3, 1979), p. 19.

"Art Notes." Asbury Park Press (November 25, 1979), p. H9.

Hilton Kramer in "Critics' Choices: What's Special This Holiday Weekend." New York Times (November 23, 1979), p. C16.

Ellen Schwartz. "Sam Gilliam." Art News 78 (September 1979), p. 184, notes that this work has visible tiny seams work where the painted canvas was sliced and repasted into a new order.

Lowery Sims. "The Metropolitan: Collecting Black Art." Routes Magazine 3 (May 1980), p. 25.

B.A. Monroe. "Sam Gilliam." Black Art 4, no. 4 (1981), p. 21, ill. p. 22 (color).

Ben Forgey. Oral history interview with Sam Gilliam. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. November 4–11, 1989, remarking on this painting's title, the artist recalls that his "youngest daughter had an assignment to make a painting after a famous artist, so she chose Renoir and she asked me to help. [. . .] So I wanted her to remember that at least there were other capable famous painters [. . .] closer to her that she lived with".

Jonathan P. Binstock. Sam Gilliam: A Retrospective. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. Berkeley, 2005, pp. 118, 203, ill. pp. 120–21 (color).

Tom L. Freudenheim. "A Master of Color Too Long in the Shadows." Wall Street Journal (January 11, 2006), p. D14.

Ted Loos. "Reframing Art With African Roots: A Collector's Mission to Raise Awareness." New York Times (October 17, 2016), p. C1.

Eileen Kinsella. "At Age 84, Living Legend Sam Gilliam Is Enjoying His Greatest Renaissance Yet." news.artnet.com. January 2, 2018.

Nicholas Cullinan. "Sam Gilliam." Four Generations: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art. Ed. Courtney J. Martin. Revised and expanded ed. (1st ed., 2016). New York, 2019, p. 111.