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Sewell Sillman

Sewell Sillman (1924 - 1992) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut.  Sewell Sillman is known for Painting, art education, print publishing.

SEWELL SILLMAN (1924-1992)

One of the few native Southerners to study at Black Mountain College, Sewell Sillman was born in Savannah, Georgia. He attended high school in Atlanta before enlisting in the United States Army Air Force Reserve in 1942. That same year, he enrolled in evening engineering classes at the Georgia Institute of Technology; his military training included studies at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Assigned to the European theater during World War II, Sillman was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge. After his discharge, Sillman returned to Georgia Tech in early 1946, but bristled at the university’s constrictive environment, prompting one instructor to label him a “misfit.”

Sillman’s affiliation with Black Mountain College and Josef Albers began in January 1948. His intention was to study architecture, but he became disenchanted during the summer session, when Buckminster Fuller oversaw the unsuccessful construction of the first geodes   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5205 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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