Searching for Sam Gilliam: the 81-year-old art genius saved from oblivion

In the 1960s, he was hailed as an artist as radical as Jackson Pollock – but the art world somehow forgot Sam Gilliam. Here’s how two savvy fans tracked him down and brought him back into the spotlightThree years ago, Sam Gilliam was living in obscurity and his money was running out. He was nearing 80, his health was bad and he had no pension. But there was one thing he still had, one thing he had never given up on: the studio near his apartment in Washington DC.In the 1960s and 70s,