October 24, 2015
The artist and educator Sewell Sillman was born on this day in 1924. He studied with Josef Albers at Black Mountain College and then followed Albers to Yale University, where he received a BFA in 1951 and an MFA in 1953. He then joined the School of Art faculty, remaining at Yale until 1966. In 1958 he and fellow Yale professor Norman Ives founded the art publishing firm Ives-Sillman, Inc.; their first project involved overseeing the production of Josef Albers’s groundbreaking “Interaction of Color.” Shown here is one of Sillman’s signature “wave” drawings from 1964; it is formed from hundreds of undulating lines.
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