From the decade in which Sam Gilliam began his hallmark series of draped fabric paintings comes 'So They Can', an early and important work by the 85-year-old artist. Read more about Gilliam's radical abstraction ahead of our New Now auction in New York. Link in bio. #samgilliam #phillipsny . Photo credit: Artist Sam Gilliam poses in his paint-splattered Washington, D.C., studio in 1980. Anthony Barboza / Getty Images