2008.134: EXP-SF-17-02
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2008.134
- People
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Sam Francis, American (San Mateo, California 1923 - 1994 Santa Monica, California)
- Title
- EXP-SF-17-02
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1979
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/329338
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Mixed media monotype on handmade paper
- Technique
- Monotype
- Dimensions
- sheet: 79 x 63 cm (31 1/8 x 24 13/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: Sam Francis
- inscription: l.l in pencil: Sam Francis
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Gerald McCue, New York, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museum, 2008.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Gerald McCue, John D. Dunlop Professor Emeritus, Former Dean of the Faculty of Design
- Copyright
- © Sam Francis Foundation, California / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 2008
- Object Number
- 2008.134
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Commentary
- Sam Francis, an artist who experimented with many forms of printing, ran his own press, the Litho Shop. This print is typical of his style influenced by abstract expressionism and the color field theory. His monotypes, like his later paintings, were done on a horizontal plane. Francis is an intuitive artist that used the motion of his whole arm to apply rich colors creating explosive overlapping compositions that create the depth of space on thick homemade paper. By pressing a plate, smaller than the paper, into the print he constructs an intentional boarder that he then breaks by extending his lines and colors past it.
Verification Level
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