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Sam Francis
Untitled, 1955-1956

Artwork Info

Artwork title
Untitled
Artist name
Sam Francis
Date created
1955-1956
Classification
painting
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
73 in. × 77 3/4 in. (185.42 cm × 197.49 cm)
Credit
The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Copyright
© Samuel L. Francis Foundation, California / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Permanent URL
https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/FC.403
Artwork status
Not on view at this time.

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Francis on cosmological painting

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SFX: Music, atmospheric digital noise

 

SAM FRANCIS (MALE CHARACTER VOICE):  

November 21, 1955 

Dear Dad and Virginia, 

Have been reading a lot of astronomy lately.  

The paintings have become much more cosmological in feeling.  

And of much greater spatial expansion. 

A kind of universe or world that seems to have formed by its own laws. 

Not touched by human hands, yet there for the human eye to see. 

Not the God’s eye – for in a way it is the eye of the Gods. 

A kind of window to look out of, not into. 

 

All my love, 

Sam

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