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Sam Francis: The Artist's Materials

by Getty Conservation Institute
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781606065839
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Getty Conservation Institute
  • Publisher Imprint: Getty Conservation Institute
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  • Pages: 140
  • Original Price: GBP 35.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 545 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Conservation & Preservation, Techniques / Painting / General, and Techniques / Printmaking

The next title in the respected Artist's Materials series offers groundbreaking analysis of Sam Francis's working methods and materials.

American artist Sam Francis (1923-1994) brought vivid color and emotional intensity to Abstract Expressionism. He was described as the "most sensuous and sensitive painter of his generation" by former Guggenheim Museum director James Johnson Sweeney, and curator Howard Fox called him "one of the acknowledged masters of late-modern art." Francis's works, whether intimate or monumental in scale, make indelible impressions; the intention of the artist was to make them felt as much as seen.

At the age of twenty, Francis was hospitalized for spinal tuberculosis and spent three years virtually immobilized in a body cast. For physical therapy he was given a set of watercolors, and, as he described it, he painted his way back to life. The exuberant color and expression in his paintings celebrated his survival; his five-decade career was an energetic visual and theoretical exploration that took him around the world.

Francis's idiosyncratic painting practices have long been the subject of speculation and debate among conservators and art historians. Presented here for the first time in this volume are the results of an in-depth scientific study of more than forty paintings from the late 1940s to early 1990s, which reveal new discoveries about his creative process, inventive techniques, and specially formulated paints and binders. The data provides a key to the complicated evolution of the artist's work and informs original art historical interpretations.

Debra Burchett-Lere, author and curator, is executive director of the Sam Francis Foundation. She has organized numerous exhibitions and publications on the artist and is editor of Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946-1994. Aneta Zebala, conservator and author, is founder of Zebala & Partners. She is conservator for the Sam Francis Foundation and a contributor to Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946-1994.

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