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Sam Francis
Sulfur Sails1969

Not on view
Vertical abstract print with gestural splashes, pours, and sweeping marks in navy, green, orange, and red forming a frame around a large white central field

Sam Francis, Charles Ringness, Sulfur Sails, 1969, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum Purchase, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Printer
Sam Francis
California, active France, Japan, United States, 1923-1994
Printer
Charles Ringness
United States, born 1946
Title
Sulfur Sails
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1969
Medium
Lithograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 38 1/2 × 26 1/8 in. (97.79 × 66.36 cm) Image: 38 1/2 × 26 1/8 in. (97.79 × 66.36 cm)
Credit Line
Museum Purchase
Accession Number
M.70.81.256
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Speer, Richard. The Space of Effusion: Sam Francis in Japan. Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2020.
  • Speer, Richard. "Sam Francis and Japan: Mutual Influence." Arts of Asia Autumn (2023): 121-129.
Copyright
© 2015 Sam Francis Foundation, California / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York