Sam Francis: The Artist’s Materials

$40.00 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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. 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…