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Sam Francis

Arcueil

1956 / 1958

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  • Artist Sam Francis (American, 1923–1994)
  • Title Arcueil
  • Date 1956 / 1958
  • Medium Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions unframed | 80 3/4 x 76 in.
  • Credit line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Weil, 1962
  • Object number WU 3996

Un art autre
Lévy Gorvy, 04/26/2019 - 07/05/2019

Es war einmal in Amerika: 300 Jahre US-Amerikanische Kunst (Once Upon a Time in America: Three Centuries of US-American Art)
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, 11/23/2018 - 03/24/2019

From Picasso to Fontana: Collecting Modern and Postwar Art in the Eisendrath Years, 1960–1968
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/23/2015 - 04/19/2015

International Abstraction: Art of the 1950s from the Washington University Collections
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/22/1999 - 03/28/1999

Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/12/1998 - 04/05/1998

Abstract Expressionism: American Art in the 1950s and 1960s
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/17/1997 - 04/06/1997

A Gallery of Modern Art
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 08/09/1994 - 10/16/1994

Modernism at Midstream: From Europe to America and Back Again
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 09/04/1983 - 11/06/1983

Cubists, Surrealists, and Expressionists

The Centennial Exhibition
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/15/1981 - 10/11/1981

Sam Francis: Paintings 1947–1972
Dallas Museum of Art, 02/07/1973 - 03/18/1973
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 11/01/1972 - 11/30/1972
Whitney Museum of American Art, 12/10/1972 - 01/14/1973
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, 09/11/1972 - 10/15/1972
Oakland Museum of California, 06/12/1973 - 08/05/1973

Development of Modernist Painting: Jackson Pollock to the Present
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 04/01/1969 - 04/30/1969

Twentieth Century American Painting
Grand Rapids Art Museum, 04/01/1967 - 04/30/1967

20th Century American Painting
Grand Rapids Art Museum, 04/01/1967 - 04/30/1967

Washington University Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture from Daumier to Pollock
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 04/06/1966 - 05/08/1966

American Painting 1910–1960: A Special Exhibition Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Association of College Unions
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana), 04/19/1964 - 05/10/1964

A Galaxy of Treasures from St. Louis Collections
Saint Louis Art Museum, 01/18/1961 - 02/13/1961

The New American Painting
la nuova pittura americana, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, 06/01/1958 - 06/29/1958
Die neue amerikanische Malerei, Kunsthalle Basel, 04/19/1958 - 05/26/1958
La nueva pintura Americana, Museo Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo, 07/16/1958 - 08/11/1958
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 05/28/1959 - 09/08/1959
The New American Painting, as shown in eight European countries, 1958–59, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 05/28/1959 - 09/08/1959
La nouvelle peinture américaine, BOZAR Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, 12/06/1958 - 01/04/1959
Jong Amerika Schildert, Stedelijk Museum, 10/17/1958 - 11/25/1958
Die neue amerikanische Malerei, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, 09/01/1958 - 10/01/1958
Jackson Pollock et la nouvelle peinture américaine, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, 01/16/1959 - 02/15/1959
Tate Britain, 02/24/1959 - 03/23/1959

New Aspects of Space
Martha Jackson Gallery (New York, New York), 04/09/1957 - 05/11/1957

1962
Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Weil, St. Louis

Inscription [on verso at LR of frame, white rectangular label] [written in blue pen or marker:] JACKSON / GALLERY

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