21 Jun Sam Francis on Painting, 1957
“What we want to make is something that fills utterly the sight, and can’t be used to make life only bearable; if the painting till now was a way of making bearable the sight of the unbearable, the visual sumptuous, then let’s now strip away… all that.”
– Sam Francis in a letter to MOMA curator Dorothy Miller in 1957
Sam Francis installing his 1957 show at the Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.
Photo courtesy Martha Jackson Gallery Archives:
University at Buffalo
Anderson Gallery, State University of New York at Buffalo
Anderson Gallery, State University of New York at Buffalo
The above quote and photo are from:
The Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946–1994
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