Public Collections

Debra Burchett-Lere, Executive Director/President and Beth Ann Whittaker-Williams, Associate Director, viewing Sam Francis, Deep Orange and Black, 1953–55, oil on canvas, Kunstmuseum Basel, Swizterland, 2017.
Debra Burchett-Lere, Executive Director/President and Beth Ann Whittaker-Williams, Associate Director, viewing Sam Francis, Deep Orange and Black, 1953–55, oil on canvas, Kunstmuseum Basel, Swizterland, 2017.

Works on canvas, paper, prints, and monotypes by Francis are in the permanent collections of over 130 public institutions throughout the world.

 

To view these collections in greater detail, please refer to collection documentation on the link below for the Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project.

 

This is an abridged list showing an example of the range of museums and institutions featuring the artist’s oeuvre:

 

United States

 

Alaska
General Services Administration, U.S. Federal Building, Anchorage (Figs. 1–2)

 

California
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
San Francisco International Airport, Collection of the City and County of San Francisco (Fig. 3)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

 

Connecticut
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

 

Florida
Perez Art Museum, Miami

 

Illinois
Art Institute of Chicago

 

Iowa
Des Moines Art Center

 

Louisiana
New Orleans Museum of Art

 

Massachusetts
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham
Worcester Art Museum

 

Michigan
Detroit Institute of Arts

 

Minnesota
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

 

Missouri
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis
Saint Louis Art Museum

 

New York
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

(Fig 1.) Francis in his Broadway studio, Santa Monica, with Spring Thaw, 1980, commissioned by the Art in Architecture Program of the U.S. General Services Administration for the U.S. Federal Building and Courthouse, Anchorage, Alaska. (Photographer unknown.)
(Fig. 2) Spring Thaw, 1980, installed in the U.S. Federal Building and Courthouse, Anchorage, 1980. (Photo courtesy General Services Administration, Washington, D.C.)
(Fig. 3) Untitled Triptych, 1980–82, installed at the San Francisco International Airport, 2009. (Collection of the City and County of San Francisco; photo by Angela Hanka.)
(Fig. 4) Untitled (Seafirst), 1979, acrylic on canvas. Generously Donated by Bank of America Corporation. Collection of The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina.
(Fig. 5) Center panel of Flemish Skies, 1986, in Grand Vestibule of Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels. The floor inlay is by Sol LeWitt. (Photo courtesy Archives of La Monnaie/De Munt, Brussels and Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris.)
(Fig. 6) Big Red II, 1979, in the symphony hall of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 1990. (Photo by Jens Frederiksen, courtesy Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.)
(Fig. 7) Coral Branch, 1971, in the original lobby of the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, n.d. (Photo courtesy Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Japan.)

North Carolina
Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte (Fig. 4)

 

Pennsylvania
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Philadelphia Museum of Art

 

Texas
Dallas Museum of Art
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
The Menil Collection, Houston

 

Wisconsin
Milwaukee Art Museum

 

Canada

 

Musée des beaux-arts de l’Ontario/Art Gallery of Ontario
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal/Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City

 

Europe

 

Austria
Albertina Kunst Museum Palais, Vienna

 

Belgium
Le Monnaie/De Munt, Brussels (Fig. 5)

 

Denmark
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (Fig. 6)

 

France
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Fonds national d’art contemporain at Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes
Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris
Musée de Grenoble

 

Germany
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
World Conference Center, Bonn

 

Netherlands
Museum Jan van der Togt, Amstelveen
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

 

Norway
Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo

 

Spain
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona

 

Sweden
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

 

Switzerland
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
Kunstmuseum Basel

 

United Kingdom

 

Tate, London
Ulster Museum, Belfast

 

Asia

 

Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Idemitsu Museum of Arts (Fig. 7)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki
Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa, Nagano

 

South Korea
Son Eun Arts and Cultural Foundation, Seoul

 

Australia

 

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Please register for the Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project to see the full listing.

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