Art Institute of Chicago

In Lovely Blueness No. 2

Sam Francis · 1955/56

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist, 1956–59; sold, Martha Jackson Gallery to J. Patrick Lannan, Palm Beach, 1959; given to the Lannan Foundation, 1961; partially sold and given to the Art Institute, 1997.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

San Francisco Museum of Art, “Paintings by Sam Francis, Wally Hedrick and Fred Martin; Sculpture by Wally Hedrick and Manuel Neri,” February 3–22, 1959; traveled to Pasadena Art Museum, March 3–April 10, 1959, and Seattle Art Museum, April 24–May 17, 1959, exh. pamphlet, cat. 3, as “In Lonely Blueness.”
Los Angeles, Lannan Foundation, “Abstraction II,” October 21, 1991–February 8, 1992, no cat.
Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, “Sam Francis,” February 12–April 18, 1993, curated by Pontus Hulten; traveled to Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, October 24, 1993–January 9, 1994, p. 117 (color ill.).

Literature

Yves Michaud, “Sam Francis, Paris années 50,” “Art Press” 170 (July/August 1988), p. 20.
“Sam Francis: les années parisiennes, 1950–1961,” exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, 1995), pp. 29, 32, 178, 182, 193.
“Annual Report 1996–97” (Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), p. 15.
“Modern and Contemporary Art: The Lannan Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago,” “Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies” 25, 1 (1999), pp. 6, 16–17 (color ill.).

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