About Sam Lewis Francis: Books

Books & Publications (167)

Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.

  • Sam Francis Catalogue Raisonne of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946-1994
    2011
    Agee, William; Edited by Burchett-Lere, Debra
    320 pages (color)
  • The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
    2005
    AskART.com Inc. -
    Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
    479 pages
  • Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
    2005
    Davenport, Ray
    2,421 pages
  • American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s: An Illustrated Survey
    2003
    Herskovic, Marika (editor)
    372 pages (color)
  • With an Eye and a Passion: Selections from The Marion Collection
    2003
    Sherman, Charlotte (Essay)
    38 pages (color)
  • California Watercolors 1850-1970, An Illustrated History & Biographical Dictionary
    2002
    McClelland, Gordon T; Jay T. Last
    231 pages (color)
  • Picasso to Pop: The Richard Weisman Collection
    2002
    Shea, Patricia (Editor)
    124 pages
  • Art Enterprises: Selections from the Collection
    2000
    Skold, Stacey (compiler)
    195 pages (color)
  • Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
    1999
    Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
    3,724 pages
  • The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making
    1999
    Passantino, Erika D (editor)
    819 pages (color)
  • California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media
    1998
    Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
    560 pages (color)
  • Bay Area Art From Morgan Flagg Collection
    1997
    Burgard, Timothy Anglin
    47 pages (color)
  • Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
    1996
    Barbara and Peter Toohil
    363 pages (color)
  • American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
    1996
    Hopps, Walter (others)
    320 pages (color)
  • The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1996
    Landauer, Susan
    271 pages (color)
  • Printmaking in America Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990
    1995
    Hansen, Trudy (others)
    248 pages (color)
  • Art Today
    1995
    Lucie-Smith, Edward
    512 pages (color)
  • The Art of Watercolor (Revised Edition)
    1994
    LeClair, Charles
    144 pages
  • Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
    1993
    Bowker R R
    1,473 pages
  • The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art
    1993
    Eitner, Lorenz (others)
    418 pages (color)
  • American Art in the 20th Century Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1993
    Joachimides, Christos (others)
    490 pages (color)
  • American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1992
    National Gallery of Art
    545 pages
  • Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945
    1991
    Hoffman, Katherine
    400 pages (color)
  • Large Scale Works on Paper
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1991
    John Berggruen Gallery
    47 pages (color)
  • Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
    1991
    Wheeler, Daniel
    344 pages (color)
  • Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1990
    Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes
    196 pages (color)
  • California Painters/New Work
    1989
    Hopkins, Henry
    143 pages (color)
  • The Story of Modern Art
    1989
    Lynton, Norbert
    400 pages (color)
  • Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
    1989
    Naylor, Colin (editor)
    1,059 pages
  • Universal Limited Art Editions History and Catalogue/the 1st 25 Years
    1989
    Sparks, Esther
    552 pages (color)
  • John Berggruen Gallery Works on Paper
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1988
    Berggruen, John
    97 pages (color)
  • The Influence of Oriental Thought on Postwar American Painting and Sculpture
    1988
    Clarke, David J
    410 pages
  • Twentieth Century Watercolors
    1988
    Finch, Christopher
    310 pages (color)
  • The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
    1988
    Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
    376 pages (color)
  • Inside the L A Artist
    1988
    Marrow, Marva
    104 pages (color)
  • A Concise History of Modern Painting
    1988
    Read, Herbert
    418 pages (color)
  • Masterworks on Paper from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
    1987
    Brutvan, Cheryl
    168 pages (color)
  • Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
    1987
    Cummings, Paul
    653 pages
  • Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
    1987
    Feldman, Edmund Burke
    528 pages (color)
  • Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972
    1987
    Krane, Susan
    379 pages (color)
  • 125 Masterpieces: From the Collection of Albright-Knox
    1987
    Schultz, Douglas (Intro)
    264 pages (color)
  • American Watercolors
    1986
    Finch, Christopher
    312 pages (color)
  • An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1986
    Hunter, Sam
    269 pages (color)
  • Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
    1986
    Jaques Cattell Press
    1,292 pages
  • American Painting: The Twentieth Century (Second edition)
    1986
    Rose, Barbara
    170 pages (color)
  • Forty Years of Modern Art 1945-19
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1986
    Tate Gallery
    120 pages (color)
  • 300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
    1986
    Zellman, Michael David
    1,102 pages (color)
  • American Drawings and Watercolors In The Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1985
    Adams, Henry; John Caldwell, John Lane et all
    314 pages (color)
  • Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History
    1985
    Albright, Thomas
    349 pages (color)
  • Twentieth Century Artists on Art
    1985
    Ashton, Dore (Editor)
    302 pages
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
    1985
    DuPont, Diana, K Holland
    402 pages (color)
  • Cinquante Ans de Dessins Americai 1930-1980
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1985
    Ecole Nationale/Beaux-Arts
    290 pages (color)
  • American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
    1985
    Krantz, Les
    347 pages (color)
  • American Art Now
    1985
    Lucie-Smith, Edward
    160 pages (color)
  • With an Eye to American Art
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1985
    Miller, Dorothy C
    16 pages
  • Art In A Turbulent Era
    1985
    Selz, Peter
    390 pages
  • Dallas Museum of Art Selected Works
    1984
    Bromberg, Anne R
    219 pages (color)
  • The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How
    1984
    DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones
    320 pages
  • American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum
    1984
    Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators)
    88 pages (color)
  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection
    1984
    Hunter, Sam
    599 pages (color)
  • Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition
    1984
    Lucie-Smith, Edward
    288 pages (color)
  • World Artists 1950-1980
    1984
    Marks, Claude
    912 pages
  • Art of the States Works from a Santa Barbara Collection
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1984
    McDonald, Robert; Richard Vincent West
    80 pages (color)
  • The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
    1984
    Orr-Cahill, Christina
    199 pages (color)
  • Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection
    1984
    Severinghaus, J Walter
    333 pages (color)
  • American Printmaking A Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980
    1984
    Watrous, James
    334 pages (color)
  • American Lithographers 1900-1960: The Artists and Their Printers
    1983
    Adams, Clinton
    228 pages (color)
  • 100 Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections Washington D C
    1983
    Brown, Milton W
    240 pages (color)
  • Prints A Collector's Guide
    1983
    Kaplan, Ellen
    253 pages
  • California Contemporary Recent Work of Twenty Three Artists
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1983
    Monterey Peninsula Museum
    63 pages
  • The First Show (1940-1980) Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1983
    Museum of Contemporary Art
    293 pages (color)
  • The American Artist as Printmaker
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1983
    Walker, Barry
    144 pages (color)
  • American Art Since 1945
    1982
    Ashton, Dore
    224 pages (color)
  • Sam Francis (revised/expanded edition)
    1982
    Selz, Peter
    296 pages (color)
  • American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1982
    Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
    213 pages
  • Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1981
    Armstrong, Tom
    301 pages (color)
  • Decade Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1981
    Art Center College of Design
    108 pages (color)
  • Southern California Artists 1940-1980
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1981
    Ball, Maudette
    66 pages (color)
  • American Prints: Process and Proofs
    1981
    Goldman, Judith
    176 pages (color)
  • Fifty West Coast Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in California
    1981
    Hopkins, Henry; Mimi Jacobs (illustration)
    128 pages (color)
  • The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
    1981
    Osborne, Harold
    656 pages (color)
  • The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
    1981
    Rugoff, Milton
    669 pages (color)
  • Larousse Dictionary of Painters (Americans included in world listing)
    1981
    Smith, Alistair (intro)
    467 pages (color)
  • Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties Seventeen Artists in the Sixties
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1981
    Tuchman, Maurice
    162 pages (color)
  • Contemporary, Painting
    1981
    Vogt, Paul
    134 pages (color)
  • The Guggenheim Museum Collection Handbook/ 1900-1980
    1980
    Barnett, Vivian Endicott
    526 pages (color)
  • Los Angeles Prints 1883-1980
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1980
    Feinblatt, Ebria/Bruce Davis
    111 pages
  • American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists
    1980
    Johnson, Una E
    266 pages (color)
  • Dictionary of American Art
    1979
    Baigell, Mathew
    390 pages
  • American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
    1979
    Brown, Milton W (others)
    616 pages (color)
  • American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
    1979
    Doumato, Lamia
    246 pages
  • Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
    1979
    Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
    736 pages
  • Contemporary American Prints
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1979
    Towle, Tony/Peter Gale
    64 pages (color)
  • Frederick Weisman Collection California Art
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1978
    California State U Long Beach
    64 pages (color)
  • The New York School The Painters & Sculptors of the Fifties
    1978
    Sandler, Irving
    366 pages (color)
  • Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
    1977
    Barr, Alfred H
    655 pages
  • Works on Paper 1900-1960 From Southern California Collections
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1977
    Pomona College
    132 pages (color)
  • American Painting From the Colonial Period to the Present
    1977
    Prown, Jules/Barbara Rose
    277 pages (color)
  • American Art in Belgium
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1977
    Societe des Expositions
    175 pages (color)
  • Heritage and Horizon American Painting 1776-1976
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1976
    Albright-Knox Art Gallery
    80 pages (color)
  • 30 Years of American Printmaking Including 20th National Print Exhibition
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1976
    Baro, Gene
    160 pages (color)
  • American Prints 1913-1963
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1976
    Castelman, Riva
    160 pages
  • Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
    1976
    Jaques Cattell Press
    756 pages
  • Painting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era
    1976
    San Francisco Mus Modern Art
    272 pages (color)
  • Acquisition Priorities Aspects of Postwar Painting in America
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1976
    Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
    120 pages (color)
  • American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper
    1976
    Stebbins, Theodore E
    464 pages (color)
  • The Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of Collections
    1975
    Buckley, Charles E
    377 pages (color)
  • Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
    1975
    Editor, Smithsonian
    0 pages
  • American Art Since 1945 From the Collection of MOMA
    1975
    Legg, Alicia
    84 pages (color)
  • Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries
    1975
    Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman
    246 pages
  • Santa Fe Collects
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1975
    Santa Fe Festival of the Arts
    64 pages (color)
  • Sam Francis
    1975
    Selz, Peter
    260 pages (color)
  • Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
    1974
    Baur, John I H
    235 pages (color)
  • American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures
    1974
    Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
    80 pages
  • Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections
    1974
    Gidley, Mick
    58 pages
  • Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast
    1974
    Plagens, Peter
    200 pages (color)
  • Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1974
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1974
    University of Illinois
    136 pages
  • A History of American Painting
    1973
    Bennett, Ian
    240 pages (color)
  • Catalogue of Painting Collection Museum of Art
    1973
    Carnegie Institute
    196 pages (color)
  • Contemporary Art Exploring It's Roots and Development
    1973
    Johnson, Charlotte Buel
    96 pages (color)
  • 25 Years of American Painting 1948-1973
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1973
    Kozloff, Max (intro)
    72 pages (color)
  • Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art
    1973
    Onn, Gerald (Translator)
    0 pages
  • American Art Third Quarter Century
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1973
    Van Der Marck, Jan
    138 pages (color)
  • Sam Francis Paintings 1947-1972
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1972
    Buck, Robert T (others)
    147 pages (color)
  • American Art of the 20th Century
    1972
    Hunter, Sam
    487 pages (color)
  • Contemporary Art 1942-72
    1972
    Sandler, Irving (intro)
    479 pages (color)
  • Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
    1971
    Bell, David
    2,139 pages (color)
  • Thirty-Second Biennial Exhibition Contemporary American Painting
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1971
    Corcoran Gallery of Art
    79 pages
  • Inaugural Exhibition 19th & 20th Cen Art from Collections of Alumni
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1970
    Blumenthal, Arthur
    144 pages
  • L'art Vivant aux Etats-Unis
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1970
    Fondation Maeght
    164 pages (color)
  • Guggenheim Museum Collection Selections from/1900-1970
    1970
    Guggenheim Museum
    437 pages (color)
  • Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
    1970
    Myers, Bernard S (editor)
    511 pages (color)
  • American Painting The Twentieth Century
    1970
    Rose, Barbara
    116 pages
  • West Coast 1945-1969
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1969
    Coplans, John
    60 pages
  • Contemporary Art Dialogue between East and West
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1969
    National Mus Mod Art, Tokyo
    114 pages (color)
  • The Reach of Modern Art A Concise History
    1969
    Weston, Neville
    240 pages
  • Sixteenth National Print Exhibition Two Decades of American Prints 1947-1968
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1968
    Brooklyn Museum
    63 pages
  • An American Collection The Neuberger Collection
    1968
    Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott
    463 pages (color)
  • Sam Francis
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1968
    Schmied, Wieland
    60 pages (color)
  • Signals in the Sixties
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1968
    Sweeney, James Johnson
    1,968 pages
  • The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art
    1968
    Weller, Allen S
    185 pages
  • Sources for Tomorrow: 50 American Paintings 1946-1966 James Michener Collection of Allentown Art Museum
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1967
    Hirsch, Richard
    48 pages
  • American Art Since 1900 A Critical History
    1967
    Rose, Barbara
    320 pages (color)
  • Sam Francis
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1967
    Sweeney, James Johnson
    54 pages
  • Two Decades of American Painting Gendai Amerika Kaiga Ten
    1967
    Tokyo, Museum of Modern Art
    81 pages (color)
  • History of Water Color in America
    1966
    Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck
    160 pages (color)
  • New Art Around the World
    1966
    Hunter, Sam (chapter on US)
    510 pages (color)
  • 200 Years of Watercolor Painting Centennial of American Watercolor Society
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1966
    Metropolitan Museum of Art
    64 pages
  • New Tendencies in Art
    1966
    Pellegrini, Aldo
    320 pages (color)
  • Seven Americans
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1965
    Buki, Zoltan
    28 pages
  • Drawing Society National Exhibiti 1965
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1965
    Drawing Society
    108 pages
  • American Painting in the Twentieth Century
    1965
    Geldzahler, Henry
    236 pages
  • American Painting 1910 to 1960 50th Anniversary Exhibition College Unions
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1964
    Indiana University Museum
    80 pages
  • 20th Century Drawings Part I:1900-1940/Part II 1940 to the Present
    1964
    Johnson, Una E
    284 pages (color)
  • American Drawings
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1964
    Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
    48 pages
  • One Cent Life
    1964
    Ting, Walasse, Author and Sam Francis, Editor
    172 pages (color)
  • New Directions in American Painting: A Loan Exhibition
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1963
    Brandeis University
    48 pages
  • 20th Century Master Drawings
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1963
    Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
    104 pages
  • American Art Since 1950 A Loan Exhibition
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1962
    Hunter, Sam
    83 pages (color)
  • Art U S A Now (2 volumes)
    1962
    Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness
    474 pages (color)
  • American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1961
    Solomon R Guggenheim Museum
    1,961 pages
  • Art Now An Introduction to the Theory of Modern Painting
    1960
    Read, Herbert
    326 pages (color)
  • 60 American Painters 1960 Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1960
    Walker Art Center
    78 pages (color)
  • Jackson Pollock et la Nouvelle Peinture Americaine
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1959
    Musee National D'Art Moderne
    64 pages
  • La Nouvelle Peinture Americaine The New American Painting
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1958
    Museum of Modern Art
    88 pages (color)
  • Die neue amerikanische Malerei The New American Painting
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1958
    Museum of Modern Art
    50 pages
  • 12 Americans: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1956
    Miller, Dorothy C
    96 pages (color)