Sam Francis Works Online
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Original works by Sam Francis available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
19 works online when last checked
Sam Francis at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
8 works by Sam Francis
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Works from the Kenneth Tyler Collection of international prints
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Blue, 1958
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Untitled, screenprint, 1986 (part of a brief slideshow)
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Crocker Art Museum, California
LA, 1976
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Untittled
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "F"
Sam Francis in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Untitled, 1965
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Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
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Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Québec
Abstraction, 1954
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French) 
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Museum Jan van der Togt, Amstelveen, Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
Untitled, 1966
Sam Francis at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Gemini G.E.L. prints
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Colors Over, 1957
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Untitled, 1986
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California
Untitled, 1979
Seattle Art Museum
Night and Day
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Untitled (abstraction)
Sam Francis at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Albertina, Vienna
Dream It Is, 1962-63
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Repository of Abstract Art
UBS Financial Services Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Sam Francis 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Biography only
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