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Sam Francis Online Catalogue Raisonné Project
Catalogue Entry
SFF.22 (Francis Archive SFP44-2; SFP47-23)
Untitled
Alternate title: By the Sea
Oil on canvas
40.64 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Artist date designation: Undated
Inscriptions: Unsigned
Creation location: San Francisco Bay Area [?]
Collection: Inglis Family, California (ca. 1948)
Exhibitions
1948 San Francisco Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Sixty-Seventh Oil, Tempera and Sculpture Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, February 4–29, 1948. (Exhibition catalogue: San Francisco Museum of Art 1948), no. 53, no ill., as By the Sea.Literature References
Burchett-Lere and Agee 2011
Burchett-Lere, Debra, ed. Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946–1994. Berkeley, California: University of California Press and Sam Francis Foundation, 2011, cat. no. 22, ill. in color on DVD I.Notes
Portions of this entry are from Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonné of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946–1994. Published by the Regents of the University of California/University of California Press (2011). Reproduced with permission.
Record last updated April 8, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Current catalogue view includes a section of unique works on paper, canvas and panel paintings, limited editions, sculpture and ephemeral pieces
of the artist's oeuvre and will beupdated continuously, sometimes out of chronological order.
Citation: Burchett-Lere, Debra, ed. "Untitled, Undated (SFF.22)." In Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project. cr.samfrancisfoundation.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=8369 (accessed on September 15, 2026). [ISBN-13: 978-1-7339663-1-3]
of the artist's oeuvre and will beupdated continuously, sometimes out of chronological order.
Citation: Burchett-Lere, Debra, ed. "Untitled, Undated (SFF.22)." In Sam Francis: Online Catalogue Raisonné Project. cr.samfrancisfoundation.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=8369 (accessed on September 15, 2026). [ISBN-13: 978-1-7339663-1-3]