Petallic (SFM85-008)
Sam Francis
Petallic (SFM85-008)
monoprint
1985
An original hand-signed Sam Francis monoprint print.
1985
Unique monotype with mixed media (woodcut, LeFranc and/or Windsor Newton oils, dry pigments, watercolors, and ink) on handmade rag paper
Hand-signed in pencil in the margin lower right Sam Francis
Published by the Experimental Workshop, San Francisco, bearing its identification number “SF.SF.03-#06-1985” verso. Also annotated with the Litho Shop’s workshop number “SFM85-008” on the verso.
Image Size: 21 x 27 inches
Sheet Size: 26 x 30 inches (irregular edges)
Framed Size: 35 3/4 x 39 3/4 x 1 3/4 inches
Petallic is a unique monotype and was documented in 1985 by Francis’s studio, the Litho Shop, with the identification number: SFM85-008. It is also numbered in pencil on the paper verso by the Garner Tullis Workshop (GTW) with number: SF.SF.03-#06-1985.
Francis worked in collaboration with Garner Tullis for many years, creating hundreds of unique monotypes.
In 1972 Garner Tullis and his wife, Ann Tullis, founded the Institute of Experimental Printmaking in Santa Cruz, California. It became the Experimental Workshop (EXP) in 1976 when it was relocated to San Francisco. Garner Tullis left the company in 1982 and opened his own studio, Garner Tullis Workshop (GTW), in Emeryville, California and subsequently print studios in Santa Barbara, New York City and Urbino, Italy. The Experimental Workshop continued to be owned and run by Ann McLaughlin (formerly Tullis) and her husband, printer Will Foo.
