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Painter, b. 1940 - d. 2017

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    • FRANCIS A. SPROUT (1940 - 2017) El Medio from Convent Street.
      Mar. 31, 2022

      FRANCIS A. SPROUT (1940 - 2017) El Medio from Convent Street.

      Est: $1,000 - $1,500

      FRANCIS A. SPROUT (1940 - 2017) El Medio from Convent Street. Graphite on cream wove paper, 1995. 533x419 mm; 21x16 1/2 inches. Signed, titled, dated "9/4/95" and inscribed © in pencil, lower margin. From the artist's Plaques series Provenance: private collection, New York. This intriguing drawing is from Sprout's later career exploration of the forms of plaques, doorways, books and masks. Sprout considered them as both spiritual and physical vehicles as well as gateways between African and Western culture. Sprout is best known for his 1970s Muslim Tile Pattern series of paintings and prints, and his painting Azo had pride of place at the Johnson Publishing Company - hanging in the executive dining room. Born and raised in Arizona, Sprout studied studio art and art education in the School of Art at the University of Arizona in the 1960s. He enrolled in the MFA program of the University of California, San Diego, in fall 1970, where he progressed from figuration into abstraction, and learned of Islamic ornamentation and imagery in his art history studies of North African culture. Sprout had a long career as a painter, printmaker and art educator. He taught visual art through the 1980s in Denver; first at the University of Denver before becoming a tenured professor at Metropolitan State College. He took a sabbatical, returning to Los Angeles in 1984, and earned an MA in African Studies with a concentration on African art history from UCLA in 1990. Sprout moved to Purchase, New York with his wife, museum director and curator Lucinda Gedeon, where he taught at Purchase College and the Pratt Institute of Art. They then moved to Vero Beach, Florida, where Sprout continued to teach and paint. Sprout exhibited widely, and his artwork is in the collections of Arizona State University Museum of Art, the Neuberger Museum of Art, the Johns Manville Corporation, Atlanta and Pfizer Learning Center, Rye Brook, New York.

      Swann Auction Galleries
    • FRANCIS SPROUT (AFRICAN-AMERICAN, 1940-2017).
      Nov. 08, 2020

      FRANCIS SPROUT (AFRICAN-AMERICAN, 1940-2017).

      Est: $4,000 - $6,000

      Mixed media on canvas. "Cultural Confluence". 2001. Signed, titled, and dated verso. From a New Rochelle, NY collection.

      Clarke Auction Gallery
    • FRANCIS A. SPROUT (1940 - 2017) Azo.
      Jan. 30, 2020

      FRANCIS A. SPROUT (1940 - 2017) Azo.

      Est: $15,000 - $25,000

      FRANCIS A. SPROUT (1940 - 2017) Azo. Acrylic on cotton canvas, 1971. 2134x2134 mm; 84x84 inches. Signed, dated "Aug 71" and titled in ink, upper right verso. From the artist's Moslem Tile Patterns series. Provenance: the Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., Chicago. Azo had pride of place in the Johnson Publishing Company - hanging in the executive dining room of President John H. Johnson Exhibited: A Johnson Publishing Story, Stony Island Art Bank, Chicago, IL, June 28, 2018 – September 30, 2018; Theaster Gates: Assembly Hall, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, September 5, 2019 – January 12, 2020. Illustrated: Ebony, Sept. 1972, pp. 86-87. A special 1972 Ebony feature celebrating its new corporate offices. This captivatingly colorful abstraction is an excellent, early painting of Francis Sprout. The title Azo refers to azo dyes which are the synthetic colors used in textiles, printing and painting. Sprout's bold composition of interlacing geometric outlines are from his Muslim Tile Patternseries of paintings and prints from the early 1970s. Born and raised in Arizona, Francis Sprout studied studio art and art education in the School of Art at the University of Arizona in the 1960s. He enrolled in the MFA program of the University of California, San Diego, in the fall of 1970, where he progressed from figuration into abstraction, and learned of Islamic ornamentation and imagery in his art history studies of North African culture. Azo is part of a body of 13 vivid acrylic paintings that became Sprout's gradaute thesis exhibition at UCSD in 1972. He continued to paint large scale, color field abstraction through the 1970s. Sprout had a long career as a painter, printmaker and art educator. He taught visual art through the 1980s in Denver, first at the University of Denver, and then became a tenured professor at Metropolitan State College. He took a sabattical, returning to Los Angeles in 1984, and earned an MA in African Studies with a concentration on African art history from UCLA in 1990. Sprout went back to teach at Arizona State University before moving to Purchase, New York, with his wife, museum director and curator Lucinda Gedeon, where he taught at Purchase College and the Pratt Institute of Art. They then moved to Vero Beach, Florida where Sprout continued to teach and paint. Sprout exhibited widely and his artwork is in the collections of Arizona State University Museum of Art, the Neuberger Museum of Art, the Johns Manville Corporation, Atlanta and Pfizer Learning Center, Rye Brook, New York.

      Swann Auction Galleries
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