Oil on canvas, signed lower right, 1970, retains Weatherspoon Art Gallery label to verso, gallery wrapped canvas, unframed.

70 x 60 in.

Deaccessioned from and being sold to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC Greensboro

Gifted to Weatherspoon Art Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky, who acquired it from the artist in 1976.

Francisco's style, developed during the 1950s, centered on figures, often in Spanish dress, isolated against colorful landscapes. In New York, Mr. Sainz became acquainted with many members of the New York School of painters, including Willem de Kooning, Lester Johnson and Alfred Leslie. Sainz also painted portraits of saints and historical figures, including George Washington, General Franco and Grandma Moses. In the 1960s he had several solo shows with the Dorsky Gallery in Manhattan, including a show in 1969 of painted masks that he had started to make a few years earlier. His most recent exhibition was at the Morgan Rank Gallery in East Hampton in 1993.

Good condition with some moisture toning to verso of canvas, stable craquelure to center cloud shape, a few small areas of paint loss to lower stretcher edge.