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Birth
1923 (San Mateo, California)
Death
1994 (Santa Monica, California)
Lived/Active
California / Japan/France
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© 2001 Estate of Sam Francis / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Often Known For
splatter-stain imagery painting, graphics
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Abstract Expressionism
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The following was compiled and written by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California:
Sam Francis was born in San Mateo, California in 1923, the son of a mathematics professor. In 1941 he began a premedical course at the University of California at Berkeley, but he dropped out in 1943 to join the United States Army Air Corps. He landed in a United States Army hospital following a spinal injury during flight training. Flat on his bac (showing 500 of 12880 characters). |
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