Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Tom Field went to art school in Fort Wayne and was then an army surgery assistant in Korea. He attended Black Mountain College and was influenced by Willem DeKooning and Franz Kline. Joseph Fiore in New York was his primary teacher.
Tom Field settled in San Francisco and alternated intense times of painting with shipping out as a merchant seaman. He was very much outside the San Francisco art scene, but in 1997 the 871 Fine Arts Gallery in San Francisco gave (showing 500 of 1862 characters). |
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