 Fran Reynolds is primarily known as Fran Spencer-Reynolds
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Biography from AskART:
| Post War California artist, Fran Spencer Reynolds studied under Margaret Peterson at the University of California, Berkeley receiving her B.A. in 1947 and M.A. in 1950. From 1946-47 she also studied at the California School of Fine Arts under Clyfford Still (now The San Francisco Art Institute). Spencer won many awards early in her career. She could not cope with her success and the pressure from dealers wanting to show her work and completely disappeared from the art scene by the late 1950's. Her paintings are extremely rare.
Solo Exhibitions: Metart Gallery, 1950; Ansel Adam's Studio, San
Francisco 1953; Area Arts Gallery, San Francisco, 1955.
Selected Group Exhibitions: 68th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition
of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art,
1949 (Prize); 69th Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San
Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1950 (Prize);
Awards: Artists' Council Prize for Painting, San Francisco Art Association
1949.
Literature: Susan Landauer, The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism; Thomas Albright, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980
Source:
David J Carlson, Carlson Gallery, California. Carlson's specialty is Post-World War II California artists, and he is preparing a catalogue for a 2004 traveling exhibition of these artists to several California museums.
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