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Karel Appel Sam Francis Paul Jenkins Nicholas Krushenik Reuben Nakian Norman Bluhm Larry Rivers Julian Stanczak Jiro Takamatsu Antoni Tapies Sofu Teshigahara Victor Vasarely Andy Warhol Henry Moore Marino Marini Jean-Paul Riopelle Fernand Leger Mark Wiener Roberto Matta John Matos |
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| Samuel Lewis Francis
(June 25, 1923 - November 4, 1994) was an American painter and printmaker.
He was born in San Mateo, California, and studied botany, medicine and
psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He served in the
United States Air Force during World War II before being injured in a
plane crash. He was in the hospital for several years, and it was while
there that he began to paint. Once out of the hospital he returned to
Berkeley, this time to study art. Francis was initially influenced by the work of abstract expressionists such as Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky and Clyfford Still. He spent the 1950s in Paris, having his first exhibition there in 1952. While there he became associated with Tachisme. He later spent time in Japan, and some have seen an influence from Zen Buddhism in his work. Francis returned to California during the 1960s and continued painting in Los Angeles. During the final three decades of his career his style of large scale bright Abstract expressionism was also closely associated with Color field painting. |
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