- Nishimachi International School
- San Mateo High School
- University of California, Berkeley
- San Francisco Art Institute
Sam Francis developed luminous abstractions from floating pools, splashes and later edge-bound fields of color. Extended periods in Paris, Tokyo and California gave his practice an unusually international postwar context.
Painting; printmaking
Artist Films
Book Launch | The Space of Effusion: Sam Francis in Japan
LACMA67 minOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Major Works
- Big Red
- Blue Balls series
- Around the Blues
- In Lovely Blueness
- Middle Blue
- Towards Disappearance
- Untitled, 1956
- Basel Mural triptych
- Edge paintings
- Tokyo series
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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