Francis, Sam, 1923-1994

California born artist Sam Francis was a second generation Abstract Expressionist painter who incorporated influences of Jungian psychology, Buddhism, and Japanese watercolor into the urban and angst-ridden painting style of the New York School. After living abroad in Paris and Japan, he settled in Los Angeles, where he founded a print press, the Litho Shop, a book publishing enterprise, Lapis Press, and painted prolifically until his death in 1994.

From the description of Sam Francis papers 1916-2010, (bulk 1950-1994) (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80343168

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