Francis, Henry Sayles, 1902-1994

Henry Sayles Francis was born March 4, 1902 in Boston, Massachusetts to parents George Tappan Francis and Frances Coren Brown.

After earning a degree in art history from Harvard University, Francis worked at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Francis worked at the Cleveland Museum of Art from 1927 to 1929. He left to serve as Assistant to the Co-directors at the Fogg Museum and returned to work at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1931. Francis served as Art Historian and Curator of Prints and Paintings at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio until his retirement in 1967.

Henry Sayles Francis, Sr. lived in Walpole New Hampshire after his retirement and died on January 4, 1994 at Springfield Memorial Hospital in Springfield, Vermont.