Betty Freeman papers

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Betty Freeman papers

1951-1969

Research material on painters Clyfford Still (1904-1980) and Sam Francis (1923-1994), including correspondence, photographs, notes, and unpublished drafts of manuscripts.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6757950

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Freeman, Betty, 1916-

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American photographer, philanthropist, and patron of new music and contemporary composers. Since the mid-1960s, Freeman has served on the board of directors for the Pasadena Art Museum's concert program and for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Freeman is also the photographer of a series of portraits of prominent contemporary musicians, published as Music people and others (1987), and the producer of a documentary film about Harry Partch entitled The dreamer that remains (1972). ...

Francis, Sam, 1923-1994

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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 Franci...

Still, Clyfford, 1904-1980

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