Sam Francis [graphic]. 1950?

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Sam Francis [graphic]. 1950?

Side view portrait of Francis. Identification on verso (stamped): Sam Francis with one of his lithographs.

1 photographic print : b&w ; 10 x 13 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8227024

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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...