Sam Francis
1923 Born June 25 in San Mateo, CA
1943 - 1948 Served in the United States Army Corps and began painting whilst convalescing from an injury
1949 B.A. University of California at Berkeley, CA
1946 - 1950 Began painting in San Francisco
1950 M.A. University of California at Berkeley, CA
1950 - 1958 Lived and worked in Paris, with travels to Mexico, Japan and Europe
1968 Received honorary PhD from University of California at Berkeley, CA
1970 Established the Litho Shop to print his own lithographs in Santa Monica
1994 Honoured with Distinguished Alumnus Award by the University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, which also then created the Sam Francis Scholarship
1994 Died November 4, Santa Monica
Selected Exhibitions
2004
Galerie Delaive, Amsterdam
Baukunst Galerie, Cologne
2003
Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Beverly Hills, California, Special Proofs, 1963-1989
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Iwaki City Art, Fukushima, Japan
Oita Art Museum, Oita, Japan
2002
Galerie Andreas Baumgarti, Munich
Lovers Fine Arts
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama , Japan
Kawamura Memorial Museum, Chiba, Japan
Museum of Art, Eime, Japan
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2001
Alan Cristea Gallery, London, in association with Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art
1999 - 2001
Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1990, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles- travelled to Menil Collection, Texas; Malmo Konsthall, Sweden; the Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Galleria Comunale d'Art Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
2000
Lawrence Rubin, Greenberg, Van Doren Fine Art, New York
Galerie Delaive, Amsterdam, Holland
Richard Gray Gallery, New York and Chicago
Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan
1999
Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles; Robert Green Fine Arts, California; Gallery Faurschou, Copenhagen; Ikon Ltd., Los Angeles; Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Pascal Retelet, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France; Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris; Baukunst Galerie, Cologne; Pace Editions, New York; Galerie Loeper, Hamburg
Retrospective: Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1990, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1998
Dorothy Blau Gallery, Florida; Thomas Segal Gallery, Baltimore; ACA Galerie, Munich; Gallery Guy Pieters, Knokke, Belguim; Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Los Angeles; Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam; Galleria d’Arte il Gabbiano, Rome
1997
Sam Francis: The Archetypal Image, Frederick M. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University of Malibu ? travelled to The Fundacion Caja de Madrid, Spain
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York; Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles; Museo d’Arte, Mendrisio, Switzerland; Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago; Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam; Galerie Pascal Retelet, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
1996
Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto; Sogetsu Art Museum, Tokyo; Galerie Delaive, Amsterdam; Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles; Gallery Guy Pieters, Knokke, Belgium; Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin; Galerie Proarta, Zurich
1995
The Last Paintings of Sam Francis at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York; Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles; Grunwald/UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles;
Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany; Les Annees Parisiennes 1950-1961 at the Galerie National du Jeu de Paume, Paris
'The Last Paintings of Sam Francis' a group of 152 small paintings (painted June through August, 1994, at the Santa Monica house studio), The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1994
Honored with Distinguished Alumnus Award by The University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, which also then created the Sam Francis Scholarship
Long Fine Arts, New York; Galerie Delaive, Amsterdam; Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris; Galerie Proarta, Zurich; Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York; Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo; Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
1993
Retrospective exhibition at Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Switzerland; Bobbie Greenfield Fine Art, Los Angeles; Michele Cohen Gallery, New York; Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho; Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angels; Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos
Donated ten major paintings to The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1992
Galerie Daniel Papierski, Paris
Museum van der Togt, Amsterdam, Holland
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1991
Retrospective at Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland
Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris; James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles; Angles Gallery, Los Angeles; Associated American Artists, New York; Gagosian Gallery, New York; Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrenees, France
1990
Associated American Artists, New York; GalleryDelaive, Amsterdam; Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm; Ogawa Art Foundation, Tokyo; Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York; Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto
1989
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris; Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London; Sun Valley Center Gallery, Idaho; Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle; Cantor/Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan; Knoedler Gallery, London 1987 - 1989 Founded the Sam Francis Medical Research Center to support the research of infectious and environmental diseases
1988
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York; Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris; Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo; Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto; Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis; Galerie Seoul, Korea
Travelling exhibition throughout Japan organized by The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama and Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1987
Knoedler Gallery, London; Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York; Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara; Heland Thorden Wetterling Galleries, Stockholm, Sweden; G. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore; Galeria Eude, Barcelona, Spain; Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany; Lever/Meyerson Galleries, New York
1986
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York; Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris; Nantenshi Gallery, Toyko; Angles Gallery, Santa Monica; La Mairie de Paris, France
1985
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern; Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris; Nantenshi Gallery, Toyko; Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago; Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto; Hokin Gallery, Florida
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1984
Established Lapis Press to publish artists’ books
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York; Pamela Auchincloss, Gallery, Santa Barbara; Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York; Cantor/Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan; Robert Elkon Gallery, New York; Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla; Knoedler Gallery, London, UK; Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles; Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
1983
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York; Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland; Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto; Foundation Maeght, Saint Paul de Vence, France; Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy; Colorado State University, Colorado; Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris; Art Attack Gallery, Idaho; John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco; nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
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