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SAM FRANCIS - Works and History

Sam Francis - SF-204, 1975

SAM FRANCIS

CURRENTLY WE HAVE NO ART WORK
by SAM FRANCIS

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Curriculum Vitae

1923
Born in San Mateo, CA

1943 – 1948
Served in the United States Army Corps and began painting while convalescing from an injury

1949
BA, University of California, Berkeley, CA

1946 – 1950
Began painting in San Francisco, CA

1950
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, CA

1950 – 1958
Lived and worked in Paris, France with travels to Mexico, Japan, and Europe

1959
Lived in New York, NY

1959 – 1961
Lived in Bern, Switzerland

1961
Established permanent home in Santa Monica, CA

1968
Received honorary PhD from University of California, Berkeley, CA

1970
Established the Litho Shop to print his own lithographs in Santa Monica, CA

1973 – 1974
Lived and painted primarily in Tokyo, Japan

1975 – 1977
Began collaborating with Garner Tullis on monotypes at the Institute of Experimental Printing, San Francisco, CA

1981
Appointed Commandeur de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, by the French Ministry of Culture

1984
Established Lapis Press to publish artists’ books

1987 – 1989
Founded the Sam Francis Medical Research Center to support the research of infectious and environmental diseases

1993
Donated ten major paintings to The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

1994
Honoured with Distinguished Alumnus Award by the University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, which also then created the Sam Francis Scholarship, Berkeley, CA

1994
Died in Santa Monica, CA

Selected Exhibitions

2013 – 2014
Sam Francis: Five Decades of Abstract Experssionism from California Collections, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, USA (solo)

2013
Renard Collection, Fondation Beijeler, Basel, Switzerland

2012
Sam Francis: Works from the 1950s on paper and canvas, Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA
Sam Francis, Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos, Switzerland

2011
Sam Francis The exploration of color, Sotheby’s (S2) New York, USA (solo)
Sam Francis, Guy Pieters Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
Sam Francis: Paintings from the Catalogue Raisonné, Gallery Delaive, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Sam Francis, Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos, Switzerland (solo)

2009
Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Sam Francis – Malerei und Grafik, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany

2008
Choices, Galerie Willy Schoots, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Action Painting, Foundation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

2007
Grand Gestures: The Gordon F. Hampton Collection, University Art Museum, Long Beach, USA
Art Market Now, The Columns, Seoul, South Korea

2006
Afro & incotri e Confronti italia America, Gallerie d’Arte Moderna di Udine GAMUD, Udine, Italy
Zeitschnitt, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany

2005
Intuitive Reflection, Art Forum Ute Barth, Zurich, Switzerland
Austrian Contemporary Art and Postwar Painting, Museo de Art Contemporaneo de Monrerrey MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico

2004
Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
Galerie Delaive, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2003
Special Proofs: 1963-1989, Timothy Yarger Fine Art, Beverly Hills, USA
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Iwaki City Art, Fukushima, Japan
Oita Art Museum, Oita, Japan
Galerie Iris Wazzau, Davos, Switzerland

2002
Galerie Andreas Baumgarti, Munich, Germany
Lovers Fine Arts, Gstaad, Switzerland
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Kawamura Memorial Museum, Chiba, Japan
Museum of Art, Eime, Japan
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, USA

1999 – 2001
Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1990, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA; travelled to Menil Collection, Houston, USA;
Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden;
the Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Galleria Comunale d’Art Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy (solo)

2000
Lawrence Rubin, Greenberg, Van Doren Fine Art, New York, USA
Galerie Delaive, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Richard Gray Gallery, New York and Chicago, USA
Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan

1999
Retrospective: Sam Francis: Paintings 1947-1990, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA;
Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, USA;

1998
Dorothy Blau Gallery, Bal Harbour, USA; Thomas Segal Gallery, Baltimore, USA;
ACA Galerie, Munich, Germany;
Gallery Guy Pieters, Knokke,

1997
Sam Francis: The Archetypal Image, Frederick M. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, USA; travelled to The Fundación Caja de Madrid, Spain (solo)
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, USA;

1996
Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, USA;
Sogetsu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan;
Galerie Delaive, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;

1995
The Last Paintings of Sam Francis, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, USA; Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA; Grunwald/UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

1994
Long Fine Arts, New York, USA;
Galerie Delaive, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;

1993
Retrospective exhibition at Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany (solo)

1992
Galerie Daniel Papierski, Paris, France
Museum van der Togt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

1991
Retrospective at Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France;
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, USA;

1990
Associated American Artists, New York, USA;
GalleryDelaive, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden; 

1989
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, USA;
Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France; Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England;
Sun Valley Center Gallery, Ketchum, USA; 

1988
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, USA;
Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France; Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, USA; 

1987
Knoedler Gallery, London, England; Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, USA;
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, USA;
Heland Thorden Wetterling Galleries, Stockholm, Sweden; G. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, USA;

1986
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, USA;
Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France; Nantenshi Gallery, Toyko, Japan; Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, USA;
La Mairie de Paris, Paris, France

1985
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland; Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France;
Nantenshi Gallery, Toyko, Japan; Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA;
Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, USA;
Hokin Gallery, West Palm Beach, USA

1984
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, USA;
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, USA;
Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York, USA;

1983
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, USA;
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, Switzerland; Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, USA;
Foundation Maeght, Saint Paul de Vence, France; Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy;
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA;
Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France; Art Attack Gallery, Boise, USA; 

1982
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, USA;
Nantenshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA

1981
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, USA;
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA; Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Santa Barbara, USA;
Faith and Charity in Hope Gallery, Hope, USA

1980
Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, USA;
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, USA;
Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, USA;
Abbaye de Senanque, Gordes, France; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA

1979
Retrospective of works on paper at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA – traveled to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Manila, Korea and Japan under the US International Communications Agency
Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, France;
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, USA;
Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York, USA;

1978
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, USA;
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, USA; Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1977
Art in Progress at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

1974
Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Idemitsu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1972
Sam Francis: Retrospective, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA – traveled to Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.;
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas; Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, USA
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA
Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
André Emmerich Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)

1968
Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France (solo)
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)

1967
Sam Francis: Retrospective, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA – traveled to University Art Museum, Berkeley, USA; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, USA (solo)
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, USA
Snow painting performance in Naibara, Japan

1966
Sky painting performance over Tokyo Bay, Japan

1961 – 1964
Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Kornfeld an Klipstein, Bern, Switzerland
Galerie Benador, Zurich, Switzerland
Documenta III, useum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

1960 – 1961
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
Esther Bear Gallery, Santa Barbara, USA

1959
Solo exhibition at Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, USA – traveled to San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, and Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA

1957 – 1958
Hyakkaten Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
Kintetsu Department Store, Osaka, Japan
The Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1957
Gimpel Fils, London, England

1956
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, France
12 Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

1955
Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, France
Tendances actuelles de l’Ecole de Paris III, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland

1952
Galerie du Dragon, Paris, France