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BIOGRAFIE
| 1923 | born in San Mateo, CA |
| 1943 – 1948 | Served in the United States Army Corps and began painting while convalescing from an injury |
| 1946 – 1950 | began painting in San Francisco, CA |
| 1949 | BA, University of California, Berkeley, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 1994 | died in Santa Monica, CA |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
| 2013 – 2014 | Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, USA |
| 2013 | Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
| Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Tate Gallery, London, UK Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland |