Photo Gallery

Early Family

Francis in the San Mateo backyard.
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Francis on vacation in Hermosa Beach, California
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Francis with his brother, George.
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Francis with his mother in San Mateo, California
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1940s - 1950s

Postcard of Fort Miley Veterans Administration Hospital, San Francisco
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Francis with his stepmother, Virginia Francis, at Fort Miley Hospital. (Published in article “Move to Retain S.F. Vet Center,” San Francisco Examiner, 16 April 1946; courtesy San Francisco Examiner.)
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Francis in the U.S. Army Air Corps
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Francis in rue Tiphaine studio, Paris. (Photo by Lennart Olson/Tio, Stockholm.)
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Francis at a Paris café.
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Francis in Arcueil studio, Paris. (Photo by Georges Boisgontier, France.)
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Installation of the solo exhibition at the Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. (Photo courtesy Martha Jackson Gallery Archives, University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery, State University of New York at Buffalo.)
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Francis at Café Select, Paris. (Photo by John Lefebre.)
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Francis with <em>Chase Manhattan</em> Bank Mural in progress, Broadway studio, New York. (Photo by Eliane Boardman.)

Francis with Chase Manhattan Bank Mural in progress, Broadway studio, New York. (Photo by Eliane Boardman.)
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Chase Manhattan Bank Mural</em> in progress, Broadway studio, New York.

Chase Manhattan Bank Mural in progress, Broadway studio, New York.
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Francis at Fort Miley Hospital, San Francisco.
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1960s - 1970s

Francis in Arcueil studio, Paris.
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Francis in Tiefenauspital, Bern. (Photo by Eberhard Kornfeld.)
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Francis in ceramics studio, Japan. (Photo by Akio Nonaka, © Geijutsu Sincho Editorial Dept., Tokyo.)
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Francis organizing <em>Sky Painting</em> in Tokyo Bay. (Photo by Yomiuri Shimbun)

Francis organizing Sky Painting in Tokyo Bay. (Photo by Yomiuri Shimbun)
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Francis’ <em>Sky Painting</em> performance in Tokyo Bay. (Photo by Yomiuri Shimbun)

Francis’ Sky Painting performance in Tokyo Bay. (Photo by Yomiuri Shimbun)
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Francis’s <em>Snow Painting</em> performance, Japan

Francis’s Snow Painting performance, Japan
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Francis in Akasaka studio, Tokyo
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Francis’s license plate on his car
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Francis in the Ashland studio, Santa Monica. (Photo by Meibao D. Nee.)
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Sam working in Tokyo studio, Japan
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Tokyo studio, Japan, 1974
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1980s - 1990s

Francis in Broadway studio, Santa Monica. (Photo by Meibao D. Nee.)
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Francis in studio viewing mural-size canvas for General Services Administration.
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Francis with his stepmother, Virginia Francis, in Broadway studio, Santa Monica. (Photo by Kurt Blum, Praz, Switzerland.)
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Francis working in Broadway studio, Santa Monica. (Photo by Jerry Sohn.)
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Francis in Venice studio, California. (Photo by Meibao D. Nee.)
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Francis in Venice studio, California. (Photo by Jean Marie del Moral.)
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Francis at his exhibition in Gordes, France.
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Francis in Churchill Avenue studio, Palo Alto studio, California. (Photo by Nico Delaive.)
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The last known portrait of Francis. (Photo by Douglas Shields.)
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Francis in California. (Photo by Nico Delaive.)
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Francis at home West Channel Road, Santa Monica.
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The Legacy

MoMA Special Edition and program at UNIQLO, New York City
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Visitors at the Caja de Madrid exhibition, Spain. (Photo by Robert Nock.)

Bechtler Museum of Modern Art exhibition, 2015
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Centre Pompidou, Paris. (Photo by Fiona Vilmer.)
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