Museum of American Art, New York; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas; Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California. 1973–1974 Lives and works in Tokyo; studios in Santa Monica and Paris. Exhibits: Idemitsu Art Museum, Tokyo. 1977–1979 Exhibits: Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm; Jerusalem. 1980 Solo shows: Abbaye de Senanque, Gordes, France; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. Founding Board of Trustees, Museum of Contemporary Idemitsu. Art, Los Angeles. Israel Museum, 1982 Divorces Mako 1983 Mural San Francisco Airport. Is the recipient of the “Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres”, France. 1985 Mural San Francisco Museum of Art. Marries English painter Margaret Smith in Japan. 1986 Fourth child, Augustus James Joseph, born in Santa Monica. 1986-1989 Ceiling mural Opera National, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium. Exhibits in Japan: Toyama Museum, Toyama; The Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Takanawa; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga; Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo. Also works in Venice and Palo Alto, California and Moss Farm, England. 1990-1993 Exhibits: Ogawa Art Foundation, Tokyo; Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse-Labège, France; Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Commission for German Parliament building, Bonn. Acquires more studios in Northern California, Point Reyes Station. 1994 Exhibits: Gallery Delaive at Museum Jan van der Togt, Amstelveen, Netherlands. Receives “Distinguished Alumnus Award” from University of California, Berkeley. Dies November 4 in Santa Monica. 5 4 l – y g o o n o r h C d e t c e l e S 1923 Born June 25, in San Mateo, CA, to pianist Katherine Lewis Francis and mathematics professor Samuel Augustus Francis. 1926 Birth of his brother, George Conant Francis. 1945 Hospitalized for years due to illness. Begins painting lying prone in a plastic body cast. 1947 Marries Vera Miller. 1949-1950 Receives BA degree and MA degree, University of California, Berkeley. 1950 Moves to Paris, and to the South of France for the next six years. Also works in Mexico City, Tokyo, Bern, and New York. 1952 Divorces Vera Miller. 1955 Marries California painter Muriel Goodwin. 1952-1955 Exhibits: Galerie Nina Dausset, Paris; Galerie Rive Droite, Paris. 1956 Included in Twelve Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Exhibits: Galerie Rive Droite, Paris; Zoë Dusanne Gallery, Seattle; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. Time Magazine states: “Francis is the hottest American painter in Paris these days”. 1957 Travels to Japan. Paints mural for Sogetsu School, Tokyo. 1958-1959 Exhibits: The New American Painting, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Second studio in New York City; completes Chase Manhattan Bank Mural. Exhibits: Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle. 1959 Divorces Muriel Goodwin. That year, Francis marries Japanese painter Teruko Yokoi; birth of daughter, Kayo. 1960-1966 Lives and works in New York, Paris, Tokyo, Bern, and California. Hospitalized in Bern for a year; returns to California. Exhibits: Kunsthalle, Bern; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Documenta III, Kassel, Germany (Basel Mural Triptych). Designs studio in Santa Monica as home base. 1966 Divorces Teruko Yokoi. That year Francis marries Japanese filmmaker Mako Idemitsu; birth of second child, Osamu, in Santa Monica. 1967 Exhibits: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; 1968 Receives University Art Museum, Berkeley. honorary Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley. Exhibits: Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; Kunsthalle Basel. 1969 Birth of third child, Shingo, in Santa Monica. 1970-1972 Commissioned mural, Berlin Red, National Gallery of Art, West Berlin, Germany. 1972–1973 Exhibits: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Whitney Source: “Chronology. The Life and Oeuvre of Sam Francis: Abridged Timeline with Selected Exhibitions”, in: Sam Francis. Online Catalogue Raisonné Project, Debra Burchett-Lere, editor/executive Director, Pasadena, CA.