Francis
is an anomaly: an American artist whose work and public acceptance
were — at least in the beginning — as much Parisian as American;
a Northern California painter whose “feel” is — if
local at all — Southern Californian [airy, oceanic, pretty].
He is also considered the third member of a West Coast post-war triumvirate
of "major" artists, with Tobey and Diebenkorn.
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. . Peter Plagens
