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Also Known As Samuel Lewis Francis
Born June 25, 1923 • San Mateo • California
Died November 4, 1994 (aged 71) • Santa Monica • California
Movement / Style Abstract Expressionism • Tachism
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Carlos Mérida
Guatemalan artist
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Adam Friedrich Oeser
painter, sculptor, and engraver
Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
American artist
Ben Shahn, 1966.
Ben Shahn
American artist
Elaine and Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning
Dutch-born American painter
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Jasper Johns
American painter
Larry Rivers, photograph by Hans Namuth, 1965
Larry Rivers
American painter
Philip Guston
Philip Guston
American painter
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
Andrea Mantegna: Arrival of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga
Andrea Mantegna
Italian artist
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian artist
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch
Norwegian artist
Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix
French artist
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Spanish artist
Vuillard, Édouard: Under the Trees
Édouard Vuillard
French artist
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Alfred Rethel
German artist
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Daniel Maclise
Irish painter
Campagnola, Domenico: The Assumption of the Virgin
Domenico Campagnola
Italian artist
Ciro Ferri: Triumph of Bacchus
Ciro Ferri
Italian painter
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist

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