Sam Francis
(1923 - 1994)
 

Samuel Lewis Francis (June 25, 1923 – November 4, 1994) was an American painter and printmaker. Francis served in the United States Air Force during World War II. In 1944, while in the Air Corps he was diagnosed with Spinal Tuberculosis.[3][1] He was in the hospital for several years, and it was while there, after being visited by artist David Park in 1945, that he began to paint. Once out of the hospital he returned to Berkeley, this time to study art. He received both his BA degree (1949) and MA degree (1950) in Art from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied botany, medicine, and psychology.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Francis

Island Plate
1973
Etching and Aquatint
38 x 45 cm
https://www.lamodern.com/auctions/2016/10/modern-art-design/291

 

And one more work by Sam Francis to end this month, not a print but a drawing:

 

Zeichnung (drawing)
1961
Pen and ink on paper