swap_horiz Sam Francis Alternatives

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Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse was a French painter, notable as a leader of Fauvism after the 1905 Salon d'Automne and for bold color in...

French 20TH Century Decorative Colorist

9.4 Excellent

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Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, notable for drip paintings made on the floor, including...

American 20TH Century Drip Abstract Expressionism

9.1 Excellent

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Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko was a Latvian-born American painter and Color Field pioneer, known for luminous stacked rectangles in works...

American 20TH Century Meditative Color Field

9.1 Excellent

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Richard Diebenkorn

Richard Diebenkorn was an American painter whose Ocean Park series, begun in 1967 in California, joined abstraction with...

American California 20TH Century Figurative

8.4 Great

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Barnett Newman

Barnett Newman was an American Color Field painter, noted for vertical zip lines in large canvases such as Vir Heroicus...

American Minimalist 20TH Century Color Field

8.3 Great

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Clyfford Still

Clyfford Still was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, known for jagged fields of color and for leaving a major...

American 20TH Century Large Scale Color Field

8.2 Great

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Joan Mitchell

Joan Mitchell was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, active in New York and France, known for large gestural ca...

American 20TH Century Female Abstract Expressionism

8.2 Great

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Franz Kline

Franz Kline was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, known for stark black-and-white gestural canvases such as Ch...

American 20TH Century Abstract Expressionism Black White

8.1 Great

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Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler was an American painter who helped found Color Field painting with her soak-stain method, first seen...

American 20TH Century Female Abstract Expressionism

8.1 Great

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Robert Motherwell

Robert Motherwell was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, known for intellectual collage and the Elegy to the Sp...

American 20TH Century Collage Abstract Expressionism

8.0 Great

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Milton Avery

Milton Avery was an American modernist painter known for simplified color planes and quiet figures, influencing Color Fi...

American 20TH Century Modernism Figurative

8.0 Great

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Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, notable for dynamic collage-based works and large canvases s...

American 20TH Century Female Abstract Expressionism

7.9 Good

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Adolph Gottlieb

Adolph Gottlieb was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, noted for 1940s Pictographs and later Burst paintings th...

American 20TH Century Symbolic Abstract Expressionism

7.7 Good

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Maurice Prendergast

Maurice Prendergast was an American Post-Impressionist painter known for colorful park, beach, and crowd scenes after st...

American 20TH Century Post Impressionism Colorist

7.6 Good

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David Park

David Park was an American painter who helped launch Bay Area Figurative painting in the 1950s after turning from abstra...

American 20TH Century Bay Area Figurative

7.5 Good

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Grace Hartigan

Grace Hartigan was an American Abstract Expressionist painter linked to the New York School and included in MoMA's New A...

American 20TH Century Female Figurative

7.4 Good

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Elaine de Kooning

Elaine de Kooning was an American Abstract Expressionist painter and critic, known for gestural portraits including a 19...

American 20TH Century Female Figurative

7.1 Good

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Elmer Bischoff

Elmer Bischoff was an American painter and a key Bay Area Figurative artist, known for expressive interiors and figures...

American 20TH Century Bay Area Figurative

7.1 Good

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Nathan Oliveira

Nathan Oliveira was an American painter and printmaker associated with Bay Area Figurative art, noted for isolated figur...

American 20TH Century Figurative Abstract Expressionism

7.1 Good

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Roger Bissière

Roger Bissière was a French painter associated with lyrical abstraction, notable for color-rich postwar works and partic...

French 20TH Century Lyrical Abstract

7.1 Good