The Art and Life of Sam Francis with Gabrielle Selz and John Seed

Stanford University is the home to the core of the Anderson Collection, one of the world’s most outstanding private assemblies of modern and contemporary American art.The Anderson Collection at Stanford University is an extraordinary collection of modern and contemporary American paintings and sculpture. The museum was established by a generous gift of 121 works from the private collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson and Mary Patricia Anderson Pence, from one of the world’s most outstanding private assemblies of art built by the family over the past 50 years.The collection has expanded with gifts of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Highlights include works by Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin, and Willem De Kooning.

Anderson Collection at Stanford University

Author Gabrielle Selz discuss her new book, "Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis".

<a href="https://anderson.stanford.edu/work_artist/sam-francis/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a>Gabrielle Selz is an award-winning author. Selz will discuss her new book, Light on Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis with artist, writer, and board member of the Sam Francis Foundation, Jon Seed. Light on Fire is the first comprehensive biography of the revered American painter and <a href="https://anderson.stanford.edu/work_artist/sam-francis/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Anderson Collection artist, Sam Francis</a>. Her previous book, Unstill Life: Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction, received the best memoir of the year award from the American Society of Authors and Journalists. Her essays and art reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Daily Beast, The Los Angeles Times, Literary Hub, Hyperallergic, SquareCylinder, Art &amp; Object, Art Papers, The Rumpus, and The Huffington Post, among others.

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