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==Early life== Sam Francis was born in [[San Mateo, California]],<ref name="slff">[http://www.samfrancisfoundation.com/page3/page17/page17.html Samuel L. Francis Foundation Foundation website: About the Artist page] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302173952/http://www.samfrancisfoundation.com/page3/page17/page17.html |date=March 2, 2009 }}. Samfrancisfoundation.com. Retrieved on April 5, 2014.</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Zompolis|first=Gregory N.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Y4A9uWMrAYC|title=Images of America, San Mateo|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2004|isbn=0738529567|location=Charleston, SC|pages=60}}</ref> the son of Katherine Lewis Francis and Samuel Augustus Francis Sr. The 1935 death of his mother affected him deeply; she had encouraged his interest in music. He later developed a strong bond with his stepmother, Virginia Peterson Francis. He attended [[San Mateo High School]] in the early 1940s.<ref name=":0" /> 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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Selz |first1=Gabrielle |title=Light On Fire: The Art and Life of Sam Francis |date=October 19, 2021 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0520310711 |pages=41,392 |edition=1st |url=https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520310711/light-on-fire}}</ref><ref name="slff"/> He was in the hospital for several years, and it was while there, after being visited by artist [[David Park (painter)|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.
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