Debra Burchett-Lere, author and curator, is executive director of the Sam Francis Foundation. She has organised numerous exhibitions and publications on the artist and is editor of Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonne of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946-1994. Aneta Zebala, conservator and author, is founder of Zebala & Partners. She is conservator for the Sam Francis Foundation and a contributor to Sam Francis: Catalogue Raisonne of Canvas and Panel Paintings, 1946-1994.
The book is full of information about Francis' non-traditional working methods at a time of explosive innovations in the paint industry during the second half of the 20th century; it gives invaluable advice to conservators, art historians, curators, collectors, art dealers, and artists. --The International Institute for Conservation's News in Conservation Sam Francis: The Artist's Materials, a vivid and engaging book, is testament to the specialized material and process-based research collaboratively undertaken by the Getty Conservation Institute and the Sam Francis Foundation. --ARLIS/NA