Frances Sanborn Baldwin was born in San Francisco, CA on Oct. 18, 1907. Baldwin studied at the CSFA under Otis Oldfield and Spencer Macky, ASL in NYC, Mills College under Fernand Léger, and with Maurice Sterne and Mark Rothko.
A spinster, she died in San Francisco on Aug. 7, 1999.
Member: San Francisco Art Association; SF Women Artists (pres. 1951-52).
Exh: Portland (OR) Museum, 1937-39; San Francisco Art Association, 1938-43; Calif. State Fair, 1939; Oakland Art Gallery, 1938-58; SF Women Artists, 1938-53; San Francisco Museum of (Modern) Art, 1943 (solo); City of Paris (SF), 1948, 1955 (solos).
Source: Edan Hughes,
"Artists in California, 1786-1940"Who's Who in American Art 1947-62; SF Chronicle, 8-10-1999 (obituary).
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