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Artist: Mary Frank
Mary Frank Original Charcoal and Pastel 1984 Figure Drawing
By Mary Frank
Located in Larchmont, NY
Mary Frank (British/American, b. 1933)
Chant, 1984
Charcoal and pastel on paper
41 3/4 x 29 3/4 in.
Framed: 46 1/2 x 34 1/4x 2 in.
Signed and dated lower right: Mary Frank 84
Midtown Payson Galleries Label Verso
Mary Frank is known for creating stoneware sculptures that have the appearance of terra cotta fragments dug up at an archaeological site. Sometimes a half-finished relief head...
Category
1980s Modern Mary Frank Art
Materials
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Untitled 3-D Cast Paper Collage
By Mary Frank
Located in New York, NY
Mary Frank
Untitled 3-D Cast Paper Collage, 1985
3D Cast Paper with Deckled Edges
Hand signed, numbered 78/85 and dated by the artist on lower left front
21 3/4 × 28 1/2 × 1 3/4 inch...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mary Frank Art
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Rosh Hashanah 5741 (Still life flower vase for the Jewish New Year)
By Mary Frank
Located in New York, NY
Mary Frank
Rosh Hashanah 5741, 1980
Lithograph on arches paper with deckled edges
Hand signed and numbered 9 from the limited edition of 71 by the artist...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mary Frank Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled Abstract Expressionist Mid Century Modern unique ink wash on paper
By Mary Frank
Located in New York, NY
Mary Frank
Untitled Abstract Expressionist Mid Century Modern drawing, 1965
Pencil and Ink Wash on Paper
Signed and dated 1965 on the front
This is a unique work
Vintage frame with Christie's label included
Original pencil and ink drawing, signed and dated on the front. This work is framed in original vintage frame with Christie's auction label on verso. Mary Frank is represented by the renowned DC Moore.
Artist Biography (Courtesy of DC Moore):
Born in London, England, in 1933 Mary Frank moved to the United States with her family in 1940. In the early 1950s she studied with Hans Hofmann and Max Beckmann. Frank works across disciplines as a sculptor, painter, photographer and gifted ceramic artist. Without allegiance to any particular way of working or medium, Frank is fueled by her ever present urge for direct and honest expression. Frank's process begins with some form of abstraction from which she teases out what she describes as a pre-existing time and atmosphere where events can take place. Her recurring imagery act as an alphabet, combined in order to evoke feelings of grief, love, sorrow, ecstasy, mourning and exultation.
The artist has been the subject of numerous solo museum and gallery exhibitions, including the 2022 retrospective exhibition, Mary Frank: The Observing Heart, at the Samuel Dorsky Museum in New Paltz, NY, accompanied by a catalogue with essay by curator David Hornung, and Mary Frank: Finding My Way Home, which originated at the Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, in 2014 and traveled to the Butler Institute in Youngstown, OH, in 2015. Work by Mary Frank was included in the Whitney Museum’s 2020 exhibition, Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950 – 2019, and the Brooklyn Museum’s 2020 exhibition, Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection.
Eakins Press Foundation has published two collaborations between Mary Frank and the environmental activist and author Terry Tempest Williams, the 2022 catalogue What My Body Knows and the 2020 catalogue A Burning Testament. Illustrations by Mary Frank were projected during Falling Out of Time, a song cycle composed by Osvaldo Golijov, which premiered in New York in 2022. In 2017, a solo exhibition at DC Moore Gallery coincided with the publication of the monograph, Pilgrimage: Photographs by Mary Frank, by the Eakins Press Foundation with texts by the poet and critic John Yau and Terry Tempest Williams. In 2014, the documentary film, Visions of Mary Frank, was produced and released by filmmaker John Cohen.
Mary Frank (née Mary Lockspeiser; born 4 February 1933) is an English visual artist who works as a sculptor, painter, printmaker, draftswoman, and illustrator. Frank first exhibited her drawings in 1958 at the Poindexter Gallery in New York City. In 1969 Frank began her relationship with the Zabriskie Gallery in New York. Frank currently lives and works in Lake Hill and New York City. Since 1995, she has been married to Leo Treitler, a pianist and music scholar. Mary Frank's career spans five decades. She was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1984, the recipient of numerous awards and honors including two Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Awards in 1973 and 1983, the Lee Krasner Award of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in 1993 and the Joan Mitchell Grant Award in 1995. In 1990 she was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1994. Working as a professor at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Frank was honored with the title of Milton Avery Chair...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Mary Frank Art
Materials
Ink, Pencil
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