16 Facts About Jane Frank

Jane Frank studied with artists, Hans Hofmann and Norman Carlberg.

Jane Frank was a pupil of the painter, Hans Hofmann.

Jane Frank can be categorized stylistically as an abstract expressionist, but one who draws primary inspiration from the natural world, particularly landscape.

Jane Frank's later painting refers more explicitly to aerial landscapes, while her sculpture tends toward minimalism.

Jane Frank attended the progressive Park School and received her initial artistic training at the Maryland Institute of Arts and Sciences, earning in 1935 a diploma in commercial art and fashion illustration.

Jane Frank then acquired further training in New York City at what is the Parsons School of Design, from which she graduated in 1939.

Jane Frank began a study of the history of painting and "went through a progression of spatial conceptions" from cave painting through the Renaissance, then concentrating on Cezanne, Picasso, and De Kooning.

Art history professor emerita, Phoebe B Stanton of Johns Hopkins University mentioned that twice in the 20 years after 1947, Jane Frank suffered from illnesses which "interrupted the work for long periods".

The latter illness was so severe, according to Stanton, that it interrupted Jane Frank's painting work for about two years.

Jane Frank soon had solo exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Bodley Gallery in New York and Goucher College, among others.

In much of her output before the late 1960s, Jane Frank seems less interested in color than in tonality and texture, often employing the grayscale to create a sense of depth or motion from light to dark, this frequently moving in a diagonal, and otherwise employing one basic hue.

Whether brooding or exuberant, the geologically deposited, erupted, eroded, and gouged canvases of Jane Frank stand apart from all else.

Jane Frank won the Sculpture Prize at the 1983 Maryland Artists Exhibition.

Several sources note that Jane Frank designed rugs and tapestries; a color photograph showing detail from one of these textile works is reproduced in the Ann Avery book listed below.

Plenty of cues are there that this is some sort of landscape, and Jane Frank herself avows it:.

Jane Frank's works are in many other public, academic, corporate, and private collections.