Mary Frank Ceramic Sculpture

Painting print multiple sculpture volume drawing watercolor ceramic objects.

Mary frank ceramic sculpture.

View mary frank s 140 artworks on artnet. Mary frank s career spans five decades. Skip to end of content the female emperor exhibition celebrating women artists. Mary frank is best known for her ceramic sculpture and work in printmaking.

Mary frank created and exhibited ceramic sculpture from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. Wood sculpture 1957 1967 and recent photographs runs through june 4 at dc moore gallery new york. Jul 10 nov 27. Eugene smith for farrar straus and giroux.

The mid century modern aesthetic. 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. However in the past 10 years or so she has turned to painting creating an impressive body of work that is rich in. Mary frank is a british born american artist best known for her abstract paintings and sculptures which depict the emotional impact of memory and loss.

She is largely self taught and never had any formal training as a sculptor. Mary frank was born in london in 1933 and moved to the united states at the age of seven. In 1969 she began working on large multi part figurative clay sculptures until the early 80 s. Black and white prints and works on paper.

In the early 1950s she began carving wood sculpture and studied with hans hoffman and max beckmann. Aug 15 2020 jan 1 2021. Worldwide auctions of art categories. See available prints and multiples sculpture and works on paper for sale and learn.

Check back soon for more of stephenson s dispatches. He is currently at work on a biography of w. Mary frank reveals herself once more to be the visual poet of the inner life evoking the pain and the mystery of our human embeddedness in the natural world. The artist s market biography price levels and indices of his her artworks.

Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices. Shows featuring mary frank. As she increasingly began working in two dimensions she translated many of the symbolic elements that she had developed in clay into her explorations of new mediums. Frank works across disciplines as a sculptor painter photographer and gifted ceramic artist.

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