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Mary Frank (Mary Lockspeiser) was born on 4 February, 1933 in London, England, is an American painter (born 1933). Discover Mary Frank's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 91 years old?
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Mary Lockspeiser |
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London, England |
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Mary Frank Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Mary Frank's Husband?
Her husband is Robert Frank (m. 1950-1969)
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Mary Frank Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Mary Frank worth at the age of 91 years old? Mary Frank’s income source is mostly from being a successful painter. She is from Oman. We have estimated Mary Frank's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Frank was born in London, the only child of Eleanore Lockspeiser (1909–1986), an American painter, and Edward Lockspeiser (1905–1973), English musicologist and art critic.
Mary Frank (née Mary Lockspeiser; born 4 February 1933) is an English visual artist who works as a sculptor, painter, printmaker, draftswoman, and illustrator.
In 1939, at the beginning of World War II, she left London for a series of boarding schools and then was sent in 1940 to live with her maternal grandparents, Gregory and Eugenie Weinstein in Brooklyn, New York.
She studied modern dance with Martha Graham from 1945 to 1950 and was admitted to the High School of Music & Art in New York in 1947.
In 1949 she transferred to the Professional Children's School, where she majored in dance.
While in high school, she met Robert Frank, a Swiss photographer, whom she married in 1950.
About this time she studied wood carving at Alfred van Loen's studio.
She also studied drawing with Max Beckmann at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in New York and briefly with Hans Hofmann in 1951 and 1954 at Hofmann's Eighth Street School.
By this time she had two children: Pablo (named after Picasso), born February 7, 1951, and Andrea, born April 21, 1953.
After her husband, Robert Frank, gained a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1955 she travelled with him and the children the following two years across the United States.
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.
It was also in that year that Frank illustrated the children's book, Buddha, by the author Joan Lebols Cohen.
In 1969 she also divorced Robert Frank.
She purchased a summer home in Lake Hill, New York in 1973, and built her first kiln.
Frank has been advocate of the solar cooking and solar water pasteurization movement.
On December 28, 1974, her 21-year-old daughter, Andrea, was killed in a plane crash in Guatemala.
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, Distinguished Professor.
Currently she has works included in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Princeton University Art Museum, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Grounds For Sculpture, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Everson Museum of Art, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Art at Yale University, the Jewish Museum, the Whitney Museum, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
About a year later her son Pablo, who suffered from schizophrenia, also developed Hodgkin's lymphoma and died on November 11, 1994, in Pennsylvania.
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 is largely self-taught and never had any formal training as a sculptor.