Mary Frank
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Mary Frank
American, born England, 1933
Birth placeLondon, England
BiographyMary 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 barely escapes from the clay; sometimes a figure, as in "Untitled" (1975), lies in pieces.Born in England in 1933, Frank had her first one-woman show at the Poindexter Gallery in New York in 1958, and has shown at least once a year ever since. She has taught at the New School for Social Research and Queens College and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a National Council of the Arts Grant and a Guggenheim award.
(Information for the biography above is based on writings from the book, American Women Artists, by Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein.)
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