Nationality American Name Alyce Frank | Known for Landscape painting | |
Born 1932 New Iberia, Louisiana Notable work The Upper Falls at Yosemite | ||
Alyce Frank is an American landscape painter.
Life
Frank was born in New Iberia, Louisiana in 1932. At the age of 15, she applied to a liberal arts program and was accepted at the University of Chicago, graduating three years later. After graduating from the University of Chicago in 1950, she moved to Los Angeles, where she attended graduate school at UCLA and the University of Southern California. At USC she met Larry Frank, as aspiring filmmaker; they married in 1953. For ten years she worked on educational films that her husband produced. Her work as a film editor helped cultivate her sense of composition, something that served her well when she took up painting. She moved to New Mexico when she was 43 years old, and began painting in 1973, specializing in boldly colored landscape paintings influenced by fauvism and German expressionism She refers to herself as a "Taos Expressionist". Over 26 years she created a large body of work, completing more than 600 canvases, primarily large landscapes as well as nearly one hundred portraits.
Her painting The Upper Falls at Yosemite (ca. 1996) was part of an exhibition on the art of Yosemite which appeared at the Autry National Center, the Oakland Museum of California, the Nevada Museum of Art and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art from 2006 to 2008.
She is a resident of Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico, and was married to Larry Frank, a filmmaker and author, until his death. They collected Native American and Hispano American art and artifacts.
