[2] At the age of 15, she applied to a liberal arts program and was accepted at the University of Chicago, graduating three years later, in 1950.
[3] She moved to Los Angeles, where she attended graduate school at UCLA and the University of Southern California (USC).
[2] Her work as a film editor helped cultivate her sense of composition, something that served her well when she took up painting.
[6] Her works were collected into the book The Magical Realism of Alyce Frank by Joseph Dispenza in 1999.
[7] She was a resident of Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico, and was married to Larry Frank, a filmmaker and author, until his death.