Frances Kornbluth (July 26, 1920 – May 26, 2014) was an American abstract expressionist painter who spent 57 summers painting on Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine.

[1] Originally intent on becoming a composer, Kornbluth graduated from Brooklyn College in 1940 with a degree in music; however, in the 1950s she focused her creative energies on painting.

Kornbluth studied at the Brooklyn Museum Art School from 1955 to 1959, where she first met Reuben Tam, and went on to receive a master's degree from the Pratt Institute in 1962.

[2] Beginning in 1957, Kornbluth started spending her summers on Monhegan Island, where her friends and contemporaries included Lynne Mapp Drexler and Elena Jahn.

The natural environment was the primary source of Kornbluth's inspiration, particularly that of Monhegan Island where she summered and painted from 1957 to 2013.