Frances Donnelly Wolf (born c. 1952) is an American artist, oil painter and advocate for the arts.

[1] Her father was a career diplomat with the United States Foreign Service.

She lived in the United States for the first eleven months of her life before moving overseas with her parents.

[1][3][4] She decided to pursue Asian Studies after living in Pakistan and earned her Bachelor of Arts from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London.

[1] Wolf later decided to pursue art and painting full time.