[1] He was an illustrator and American Impressionist painter of portraits and landscapes, and a prominent teacher who instructed thousands of art students throughout a career spanning over fifty years.

[3] Frank DuMond was interested in drawing from a young age, and was involved in the local art scene in the early 1880s.

[6] DuMond financed his art education by taking a job creating illustrations for New York's Daily Graphic newspaper.

[3] From 1888 or 1889 to 1891, Frank DuMond attended the Académie Julian,[7] where his instructors included Benjamin Constant, Jules Joseph Lefebvre, and Gustav Boulanger.

He still performed illustration work for a while in addition to teaching, including the artwork for Mark Twain's Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.

[2] In a teaching career spanning more than fifty years, DuMond taught thousands of artists at the Art Students League of New York.

His students included Norman Rockwell, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, Frank J. Reilly,[1][5] Charles Webster Hawthorne,[12] Frank Herbert Mason,[13] Ogden Pleissner, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Louis Bouché, Eugene Speicher,[4] Helen Winslow Durkee, Arthur Maynard and Rosina Cox Boardman.