Frank M. Rines

Frank March Rines (1892–1962) was an American landscape painter and instructor born in Dover, New Hampshire on June 3, 1892.

Frank M. Rines moved to Boston in 1922 and began his teaching career at the Massachusetts School of Art as an instructor in pencil technique and elementary drawing.

Rines worked primarily with graphite and watercolor during his early years which continued through the late 1920s.

Rines spent his summers in Rockport, Massachusetts from 1928 to 1941 where he taught and painted privately alongside other well-known artists such as Aldro Hibbard.

In 1935, Rines became a founding member of the Rockport Art Galleries along with other well-known independent gallery owners, including William Lester Stevens, Joseph Eliot Enneking, Arthur J. Hammond, Marian Parkhust Sloane and Otis Pierce Cook, Jr.