Mary Frank

Mary Frank (née Lockspeiser; born 4 February 1933) is a British and American visual artist who works as a sculptor, painter, printmaker, draftswoman, and illustrator.

[1] In 1939, at the beginning of World War II, she left London for a series of boarding schools and then was sent in 1940 to live with her maternal grandparents, Gregory and Eugenie Weinstein in Brooklyn, New York.

She also studied drawing with Max Beckmann at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in New York and briefly with Hans Hofmann in 1951 and 1954.

After her husband, Robert Frank, gained a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1955 she travelled with him and the children the following two years across the United States.

[6] About a year later her son Pablo, who suffered from schizophrenia, developed Hodgkin's lymphoma and died on 11 November 1994, aged 43, at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Salisbury Township, Pennsylvania.