Oral history interview with Mary Frank
name: label: Interviewee
content: Frank, Mary, 1933-
label: Interviewer
content: Richards, Judith Olch
label: Names
content: Martha Graham Dance Company
label: Names
content: New School for Social Research  (New York, N.Y.) -- Faculty
label: Names
content: Queens College (New York, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Zabriskie Gallery
label: Names
content: Cadmus, Paul, 1904-1999
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content: De Kooning, Willem, 1904-1997
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content: Kaprow, Allan
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content: Nakian, Reuben, 1897-1986
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content: Snyder, Joan, 1940-
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Ceramicists -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Sculptors -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Art -- Study and teaching
label: Topic
content: Women artists
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content: Women painters
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content: Women ceramicists
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content: Women sculptors
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Frank, Mary, 1933-
label: Interviewer
content: Richards, Judith Olch
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Interviewee Mary Frank (1933- ) is a figurative sculptor and painter in New York, N.Y. She is married to musicologist Leo Treitler. Interviewer Judith Olch Richards (1947- ) is former Executive director of iCI in New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8 Items (Sound recording: 8 memory cards (6 hr., 43 min.), secure digital, 1.25 in.)
label: Extent
content: 135 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2010 Jan. 10- Feb. 3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.frank10
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview interview with Mary Frank conducted 2010 Jan. 10, 11, and Feb. 3, by Judith Olch Richards, for the Archives of American Art, at Frank's home and studio, in New York, N.Y.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Ms. Frank speaks of her childhood in England and her evacuation to Brooklyn during WWII; her initial intention of becoming a professional dancer and studying with the Martha Graham Dance Company; her marriage and travels with photographer Robert Frank; the difficulties of women teaching art; teaching methods; her time at The New School and Queens College; western and non-Western influences; mushroom hunting; solar cookers; her works in clay, sculpture, painting, drawing, monoprint, and triptych installations; her relationships with the galleries Zabriskie, Midtown Payton and DC Moore; Frank also recalls Willem de Kooning, Ruben Nakian, Allan Kaprow, Marjorie Ponce Israel, Joe Chaikin, Paul Cadmus, Henrietta Mantooth Bagley, Joan Snyder, Elanor Munro, Jean-Louise Bourgeois, and others.