Alyce Frank (1932 – January 16, 2024) was an American landscape painter.
Early life
Frank was born in New Iberia, Louisiana, in 1932.[1] She moved to Los Angeles and Tulsa at a young age.[2] At the age of 15, she applied to a liberal arts program and was accepted at the University of Chicago, graduating three years later, in 1950.[3] She moved to Los Angeles, where she attended graduate school at UCLA and the University of Southern California (USC). At USC she met Larry Frank, an aspiring filmmaker; they married in 1953.[2]
For ten years, she worked on educational films that her husband produced.[2] Her work as a film editor helped cultivate her sense of composition, something that served her well when she took up painting.[4]
Frank collaborates with many artists in nearby Taos, New Mexico, and refers to herself as a "Taos Expressionist".[3] She is a long-time painting partner of Taos artist Barbara Zaring.[3]
Over 26 years, she created a large body of work, completing more than 600 canvases, primarily large landscapes as well as nearly one hundred portraits.[6] Her works were collected into the book The Magical Realism of Alyce Frank by Joseph Dispenza in 1999.[3]
She was a resident of Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico, and was married to Larry Frank, a filmmaker and author, until his death. They collected Native American and Hispano American art and artifacts. They had three children.[3][8]
She died in Santa Cruz, California on January 16, 2024.[9]
