"Reclining Female Figure" by Mary Frank, (Amer., born 1933) Ink

"Reclining Female Figure" by Mary Frank, (Amer., born 1933) InkInk Wash Drawing, 1965, 10 9 16 x 13 7 8, signed and dated in ink, on warm white wove paper. Known primarily as a sculptor, Mary Frank has also been a prolific painter, draftsman and print maker. Aligned with her practice as sculptor are the brush and ink drawings she has made, many of the female figure, some with a simultaneous monumentality and intimacy; their mottled stone like textures evoking notions of ancient runes and landscape.

and spent a decade producing many fine etchings of each city

Charles Turzak was a well respected Chicago artist who excelled at woodcut and produced several prints which are today revered as classic depression era masterworks

their first plate by a woman

6 x 11-5/8

Connecticut from the 1920's on

as well as his  well known cityscapes can still exhibit traces of his early Secessionist style

Allied Artists and the National Association of Women Artists

and with his natural drawing skill and sound training as an architect

well away from the image

and is noted for creating the most subtle effects and fine detail with seeming ease

a vertical crease image center through the subject

Clements studied with Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy