The Apparition
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Mary Frank received her first set of carving tools from her mother, the painter Eleanore Lockspeiser, who enlisted Frank’s help to carve wooden frames for her canvases. Later, as a young wife and mother, Frank struggled to find her own artistic voice, studiously ignoring the influence of “rock stars” like Willem de Kooning who lived across the family’s backyard. Following studies with Max Beckmann and Hans Hofmann at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, Frank returned to wood carving in the mid-1950s. As seen in The Apparition, her abstracted forms highlight the raw, rooted qualities of her chosen material, and she favored evocative titles that were both figurative and vaguely surreal.
Caption
Mary Frank American, born 1933. The Apparition, 1959. Oak, wax finish and reddish stain, 67 × 27 1/2 × 29 in. (170.2 × 69.9 × 73.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Jerome Goodman, 70.10a-e. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 70.10a-e_bw.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
The Apparition
Date
1959
Medium
Oak, wax finish and reddish stain
Classification
Dimensions
67 × 27 1/2 × 29 in. (170.2 × 69.9 × 73.7 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Jerome Goodman
Accession Number
70.10a-e
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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