Background
Frank was born in New Iberia, Louisiana in 1932.
Frank was born in New Iberia, Louisiana in 1932.
After graduating from the University of Chicago in 1950, she moved to Los Angeles, where she attended graduate school at University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California.
She moved to New Mexico when she was 43 years old, and began painting in 1973, specializing in boldly colored landscape paintings influenced by fauvism and German expressionism She refers to herself as a "Taos Expressionist". Her painting The Upper Falls at Yosemite (ca 1996) was part of an exhibition on the art of Yosemite which appeared at the Autry National Center, the Oakland Museum of California, the Nevada Museum of Art and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art from 2006 to 2008. They collect Native American and Hispano American art and artifacts.