02/12/2021
Our highlighted piece today in the shop is a beautiful painting by Robert Clinton Frankenberg (1911-2001)
Robert Frankenberg was born in Mount Vernon, New York and studied at the Art
Students League in New York City from 1928 to 1929 and with William McNulty.
In 1939, his dioramas were in the World's Fair Exposition in New York.
Robert Frankenberg worked in many mediums including pastel, charcoal, oil, watercolor and pen and ink. In 1948, he began a forty-year career as a member of the staff of the School of Visual Arts and served as Director of the Illustration Department. In 1984, he won the school's Annual Distinguished Artist-Teacher of the Year Award.
Frankenberg illustrated more than 150 books including "Two Years Before the Mast" and for magazines including "Fortune", "The Saturday Evening Post", "Medical Journal", "Look", and "Time". Mural commissions included the Pennsylvania State Building.
If you like this piece we have others of his work in the shop come in and see his amazing talent up close. Everything is for sale and would love to see his work find their place to be enjoyed.