Hodé Frankl

Hodé Frankl (August 17, 1923 – September 12, 1989) was a 20th-century American painter. Born in Brooklyn, NY (née Adelaide Frankel) to Eva and Sam Frankel, Frankl began painting as a child. Her earliest awards for her artwork include the Daniel Schnakenberg Scholarship from the Art Students League of New York (1942), and First Prize for works in watercolor by the National Arts Club, for her painting Land (1945).[1] Primarily a watercolor painter, she also worked in pen and ink, woodcuts, and decorative arts. Throughout her career she produced hundreds of paintings, and exhibited her work primarily in shows in New York City and Philadelphia. Many of her paintings were sold to private collectors.

Hodé Frankl
Photograph of Frankl by an unknown family member, c. early 1950s
BornAugust 17, 1923
Brooklyn, New York
DiedSeptember 12, 1989 (1989-09-13) (aged 66)
Brentwood, New York
NationalityAmerican
Known forLandscape, interiors, still lifes, portrait painting, pen & ink, woodcuts, decorative arts

Biography

Hodé Frankl was born in 1923 Brooklyn, New York to Eva and Sam Frankel. In 1946 her family moved to The Bronx, and during this period Frankl shared a small painting studio in Manhattan with friend Anahid Janjigian. In 1952, she met her future husband, Joseph Deley (also an artist), with whom she would eventually launch Deley-Frankl Studios in 1962 in Brentwood, NY, where they gave art classes to children and adults for decades; the studio was maintained by Frankl's husband until 2005. Frankl died in her Brentwood, NY home September 12, 1989, due to complications caused by lung cancer.

Career
Brochure for Frankl's three-man show at Creative Gallery in 1952.

Frankl began painting as a child. Her earliest awards for her artwork include the Daniel Schnakenberg Scholarship from the Art Students League of New York (1942), and First Prize for works in watercolor by the National Arts Club, for her painting Land. From 1946 through 1964, Frankl exhibited her work in a number venues, including:

  • September 16–27, 1946, The Sixteenth Annual Pre-Season Exhibition of the Contemporary Arts Gallery in New York City
  • September 8–20, 1952, The Third Annual Exhibition Selection and Winners Show at Creative Gallery in New York City (exhibited Dusk Down)
  • October 20 - November 1, 1952, Three-Man Show (with Robert G. Scott & Louis Ginsberg at Creative Gallery (exhibited Grassland, Plainsland, Fall Scene, Autumn Tree, The Fertile Ground, The Broken Silence, Scape, and Loose for Sea)
  • October 24 - November 6, 1953 (in New York City) and November 9–20, 1953, One-Man Show with the Creative Gallery (exhibited 18 paintings)
  • December 1–30, 1955, Exhibited in Crespi Gallery's "Christmas Group"
  • January 3–29, 1956, Exhibited at the New York City Center Gallery, receiving honorable mention for Study of Toledo. Art News called it "one of the best shows staged since the founding of the gallery two and half years ago."
  • February 24 - March 24, 1956, Exhibited at the Village Art Center Gallery's "Exhibition of Prize-Winning Art." Small Town was listed in the catalogue for $200.
  • June 17–19, 1957, Exhibited at the Bodley Gallery in New York City. Along with Andy Warhol's Two Boys, Frankl's Bacchanale was one of the "Best Fifty Selected" in the Bodley Annual Drawing Competition.
  • September 25 - October 14, 1960, Exhibited Fruits at the Open Water Color Exhibition at the National Arts Club in New York City
  • May 11 - June 14, 1964, One-Man Show of Frankl's paintings and drawings at the Lincoln Institute Gallery in New York City
  • September 21 - October 2, 1964, Exhibited in the Annual Pre-Season Group Exhibition of Contemporary Arts in New York City

According to Deley (2009), "the vast majority of Hodé's work are not dated, and unlike many artist's, her style and technique did not dramatically evolve over the years. It is therefore difficult to assign most of her paintings to a chronology."[2]

Reviews of Frankl's Work
Brochure for Hodé Frankl's One-Man Show at Creative Gallery in 1953.

An October 25, 1952 New York Times review of the Three-Man Show at the Creative Gallery stated that "Hodé Frankl's outdoor scenes of a land where it is always autumn and sunset are unbridled pieces of romanticism, poetic and satisfying."[3]

In the October 1952 issue of Art News, a reviewer identified as R.G. said of Frankl's work in the Three-Man Show that "In Hodé Frankl is a departure from the usual modern into a somewhat Innes school of thought. Browns tinge and tone most of the colors in pictures that stress the vastness of landscape and sky, as in Plainsland, where a tiny compact farm sets a scale to the distance."

In the November 1953 issue of Art News, a reviewer identified as B.H. (reviewing Frankl's One-Man Show at Creative Gallery) stated that "Hodé Frankl of New York shows for the first time watercolors and caseins that translate villages, shorelines, and city rooftops into a personal realism which emphasizes mood. Stretches of frost-turned grasses surround a nicely relaxed figure in Brown Study and creep to the edge of the water in Moorings.

Watercolors as a medium

According to her husband Joseph Deley (also a painter), Frankl — who worked primarily in watercolors — "...worked in a style that was very much like oils. Her work often looks like an oil, because she worked with thickness of paint, strength of paint, and strength of contrasting colors. ...[H]er work is not wishy-washy like many watercolors are. There's always a power there, strength. She was impatient with [oils]. It has advantages, but it's a clumsy medium, and when you work with oils, you have to know which ones dry quickly, and which ones dry slowly. ...[S]he liked the quickness, the immediacy of watercolor that oil does not have."[4]

Awards
  • 1942, Daniel Schnakenberg Scholarship from the Art Students League of New York
  • 1945, First Prize for works in watercolor by the National Arts Club, for her painting Land
  • May 17, 1958, H.T. Herbert Award in Graphic Art, for Salon, a pen & ink entry in the Art League of Long Island's 29th Annual National Spring Exhibition
  • Lollipop Billboard, 1953
  • Autumnal Scene in Pastel
  • Cape Scene
  • Untitled pen & ink
  • Brentwood Kitchen
  • Sleeping Jacqueline

References
  1. Deley, Jacqueline (2009). Hodé Frankl: In Celebration of an Undiscovered Artist. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-4415-0899-7.
  2. Deley, Jacqueline (2009). Hodé Frankl: In Celebration of an Undiscovered Artist. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-4415-0899-7.
  3. "Friedensohn Art Is Exhibited Here: At The Creative Gallery". The New York Times. 1952-10-25.
  4. Deley, Jacqueline (2009). Hodé Frankl: In Celebration of an Undiscovered Artist. Bloomington, IN: Xlibris. ISBN 978-1-4415-0899-7.
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