Jeanne Frank
- Location
- New York, New York, USA
- Birthday
- January 05
- Bio
- In her late eighties, Jeanne Frank has been a private art dealer in 20th century art since 1970. She wrote an art book entitled Discovering Art, published in 1997.
She currently lives on the Upper East Side of New York and writes vignettes about her life and experiences as an octogenarian.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Discovering Art-- A User's
Guide
December 19, 2011 11:55AM - Carapace: At 80, I look back
on when I gave up saying 'yes'
February 03, 2011 04:08PM - Now That I'm Eighty...
August 17, 2010 09:04AM
Jeanne Frank's Links
Discovering Art-- A User's Guide
Introduction to the book: "Discovering Art - A User's Guide to the World of Collecting" by Jeanne Frank.
"I
don't know anything about art, but I know what I
like."
I have heard this statement repeated over and over again, like a mantra, during the thirty years I' ve been… Read full post »
Carapace: At 80, I look back on when I gave up saying 'yes'
Rollo May has written that “Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between stimulus and response and in that pause to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.” Pause, the fraction of a second, the moment of choice that can make a forty-five degree angle chan… Read full post »
Now That I'm Eighty...
..."What do I do with the rest of my life?'' repeats itself like a needle stuck on an old phonograph record. The question never occurred to me until the trees were losing their leaves in the autumn of the year I turned eighty. At the time, I'd just finished the first… Read full post »
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