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Charles Frace

Charles Frace (1926 - 2005) was active/lived in Tennessee.  Charles Frace is known for Wildlife in landscape painting, illustration.

Charles Frace, a wildlife artist whose work was featured in more than 450 exhibitions, was born in 1926 in a small town in eastern Pennsylvania.  He began drawing at five and taught himself to paint when he was fifteen.  Frace remembers wanting to be an artist from an early age.  His self-instructed talent earned him a scholarship to Philadelphia's Museum School of Art, where he graduated with honors.

In 1955, Frace began a professional career as a freelance illustrator in New York City. Eventually, he established a distinguished reputation for wildlife painting. However Frace soon grew frustrated by the restrictions of illustrating ideas conceived by others and longed to paint some of his own.

He moved to Mattituck, Long Island and opened a studio and met his wife Elke.  She took his first finished work to the nearby Kron's Gallery for framing.  Although it was an unusual subject and title, A Sparrow on a Rat, they insisted o   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2450 characters.]  Artist bio

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