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[edit] Possible Title: "Pools Island"

The title of this painting may be "Pools Island". The painting is signed and dated ("63") on the canvas. The exhibition catalogue for Jane Frank's 1963 (October 22 - November 9) solo show at New York's Bodley Gallery lists a painting entitled "Pools Island", dated 1963, and with dimensions 19 X 45 inches; its medium is described as "oil, wood, and glass". This is one of several paintings listed in the catalogue whose titles - for whatever reason - are listed neither by Stanton (1968) nor by Yoseloff (1975).

Sources:

• Frank, Jane. Jane Frank (pub. New York, N.Y. : Bodley Gallery, 1963) [catalogue for solo exhibition, with dates given as Oct. 22 - Nov. 9th]. Available in the 'Jane Frank' vertical file at Decker Library, Maryland Institute College of Art. [1] (Worldcat link: [2]) OCLC 80892120
• Stanton, Phoebe B., "The Sculptural Landscape of Jane Frank" [highly informative and thorough monograph including b&w and color plates, 120pp. This is the most important and widely available published source on Jane Frank.] (A.S. Barnes: South Brunswick, New Jersey, and New York, 1968) ISBN 1-125-32317-5
• Yoseloff, Thomas, "Jane Frank: A Retrospective Exhibition" [This exhibition catalogue amounts to another full monograph on the artist, with very high quality color and b&w plates, extensive textual discussion and quotation of the artist, and much specific and detailed information on Jane Frank's life, career, and individual artworks: 51 pp.] (A. S. Barnes: New York and London, 1975) OCLC 2651512

MdArtLover 16:00, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pools Island, Pooles Island

The Wikipedia article "List of islands in Maryland" includes a "Pooles Island", which may be the one referred to in the painting title. According to the listing of United States lighthouses at Nightbeacon.com (a website serving as an "On-line lighthouse picture tour and history guide for lighthouses, lightships, and life-saving"), "Pools Island" is an alternate spelling for "Pooles Island", located in the Chesapeake Bay in Harford County, Maryland, and featuring an inactive lighthouse established in 1825 [3]. The Island's name is also sometimes spelled with an apostrophe as "Pool's Island" or "Poole's Island".

From the United States Lighthouse Society, Chesapeake Chapter, here is an information page on "Pooles Island", featuring a photo: [4]. The page warns: "This light is off limits to the general public because the island was used for bombing and shelling practice from 1918 through the early 1960's. There are many unexploded bombs and shells all over the island." Perhaps the dramatically colliding masses in Jane Frank's painting, emphasized with chunks of broken glass, were inspired by the island's history of bombardment, which began the year she was born.

Amusingly, a nudist beachgoer's information webpage (http://www.cabanatogo.com/nudecbay.html) includes "Poole's Island Beach", located "off shallow cove on east side of Poole's Island", on its list of "beaches accessible mostly by boat", but adds a warning in red: "restricted access by Aberdeen Proving Grounds because of danger of unexploded bombs- very private - stay off beach". MdArtLover 02:41, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] See also

• Pooles Island Light: Wikipedia now has an article about the lighthouse on Pooles Island (or Pools Island, as it is spelled in some sources).