Diary of a tyro art promoter

This started in 2004 as a diary of what happened as I was promoting the art of my aunt, Hannah Frank, b. 1908, a Glasgow artist and sculptor, who studied at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1920s and beyond. My aunt died at the age of 100 in December 2008 but there's still lots going on: she was given Glasgow University‘s only posthumous doctorate, and she has achieved her wish of her art becoming ‘footsteps on the sands of time‘. Enter your email address below to get updates from this blog.

Sunday, December 12, 2004

Season's greetings

I just wanted to wish all visitors to this site a very happy Chanukah and Christmas (insert the midwinter festival of your choice here).... have you seen the 'goodgifts' website if you're worrying about what to buy for the friend who seems to have everything? www.goodgifts.org
all the best
Fiona

Saturday, December 11, 2004

'Then to the rolling Heav'n itself I cried' (1942)

A new title for an old picture

I have had various requests for 'new' prints of old Hannah Frank pictures during the year, and decided to get a set of them done recently. But what I didn't think would happen would be that Auntie Hannah would come up with a new title for one of the pictures! What happened was that when I showed her the proofs of the one she'd done in 1942, to which we had given the uninspiring title of 'two figures' in the book, she immediately remembered the verse from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam which had inspired the drawing:

Then to the rolling Heav'n itself I cried, Asking,
"What Lamp had Destiny to guide"
Her little Children stumbling in the Dark?" And--
"A blind Understanding!" Heav'n replied.

Here is the picture....