Ken Frank, Sr TSR Illustration & Advertising Art Auction
online only auction•15 day sale •sale is over
Dates
Sale Starts
Tue
Apr 30
6pm
Sale Ends
Tue
May 14
6pm
Terms
UPDATE: THIS SALE HAS BEEN TRANSITIONED TO AN ONLINE ONLY AUCTION. URL HAS BEEN UPDATED. THE AUCTION IS NOT LIVE YET…
UPDATE 4/4/2024 8:19 PM- This estate sale has been canceled due to illness. My deepest apologies, we only have 2 healthy associates at the moment and are unsure when the others will be returning to work. We will be switching this sale to an online only auction. The auction is currently being built and the URL will be posted with a new advertisement and auction listing in the next few days. Items will open for bidding in the next week or two as we set for an person preview at our gallery.
Please feel free to call or text 414-614-1911 or 262-994-4976 at anytime for more details or updates.
POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS!! Our apologies we have an illness running through our shop and will be postponing the sale until next week. We are sorry for any inconvenience but we do not wish to get anyone else sick.
Kenneth Frank, Sr Estate Auction to clear the remaining collection of Ken Frank, SR Collection of Advertising spanning his career from the 1960s to the 1990s & TSR (Dungeons & Dragons) etchings, paintings, drawings, illustrations, storyboards and custom works including: Hamms, Miller, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Boeing, Green Bay Packers Museum Commission, Political Patriotic Cartoon Painting with a Donald Rumsfeld letter requesting a copy, Wildlife Original Paintings and much more…. Mr. Frank was a prolific illustrator with hundreds of pieces from each stage of his employment & illustration career.
This is an early preview into the art and employment life of Ken Frank, SR to be showcased in this sale.
DETAILS, URL, and more PHOTOS OF THIS SALE WILL BE POSTED CLOSER TO START DATE.
Please contact Heirloom Estate Services at 414-614-1911 or 262-995-4976 with any questions or for more details.
Kenneth Frank SR
December 25, 1924 - March 22, 1999
Kenneth Carl Frank Sr. was born December 25, 1924 in Watertown, WI. His family lived in Fort Atkinson, WI. He was drafted into the U.S. Navy where he was signalman during WWII. After his service, he went to school at UW-LaCrosse, University of Chicago and the Layton School of the Arts in Milwaukee, WI.
After Art School, he went to work at Boeing as an artist, in Wichita, KS. While working for The Boeing Company he met Ellen Brown of Ark City, KS. They were married in 1953 and then they were graced with twin boys Steven & Charles. The family moved to St. Louis, MO where Ken worked for McDonald Douglas as an illustration artist. From St. Louis the family moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico where he worked for Sandia Corporation and his third son Kenneth Jr. was born. Ken took a job working for Boeing in Wichita, KS and then moved to illustrator jobs in Fort Worth and Lubbock, TX before returning to work for Boeing in Seattle, WA. In 1972 Kenneth Frank moved his family to WIsconsin where he took a job at the Milwaukee Journal as an illustrator. Mr. Frank later became the Art Director at Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac, WI. In 1983, Ken founded Draw Pardners Studio in West Bend, WI with his son, Charles. Draw Pardners worked with numerous national companies including TSR where he is now famous for his interior art work. Ken Frank worked for over 50 years as a professional illustrator and artist.
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Anonymous:
I am here to tell you that Ken is among the best that the Greyhawk Franchise artist ever had and easily is the best illustrator of the 2nd Edition Greyhawk Era.
Ken has a classic D and D style, his use of color to create dynamic moods and settings is unsurpassed. But his forte is black and white line drawings, that tends to be on the sketchy side but full of rich detail and expressive compositions with an added knack at drawing architecture.
Ken has that distinctive style in Greyhawk products and his characterizations of elves and gnomes were “iconic”.
Ken was one of those truly naturally gifted artists.
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