Frank March Rines was born in Dover, New Hampshire on June 3, 1892.
After graduating from high school in 1911, Frank commuted from Dover, New Hampshire to Boston and attended the Eric Pape Art School which he attended until he graduation in 1914. Frank spent the summer of 1911 and 1912 pencil sketching in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
Frank then attended the Fenway School of Illustration for one year beginning in the fall of 1914 and ending in the spring of 1915.
In 1915, Frank attended the Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston (subsequently re-named the Massachusetts College of Art) from which he graduated on June 19, 1918.
After graduating, Frank married Olga Lawson in 1918 and they moved to 18 Pond Street, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts on October 29, 1923, a stones through from Jamaica Pond, Frank's favorite fishing destination.
In 1922, Frank began his teaching career at the Massachusetts School of Art located at 364 Brookline Avenue in Boston as an instructor in pencil technique and elementary drawing. Frank continued to teach there until 1941.
Frank taught exclusively at the Massachusetts School of Art until 1928 which gave him the time and flexibility to travel and draw privately. In 1918 through 1924, Frank traveled throughout Vermont and New Hampshire drawing landscape scenes in pencil. In the summer of 1924, Frank and two of his closest friends set out on a drawing trip in Vermont. They documented their adventures in an unpublished work entitled “Three Weeks in Vermont” in words and pictures.
In 1928 Frank began teaching at the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture located at 53 Church Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts as an instructor in freehand drawing in addition to his employment with the Massachusetts School of Art. Frank went abroad with his Cambridge School students to Oxford, England in the summer of 1928 for a period of eight weeks. During that trip Frank created several pencil and ink drawings.
In 1928, Frank began working on his first instructional drawing book entitled “Drawing in Lead Pencil”. Publication began in 1929 and included many drawings created on Frank’s 1928 trip abroad to Oxford, England and many from his travels in Vermont. Frank subsequently authored several more books as referenced below.
Frank continued to teach freehand drawing at the Cambridge School and in 1930 he began teaching summer courses in Rockport, Massachusetts as an extension class of the Cambridge School. As a result, Frank and Olga began summering in Rockport Massachusetts. In addition to his Cambridge School extension classes, Frank taught privately in Rockport and opened an art studio at the rear of 6 Pleasant Street. In 1932 Frank became a member of the Rockport Art Association. In 1935, Frank became a founding member of an association known as the Rockport Art Galleries which consisted of a group of independent galleries owned by well known local Rockport artists including; William Lester Stevens, Joseph Eliot Enneking, Arthur J. Hammond and Marian Parkhust Sloane. Frank continued to teach for the Cambridge School Rockport extension through 1936 and continued to teach and paint privately in Rockport through 1941. During the period of 1930 through 1941, Frank taught and painted on the streets and docks of Bear Skin Neck in Rockport alongside other well known artists such as Aldo Hibbard. It was during this Rockport period that Frank began working primarily in oils and pastels.
Frank M. Rines became director of the Copley Society and the Boston Center for Adult Education and served on several art juries.
His quiet passing in 1962 at his residence in Jamaica Plain Massachusetts was noted on local television news broadcasts.
Listed:
Mantle Fielding's Guide
Who's Who in American Art, 2nd edition
Studied:
Eric Pape Art School, Boston, MA (1911 – 1914)
Fenway School of Illustration, Boston, MA (1915)
Massachusetts College of Art (1915 – 1918)
Member:
Rockport Art Association
Rockport Art Galleries
North Shore Art Association
Copley Society (Director)
South Shore Art Center
Washington Watercolor Club
Marblehead Art Association
Works at:
Fogg Art Museum (received 1973)
1. “At the fork in the Road, Gloucester” (drawing on paper)
Boston Museum of Fine Arts (received 1974)
1. “Weston, Vermont graveyard” (drawing on paper)
Library of Congress (received 1932 – 1984)
1. “Portfolio of pencil sketches for junior high & high schools” (catalog - 1932)
2. “Pencil sketches” (catalog - 1935)
3. “Design and construction in tree drawing” (catalog - 1936)
4. “Pencil drawing by Frank M. Rines” (catalog - 1940)
5. “Landscape drawing with pencil by Frank M. Rines” (catalog - 1964)
6. “Landscape drawing with pencil by Frank M. Rines” (catalog - 1984)
Hood Museum (received1987)
1. “Old Doorway, 1770, Portsmouth, N.H.” (drawing on paper, 11½” x 10 ¼”)
2. “Williams River, Rockingham, Vermont” (drawing on paper, 11½” x 14 ½”)
Taught:
Massachusetts College of Art (1922 – 1941)
Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, (1928 – 1936)
Drawing in Lead Pencil (1929) first edition, 2nd 1933, 3rd 1937 and 4th 1943,
all with Bridgman Publishers Inc., Pelham New York
Pencil Sketches (1932), Copyright - Boudreau-Yuhas, Published by Bridgman Publishers Inc., Pelham New York - 1935
Design and Construction in Tree Drawing (1936) first edition, revisedin 1946 and renamed “Tree Drawing”, both withBridgman Publishers Inc., Pelham New York
Pencil Drawing (1940) first edition, 2nd 1941, 3rd 1944, 4th 1947, all with Bridgman Publishers Inc., Pelham New York
Landscape Drawing with Pencil (1964) Copyright, last printing 2001 - Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., New York, N.Y., British edition by Oak Tree Press Co., Ltd.
Exhibitions:
Boston Architectural Club (1926)
Fitchburg Art Center, Fitchburg MA (1931)
Boston Art Club (1932 - 1933)
Twentieth Century Association, Joy Street, Beacon Hill (1935),
MIT, Architectural Department (1931 - 1935)
Jordan Marsh, Boston, MA (1935 – 1959)
Art Club of Washington D.C.. (1949)
Copley Society, Boston, MA (1949)
Boston Public Library (1965)
Rockport Art Association, Rockport, MA (1988),
Currier Museum, Manchester, NH (1988)
Marblehead Art Association, Marblehead, MA (1989 & 2008)
