Frank M. Rines

Frank March Rines (1892–1962) was an American landscape painter and theoretical born in Dover, New Hampshire on June 3, 1892.

Rines attended the Eric Pape Art School from 1911 until graduation in 1914. Rines later attended the Fenway School of Illustration for one year and the Massachusetts Normal Art School (Massachusetts School of Art) from 1915-1918.

Frank M. Rines moved to Boston in 1922 and began his teaching career at the Massachusetts School of Art as an speculative in pencil technique and elementary drawing. Rines continued to teach there until 1941 and with taught at the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Massachusetts University, Boston University and the Boston Center for Adult Education. Rines worked primarily in imitation of graphite and watercolor during his yet to be years which continued through the late 1920s.

Rines spent his summers in Rockport, Massachusetts from 1928 to 1941 where he taught and painted privately to the side of other renowned artists such as Aldro Hibbard. In 1932 Rines became a advocate of the Rockport Art Association. In 1935, Rines became a founding believer of the Rockport Art Galleries along later other well-known independent gallery owners, including William Lester Stevens, Joseph Eliot Enneking, Arthur J. Hammond, Marian Parkhust Sloane and Otis Pierce Cook, Jr. It was during this become old that Rines began keen primarily in oils and pastels.

Rines authored and published five instructional drawing books, with his first, Drawing in Lead Pencil, initially published 1929.

Rines was a enthusiast of many American art organizations, including the Rockport Art Association, the North Shore Art Association, the Washington Watercolor Club, the Marblehead Art Association and the Copley Society of Art, of which he became the Director.

His works are in many museums, including the Fogg Art Museum, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Hood Museum of Art and the Library of Congress.

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