Early Life, Training and Family Frank Gaard was born on December 20, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois. His formative years in the "City of Broad Shoulders" provided the backdrop for a career defined by a refusal to conform to normative perspectives. This deviation was not merely aesthetic; Gaard has wrestled with Bi-Polar Disorder for most of his life, a reality that has shaped his personal outlook and his approach to the creative process. His formal training followed a rigorous path through two significant institutions. He earned a B.F.A. in 1967 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.…
A chart of Frank Gaard's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.