Mary Ellen Frank Art Figures/Dolls
specializing in wood portraits & Northern Native Americans

My figures are portrait sculptures constructed with  doll making techniques. 

Each figure is created as a likeness and intended to be a lasting work of art.  

They are available by commission. 


Previously completed projects include portraits of:


an Inuit art collector’s favorite artists;

a master quilter in her beloved dress on a household chair working on her prize winning quilt;

a Tsimshian woman shaman for a local woman doctor;

a series of couples from each major group of Alaska Native peoples; and,

three generations of Yupik women with the granddaughter making her first doll.


My work:


is in permanent collections in museums;

has been invited to national exhibitions; 

is in corporate collections; and

has been featured in national magazines and books.

Mary Ellen works on her class doll while Dolly Spencer signs her copy of the book Eskimo Dolls.  1988
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