Box 2

Signed “Frances Manola, 11 Nassau Place, East Orange, NJ, Basic Design – 2/17/50.” 15 x 10 inches. From folder labeled “Basic Design Course – Manola.” Library has two examples.

Draft version unsigned, 6 3/8 x 5 inches. Final version signed Manola, 13 x 10 ¼ inches. From folder labeled “Basic Design Course – Manola.”

On verso: “Frances Manola. 11 Nassau Place, East Orange, N.J., Basic Design – 11/18/49.” 11 7/8 x 15 ¼ inches. From portfolio labeled “Small Drawings & Watercolors by F Manola.”

Signed Manola. Pencil [?]. 15 x 12 ¾ inches. From portfolio labeled: “Work by FM, Misc. small sketches & art work. Small watercolors done at 345 W. 55, NYC. Sketches & Other work under G.I. Bill & later works (…?) Sch. A+E Art (School of Advertising and Editorial Art).”

Signed F Manola. Oil. 15 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches. From portfolio labeled: “Work by FM, Misc. small sketches & art work. Small watercolors done at 345 W. 55, NYC. Sketches & Other work under G.I. Bill & later works (…?) Sch. A+E Art (School of Advertising and Editorial Art).”

Signed Frances Manola or Frances M. Manola, 1946-1947. [Graded work by art teacher.] Most are 13 7/8 x 11 inches. Library has 20 sheets from portfolio labeled: “Work by FM, Misc. small sketches & art work. Small watercolors done at 345 W. 55, NYC. Sketches & Other work under G.I. Bill & later works (…?) Sch. A+E Art (School of Advertising and Editorial Art).”

Signed Frances M. Manola. Pencil and ink sketches, 16 pages. Note on front “Very Good” [from teacher?]. 18 x 12 inches. “Work by FM, Misc. small sketches & art work. Small watercolors done at 345 W. 55, NYC. Sketches & Other work under G.I. Bill & later works (…?) Sch. A+E Art (School of Advertising and Editorial Art).”

Signed F Manola or Manola. 12 x 15 ¾ inches. On verso: “Pretty good – Angle not good – ‘Unfortunate’ – Avery Johnson. First watercolor I ever did. This was done the first session w/a teacher who commited [sic] suicide the next week. Frances Manola 10/46” From portfolio labeled “Small Drawings & Watercolors by F Manola.”

10 x 8 inches. Matted. Note on back “From my room on the 16th floor: painted ‘The Evangeline’ on 13th street, NYC. May 1952.” Now called The Markle Evangeline Residence, the building still stands and, according to its web-site, provides residences for women between the ages of 18 and 50 who come to New York for education, professional work or training programs.

Some signed “Manola” or dated 9/11/69 or 9/12/69. Several identified as Rockport, one as Old Garden Beach. 11 x 14 7/8 inches. Library has 8 paintings from portfolio labeled: “Work by FM, Misc. small sketches & art work. Small watercolors done at 345 W. 55, NYC. Sketches & Other work under G.I. Bill & later works (…?) Sch. A+E Art (School of Advertising and Editorial Art).”