Sometimes I think my job can’t get any better – and then it does.
On Sunday, Sue and I were lucky enough to be invited to look through Hannah Frank’s book collection by her niece Fiona Frank. In case you haven’t heard of Hannah, she was a Glasgow artist and sculptor, who produced beautiful, haunting black and white drawings and incredible sculptures. She died in December 2008 at the age of 100. By all accounts an amazing woman, she continued to sculpt into her early 90s.
Hannah’s books themselves are gorgeous, but are made even more so by her personalised black and white ‘Ex libris’ bookplates. Many of them have beautiful, touching inscriptions from friends and family. It felt like such a privilege to look through Hannah’s books, as though we were getting an rare insight into her life as a young woman. As well as a lover of art, it’s clear that Hannah was a lover of books and language. Many of the books are from her student days at Glasgow University in the 1920s. What an achievement – to keep all your books together over a lifetime.
We’re over the moon to have some of Hannah’s books in our collection, and can’t wait to be in the new space where we can exhibit them.
In the meantime, if you’d like to find out more about Hannah’s life and her art, you can have a look at the following website:
http://hannahfrank.org.uk/pages/index.htm
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