FEBRUARY 22, 1936 – AUGUST 26, 2019

Frank Roth was a long-time resident of East Hampton. He purchased a house on Accabonac Road in 1970 that was his home and studio until 2018.

Frank Roth was born in Boston to Anna Krigman Roth and Harry Roth on George Washington’s birthday, February 22, 1936, the youngest of four children. His early life was spent in Nutley, New Jersey. He attended the High School of Music and Art in Newark, NJ and apprenticing to painter George Mueller. In 1955 he moved to New York to study at Cooper Union Art School before becoming a student at the Hans Hofmann school of art in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Roth’s first one-man exhibition in 1958 at the Artists’ Gallery in New York at age 22 brought considerable acclaim and focus to his talent. In 1958 he was included in the Whitney Museum ‘s Annual of Contemporary Painting exhibition, and again in 1960 in a group exhibition “Young America-60.”

Success followed Frank Roth in the years following with exhibitions in many prestigious galleries including the Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Martha Jackson Gallery, OK Harris Gallery in New York City, Molly Barnes Gallery in Los Angeles, the Anderson-Myer Gallery in Paris, France, and the Hamilton Gallery in London, England,  Minister of Foreign Affairs, 4th International Exhibition of young artists in Tokyo, Japan.among others.

 Frank Roth’s many awards include Ford Foundation Purchase Prize 1962, Guggenheim Fellowship 1964, Ford Foundation Artist-in Residence at University of Rhode Island 1966, National Endowment of the Arts 1977, and Chaloner Prix de Rome 1961.

Frank was a first generation American. According to records, in 1906, Frank’s mother, Chasche (Anna) Krigman arrived in Ellis Island from Russia with her family at the age of four.  It is unclear whether Harry Roth was born in America or Russia. Little is known about his background other than he worked in the printing industry. The Roth family lived in Bellville and Nutley, New Jersey.

 Frank was the youngest of four children. His siblings David, Rivoli, and Richard predeceased him. He was survived by his wife of fifteen years, the artist Linda Lockhard Roth, who was responsible for documenting his work.