FRANK SPICKER
"IN THE GARDEN"
WATERCOLOR, SIGNED
AMERICAN, DATED 1933
21 X 18.75 INCHES

Frank Spicker
Born 1901
Frank Spicker was born in New York in 1901, by 1920 his family lived in Niagara Falls, New York.
Frank Spicker was an illustrator in New York in the 1920s and 1930s and later moved to Los Angeles to work as an art director in films.
He illustrated the cover of a collection of poems by John Cowper Powys, published by Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1922.
Spicker designed the artwork for the press book for the movie “Hell Harbor”, directed by Henry King in 1930, he was later an Art Director of Columbia Pictures.
While at Columbia Spicker was the art supervisor for a their annual book called “Columbia Pictures, 1933-1934” which chronicles the movies from Columbia in that year.
In Variety Magazine in 1937 it mentions Frank Spicker was leaving his position at Columbia as an art director.