Waldo Frank

Waldo Frank was an American writer, novelist, journalist and critic (1889–1967). He was born at Long Branch and died at White Plains.

Also recorded as Waldo David Frank.

Waldo Frank in brief

Born
1889
Died
1967
Known for
writer, novelist, journalist and critic
Place of birth
Long Branch
Contents

Catalogued works

12 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago. Their recorded dates run from 1908 to 1965.

Chalk Face. Holiday. The Invaders. DAWN AND RUSSIA THE RECORD OF A JOURNEY. BIRTH OF A WORLD. Time Exposures, dated 1926, held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inventory 1977.682. Triptych Window from the Coonley Playhouse, Riverside, Illinois, dated 1912 (removed 1967), clear and colored leaded glass in oak frames, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1986.88. Desk, dated 1908, oak, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1972.304. De la nada vida a la nada muerte, dated 1965, metallic powder in polymer emulsion on canvas, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1966.335. Redescubrimiento de América : (Re-discovery of America) una introducción a una filosofía de la vida americana / Waldo Frank ; traducción de Hernán Guerra Canevaro., dated 1942, held by Wellcome Collection. Introduction to vertebrate embryology / Waldo Shumway ; F.B. Adamstone., dated [1954], held by Wellcome Collection. A laboratory manual of vertebrate embryology : anatomy of selected embryos of the frog, chick, and pig / by F.B. Adamstone and Waldo Shumway., dated 1939, held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 3 named public collections.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 2 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. The Art Institute of Chicago: 3 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 3 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

12 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Waldo, J. Frank, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011. 1. A Perspective on Waldo Frank, The Novels of Waldo Frank, 1955. José Ortega y Gasset - Waldo Frank. Epistolario (1922-1930), Revista de Estudios Orteguianos, 2018. The Novels of Waldo Frank, 1955. “South of Us”: Waldo Frank and José Carlos Mariátegui, Литература двух Америк, 2019. A New Discovery of “Our America”: the Cultural Utopia of Waldo Frank in the Context of Early American Modernism, Научный диалог, 2018. Waldo Frank e South American Journey no Brasil Circuitos da boa vizinhança e debates sobre brasilidade e mestiçagem (1942-1944), Varia História, 2026. Il sublime nell'età delle avanguardie. Ideale e tradizione artistica nella scena americana, CoSMO, 2016. Victoria Ocampo, una “empedernida escribidora de cartas”, Manuscrítica, 2023. A film by Robert Flaherty, in the Pampas, Shot by Sergei Eisenstein, for Victoria Ocampo, behind Waldo Frank's Back, Catedral Tomada: Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, 2021. In Search of “Our America”: Two Trips of Waldo Frank to Argentina (1929, 1942), Литература двух Америк, 2020. Waldo Frank and the USSR, Литература двух Америк, 2017.

Digitised editions and texts

12 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

The Jew In Our Day (1944) — Internet Archive. Summer never ends a modern love story (1941) — Internet Archive. Bridgegead The Drama Of Israel (1957) — Internet Archive. VIRGIN SPAIN (1942) — Internet Archive. George Eliot (1904) — Internet Archive. The Dark Mother (2025) — Internet Archive. George Eliot. New ed., to which are added a critical estimate of George Eliot's writings and supplementary chapters on her methods of work and her friends and home life (1904) — Internet Archive. Bridgehead The Drama Of Israel (2015) — Internet Archive. The Discovery of Man (1958) — Internet Archive. The Selected Poetry Of Robinson Jeffers (1927) — Internet Archive. [untitled] Science (1898-09-02), page 304 (1898) — Internet Archive. Chart For Rough Water: our role in a new world (1940) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 15 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 8 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 8 means 8 genuinely separate publishers of record. 10 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1889Waldo Frank born at Long Branch.
  2. 1893Modern Meteorology An Outline If The Growth And Present Condition Of Some Of Its Phase digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 1904George Eliot. New ed., to which are added a critical estimate of George Eliot's writings and supplementary chapters on her methods of work and her friends and home life digitised by Internet Archive.
  4. 1904George Eliot digitised by Internet Archive.
  5. 1926Time Exposures (The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
  6. 1941Summer never ends a modern love story digitised by Internet Archive.
  7. 1942VIRGIN SPAIN digitised by Internet Archive.
  8. 1944The Jew In Our Day digitised by Internet Archive.
  9. 1957Bridgegead The Drama Of Israel digitised by Internet Archive.
  10. 1967Waldo Frank died at White Plains.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    1. A Perspective on Waldo Frank, The Novels of Waldo Frank, 1955

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    José Ortega y Gasset - Waldo Frank. Epistolario (1922-1930), Revista de Estudios Orteguianos, 2018

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Open Library author record for Waldo Frank (Internet Archive), 2 catalogued works.

    Institutional database · Scholarly · Internet Archive

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  4. 4.

    The Novels of Waldo Frank, 1955

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    Waldo, J. Frank, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 12 articles naming Waldo Frank.

    open access index · Unverified

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  7. 7.

    Gemeinsame Normdatei 1123178291, Waldo, Frank.

    authority file · Unverified · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

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  8. 8.

    Internet Archive, 82 digitised items catalogued under Waldo Frank as creator.

    digital repository · Unverified

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  9. 9.

    The Art Institute of Chicago, collection records associated with Waldo Frank.

    museum collection · Unverified · The Art Institute of Chicago

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  10. 10.

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, collection records associated with Waldo Frank (2 objects).

    museum collection · Unverified · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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  11. 11.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 3 works naming Waldo Frank.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  12. 12.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q1858007: Waldo Frank

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation

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  13. 13.

    “Waldo Frank”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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