Washington Winter Show 2013

25 Edith ‘Edie’ Frankel died on June 5, 2012 from pancreatic cancer. Edie was born in what is now the Slovak Republic and arrived in New York at the age of 2. Her first career was that of a biology teacher. She married Joel Frankel in 1967 and founded E & J Frankel Ltd, one of the oldest Asian art galleries in the United States. Edie and Joel first exhibited at the Washington Antiques Show in 1982. Edie was first and foremost a teacher. A lecturer and author of dozens publications dealing with Asian art, Edie founded the Far Eastern art department at the New School for Social Research in Greenwich Village, New York. During her 17 years there, she taught courses in Chinese jade as well as general survey courses in Chinese and Japanese art. She also taught courses in Oriental Art at Brooklyn College and Montclair State College in New Jersey. Edie served on the Board of Directors of the Art and Antique Dealers League since the mid-1980s. Edie and Joel organized over a hundred themed exhibitions at their gallery dealing with a broad spectrum of Asian art including Chinese scholar’s rocks, Chinese jewelry (a special interest of Edie’s) as well as ancient Chinese games and contemporary Mongolian art. Edie loved talking with visitors about the objects in their booth, sharing her knowledge and educating new collectors. She was a fixture at our Appraisals event where she would spend as much time explaining the fine points of a child’s simple necklace of Peking glass as she would on a rare piece of jade. Edie was one of our most popular exhibitors and her presence will be greatly missed by the WWS committee members as well as by her many Washington clients. IN MEMORIAM — EDITH FRANKEL (1939–2012) Exhibitor Washington Antiques Show and Washington Winter Show This page is sponsored by Washington Winter Show Directors in memory of Edith Frankel