Born in Coffeyville, Kansas, Frances Marian Cronk (Truby Cronk) later moved to Colorado where she studied at the Broadmoor Art Academy in Colorado Springs and the Chappell House (forerunner to the Denver Art Museum). She was also a pupil of Thomas Hart Benton and John Sloan. Cronk was a recipient of a Guggenheim Traveling Fellowship in 1934.

Exhibited: Denver Art Museum, 1935 (prize); Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1936 (prize); Worlds Fair, 1939, Macbeth Gallery, New York; National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors (44th annual Exhibition); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Works held: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York ("Astor Square"); La France Art Institute, Philadelphia ("Still Life"); Graphic Sketch Club, Philadelphia ("Portrait")

Further Reading: Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Vol. 1. Peter Hastings Falk, Georgia Kuchen and Veronica Roessler, eds.,Sound View Press, Madison, Connecticut, 1999. 3 Vols. (Original Listing 1940)

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