Frank H. Desch

Frank H. Desch was born in Philadelphia and received his early training under William Merritt Chase at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts beginning in 1906. Upon graduating in 1909, he continued his education under Charles Hawthorne at his Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and in 1914, Desch joined Hawthorne and several other painters in establishing the Provincetown Art Association with the aim of collecting and exhibiting the work of local artists. Desch showed annually with the association until his death in 1934.