Recapturing The Nude is a unique creative endeavor which will include a variety of disparate elements. Jan Frank's drawings are experiments in the interpretation of the visual. The various parts of the book illuminate the world he inhabits and inform the work. This monograph will include:

• Over 30 color reproductions of Jan Frank's unique drawings
• A verbal collaboration between Chuck Close and Jan Frank exploring the similarity of their working methods and aesthetic
• An Introduction by B.H. Friedman (Author of Jackson Pollock; Energy Made Visible, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and numerous monographs)
• An essay by Fred Wagmans (Director of Museum Fodor, an extension of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam)
• A short story by the late beat writer Jack Micheline
• Color plates of selected Jan Frank paintings which reveal the importance of drawing to the artist's work

"For over twenty years and through numerous solo shows, Jan Frank has been obsessed by line.An active line inspired by the gestural organic shapes of such Abstract Expressionists as Pollock and de Kooning. A line, as in Mondrian, that creates spaces in which he can put paint when he wants to. A line which risks 'accidents,' from which Frank recovers by ultimately incorporating them in the evolving image. A line which serves him well as he fluctuates between figurative and landscape sources. There is an aleatory quality in Frank's work, emphasized by his naming all of his paintings from 1992 to 1997 after race horses (Cigar, Skinaway, J's Dream, etc.-). In somewhat the same way that lie picks winning horses from available data, he picks winning gestures from a vocabulary that extends from his Dutch roots (van Gogh, Mondrian) to the freer forms of his adopted country (Guston and Tomlin as well as Pollock and de Kooning and so many others)."