Jack Whitten in his book "Notes from the Woodshed" (Hauser & Wirth publishers, 2018) refers to Frances Bath as "a good painter"[...]  "I like her triangles - they remind me of my use of the triangle as an image other than the pure geometry of the form". (p. 71) and then later again on p. 76: "Frances Barth's paintings were just terrific at Susan Caldwell's. Frances is a good painter".

Frances Barth is a noted American artist. She makes abstract paintings and videos. She has exhibited her paintings widely in both solo and group exhibitions since the late 1960’s, and her work is represented in numerous public, corporate and private collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum, in NYC, The Dallas Museum of Art, TX, The Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo. Frances showed six of her paintings in the 2015 Venice Biennale at the Palazzo Grimani in "Frontiers Reimagined".

Frances Barth (b. 1946, The Bronx) is an American visual artist best known for paintings situated between abstraction, landscape and mapping. In her later career, she has she expanded her practice to include video and narrative work. Her awards include: The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2017; Elected into the National Academy, 2011; Anonymous Was a Woman Grant, 2006; American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, 2004; American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, 1999; Joan Mitchell Award, 1995; Adolphe and Esther Gottlieb Individual Support Grant, 1993; National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1982; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 1977; National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1974; Creative Artists Public Service (CAPS) Grant, 1973.Barth received her advanced degrees in painting and art history from Hunter College, CUNY, and has been working and showing her painting in New York and internationally since the 1960s.