Celebrated for his Texas landscape paintings, Frank Klepper was also highly regarded as a teacher, graphic artist, ceramicist, and muralist. Raised in McKinney, Texas, he later left to pursue his interest in art, studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. His training was cut short when the United States entered World War I, and he enlisted in the army. After serving overseas, he remained in France to study at the American Art Training Center in Bellevue-la-Montagne.
Upon returning to Texas, Klepper settled in Dallas, where he founded the Southwestern School of Fine Arts. Active in the city’s art community, he taught etching and ceramics at the Dallas Public Evening School for more than thirty years, served as chairman of the art department at the Dallas Woman’s Forum, and established the Klepper Sketch Club in 1930.
