Born in 1921 in Switzerland, Frank Bacher and his family arrived in New York City on the steamship Bremer in 1930. He was active in New York in the 1940s and befriended Judith Rotshchild. Both artists (along with Sheri Martinelli), collaborated on a portfolio of screenprints and etchings published by the Joseph Luyber Galleries in 1946. Bacher relocated to San Francisco in the 1950s. He collaborated with writer Kenneth Patchen, making and printing illustrations for portfolios (Glory Never Guesses 1955; and, A Surprise for the Bagpipe Player, 1956), that were exhibited at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in 2009-2010. Bacher settled in Mill Valley, California and taught screenprinting and worked as a framer. He married and had a son who tragically died in an automobile accident at 17. Bacher continued to make work and exhibited nature inspired works—landscapes and assemblage, locally, often winning prizes. Sadly very little of his work exists, and details on the artist's life are few. Therefore the prints shown today by Dolan/Maxwell are rare - as well as very fine.