Paulette Frankl

Paulette Frankl is an American courtroom artist. Frankl was born in California, and attended Stanford University, where she majored in art and languages. Frankl exhibited her first artwork in Los Angeles at age 7 in a joint show with her father, Paul T. Frankl, an Art Deco furniture designer and architect. She worked with author Christopher Long, sharing documents, photos and family background for a 2007 biography of her father. Her courtroom ske... more

Paulette Frankl is an American courtroom artist. Frankl was born in California, and attended Stanford University, where she majored in art and languages. Frankl exhibited her first artwork in Los Angeles at age 7 in a joint show with her father, Paul T. Frankl, an Art Deco furniture designer and architect. She worked with author Christopher Long, sharing documents, photos and family background for a 2007 biography of her father. Her courtroom sketches, drawings and paintings from both federal and superior cases have aired on CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, WGN-TV and "Talk America" and have taken her to the U.S. Supreme Court. Frankl has authored a biography titled LUST FOR JUSTICE about J. Tony Serra, a well known radical civil rights attorney and tax resister. The book includes Frankl's original courtroom art of Serra during trial. Frankl has worked as a photojournalist for international magazines and has lived in both the U.S. and Europe. Her work includes a cover photo on France's... less