Emma Elizabeth Frizzell was born on August 26, 1958 to Agnes V. Wingate Frizzell and Robert H. Frizzell, Jr. in Houston, TX. She died peacefully at Harbor Hospice Central Houston on January 29, 2021.
Emma (Liz) was a talented artist and received her BA in from Rice University. She was also a valued design and production associate at the Houston graphic design firm Public Address Design for twenty-five years. She was closely involved with designing over 100 art monographs and exhibition catalogues for galleries and museums, including retrospectives at the Menil Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, and Contemporary Arts Museum, all in Houston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, all in New York. Reflecting her interests in cartoons, comics, and animation, and in Houston history, she was especially responsible for work on two Contemporary Arts Museum catalogues: "Splat! Boom! Pow!: The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art" and “No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston.” She enabled the realization of the River Oaks Garden Club’s 670-page, fifth edition of “A Garden Book for Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast,” for which she designed the voluminous charts and graphs on organic gardening.
Emma is survived by her brother Robert Walter and wife Linda of San Marcos, TX; brother Bradley Wingate and wife Elaina of Knoxville, TN. The family wishes to thank Joyce Harris and Don Quaintance for their many years of loving friendship and care of Emma.
There will be a Memorial Service officiated by Rev. Andrew (Andy) Gans in the chapel at Woodlawn Funeral Home, 1101 Antoine Dr, Houston, TX on Saturday, February 27, 2021, 11:00 A.M.
In lieu of flowers please make a donation to the Menil Collection, 1533 Sul Ross Street, Houston, TX 77006, www.menil.org or the Texas Art Asylum, 1719 Live Oak St, Houston, TX 77003, www.texasartasylum.com.
BIRTH
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
DEATH
29 Jan 2021 (aged 62) Houston, Harris County, Texas
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