A talented printmaker, illustrator and painter, Frasconi was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and raised in Uruguay. In 1954, he moved to New York to study at the Art Students League and New School for Social Research. His work has been widely exhibited in venues from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art to the Venice Biennale and Smithsonian Institution. By the mid-1950s, Frasconi was recognized as one of the leading woodcut artists of the United States. His work is held in the permanent collections of many national institutions including the metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museo Nacional des Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay; and Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Frasconi is listed in Who Was Who in American Art and Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers edited by Opitz.