1900-1951

Frank William Boggs was born in 1900 in the Seine-et-Oise region of Northern France to the American painter Frank Myers Boggs.

Boggs studied painting in the studio of his father in the rue de Clignancourt Paris, later giving up his architectural studies to devote himself entirely to painting. He specialized in depicting scenes of Paris, mainly in watercolour, and was associated with the École de Montmartre.

Frank-Will had many solo exhibitions in Paris, most notably at the Galerie George Petit in the 1920s.