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Helen Frankenthaler, A Brief Biography Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), whose career spanned six decades, has long been recognized as one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. She was eminent among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters and is widely credited for playing a pivotal role in the transition ...
Mar 12, 2021 · Helen Frankenthaler ’s abstractions, often made by staining vibrant hues into unprimed canvas, have captured the minds of many, even if at one point, their aesthetic charm was once considered a ...
Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s until 2011), she spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ...
Mar 23, 2021 · Abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler poured pools of highly diluted pigments onto her raw canvases. Biographer Alexander Nemerov says her paintings are "about feeling the world."
The daughter of a New York State Supreme Court Judge, Helen Frankenthaler grew up in New York City. During high school she studied with the Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo, who taught her to value craftsmanship and materials. In 1946, Frankenthaler entered Bennington College, where she was encouraged to analyze space and composition by studying ...
Apr 5, 2021 · Frankenthaler and Motherwell divorced in 1971, and perhaps it should have been easier for peers and critics to re-situate her art within the generation that rebelled against the Ab Ex anguish. A ...
Artist: Helen Frankenthaler (American, New York 1928–2011 Darien, Connecticut) Date: 1957. Medium: Oil on unsized, unprimed canvas. Dimensions: 70 × 86 in. (177.8 × 218.4 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Gift of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, 2023. Accession Number: 2023.560. Rights and Reproduction: Helen Frankenthaler ...
