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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 ...
Sep 29, 2017 · By 1952, however, when Greenberg was looking for a next step beyond the gestural application of Abstract Expressionism, Frankenthaler showed him a new kind of picture she had made through a pouring method she had developed—which she dubbed the “soak-stain.”. Frankenthaler would thin oil paints with turpentine (later, she would thin ...
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 ...
Helen Frankenthaler was an American painter and printmaker known for her unique method of staining canvas with thin veils of color. Her practice can be seen as a bridge between the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s and the Color Field painters of the 1960s. The techniques employed in works such as Mountains and Sea (1952)—a pastel blend of ...
The Helen Frankenthaler Catalogue Raisonné, LLC (the “Project”), will record works in all of the above mediums other than print editions.* The catalogue raisonné will document information relevant to each artwork—detailed histories of ownership, exhibitions, and publication history—as well as to Frankenthaler’s creative process ...
Frankenthaler evoked the symbolic features of the story through a combination of techniques that she had begun to employ in the 1950s. The image of a ladder emerged from a rectangular segment that Frankenthaler reinforced with relatively controlled, parallel brushstrokes, much the same way that the rungs of a ladder are constructed in real life.
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