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Dec 14, 2016 · Helen Frankenthaler pouring paint onto a large unprimed canvas as part of her soak-stain technique of painting. Ernest Haas/Getty Images. Helen Frankenthaler (Dec. 12, 1928 - Dec. 27, 2011) was one of America's greatest artists. She was also one of the few women able to establish a successful art career despite the dominance of men in the field ...
Artwork Description. Helen Frankenthaler's breakthrough as an abstract painter came when she discovered that paint thinned with turpentine and poured on raw canvas yielded rich colors and unexpected forms. Her titles were inspired by images that seemed "to come out of the pictures." When a shape that struck her as "Persian" emerged on this ...
Mar 12, 2021 · Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea, 1952. ©2020 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Photo National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C./Collection of Helen ...
Jun 18, 2021 · For a moment, among Helen Frankenthaler’s very, very big paintings, I thought I was there among the skyscrapers, until I looked out of the window and saw some blokes sweating outside a Georgian ...
Press Release / Info. As in Nature: Helen Frankenthaler Paintings, on view exclusively at the Clark Art Institute July 1–October 9, focuses on nature as a long-standing inspiration for the artist. Like many abstract artists, Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) continually tested the constraints of the genre, at times inserting into her ...
A major artist of the abstract expressionist movement, Helen Frankenthaler marked the transition to Colour Field painting. The daughter of State Supreme Court judge Alfred Frankenthaler and Martha Lowenstein, she graduated from the Dalton School in 1945 and studied at Bennington College in Vermont. At first inspired by Cubism, her work later ...
Sep 19, 2021 · Their soaring radiance is an abiding characteristic of the paintings of Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), one of the great pioneers of American postwar abstraction. Yet a further astonishment, at ...
