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Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler 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, she spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work. Frankenthaler began exhibiting her large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in contemporary…
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culture · American painter (1928–2011) · printmaker · lithographer · painter · sculptor · graphic artist · draftsperson · artist · also Helen Frankenthaler, Mrs. Robert Burns Motherwell, H. Frankenthaler, Frankenthaler
Born 12 December 1928 · Died 27 December 2011 · Q235281
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2026· 3 entries
“A really good picture looks as if it”
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The New York Times: Helen Frankenthaler
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2024· 1 entry
Artnet: A Landmark Show Puts Helen Frankenthaler’s Masterpieces in Dialogue With Pollock and Rothko
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2023· 1 entry
Her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London
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2021· 5 entries
Hyperallergic: New Helen Frankenthaler Biography Favors Nostalgia Over Artist’s Interiority
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Northcountrypublicradio.org: With 'Fierce Poise,' Helen Frankenthaler Poured Beauty Onto Canvas
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Yahoo: Review: Helen Frankenthaler, underrated artist? A tantalizing but incomplete new bio of her rise
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A decade after her death the New Britain Museum of American Art mounted an exhibition of her works on paper from the final stages of her opus titled "Helen Frankenthaler; Late Works 1990 - 2003"
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The foundation created Frankenthaler Climate Initiative
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2019· 2 entries
Frankenthaler was included in Sparkling Amazons: Abstract Expressionist Women of the 9th St
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Vogue: The Evasive Genius of Helen Frankenthaler
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2018· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: Growing Up With Helen Frankenthaler on Cape Cod
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2017· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Helen Frankenthaler’s Panoramas of Paint
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2016· 1 entry
Her work was included in the exhibition Women of Abstract Expressionism organized by the Denver Art Museum
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2014· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: A Flower Arrangement Inspired by a Helen Frankenthaler Painting
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2011· 2 entries
At the age of 83 in Darien, Connecticut, following a long and undisclosed illness
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Died 2011-12-27.
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2009· 1 entry
"Helen Frankenthaler," December 10, 2009 – January 23, 2010)
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame (2005).
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2001· 1 entry
Was awarded the National Medal of Arts
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1995· 1 entry
Frankenthaler and Tyler collaborated again, creating The Tales of Genji, a series of six woodcut prints
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1994· 1 entry
Frankenthaler married Stephen M
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1990· 1 entry
Was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1994
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1989· 1 entry
Argued government funding for the arts was "not part of the democratic process" and was "beginning to spawn an art monster"
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1988· 1 entry
“But I wanted to work with shapes in a very different way. And instead of being involved in his technique, what evolved for me out of my needs and invention had to do with pouring paint, and staining paint.”
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1978· 2 entries
Producing numerous working proofs which show her aesthetic decision-making process
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Appropriately titled due to its earthy tones and allusions of geological layers
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1976· 1 entry
Frankenthaler began to work within the medium of woodcuts
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1963· 1 entry
Frankenthaler began to use acrylic paints rather than oil paints because they allowed for both opacity and sharpness when put on the canvas
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1961· 1 entry
Began to experiment with printmaking at the Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), a lithographic workshop in West Islip, Long Island
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1960· 1 entry
The term color field painting was used to describe the work of Frankenthaler
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1957· 1 entry
Frankenthaler began to experiment with linear shapes and more organic, sun-like, rounded forms
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1953· 1 entry
Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis saw her Mountains and Sea which, Louis said later, was a "bridge between Pollock and what was possible
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1952· 2 entries
With the exhibition of Mountains and Sea
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Had a profound impact on her works on paper
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1950· 1 entry
And had a five-year relationship with him
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1949· 1 entry
Studied privately with Australian-born painter Wallace Harrison, during the Non-resident term and with Hans Hofmann in 1950
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1928· 1 entry
Born 1928-12-12.
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