On a warm Autumn evening, with the sun already setting and the moon beaming over the rusticated stone of Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, I walked through the fittingly elegant exhibition “Helen ...
The Clark Art Institute’s next exhibit features Helen Frankenthaler’s inventive approach to the woodcut and pioneering abstract art on nature. Director Olivier Meslay – in his first summer at the ...
WILLIAMSTOWN — You could call Helen Frankenthaler’s paintings no-man’s land — and not, thank you, because they were painted by a woman. It can be hard to identify, in her work, figure versus ground, ...
The beauty of Provincetown, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, inspired many works by one of the most renowned American artists of the 20th century: Helen Frankenthaler. But though you may notice shimmering ...
Nemerov knows a bit about pedigree. He is a professor, an author, a son of the poet Howard Nemerov and a nephew to photographer Diane Arbus. He nods to Frankenthaler’s privilege on Page 1: “A child of ...
Helen Frankenthaler, "Mountains and Sea" (1952) (© 2020 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York; image courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC) The cover ...
Helen Frankenthaler, “Flood” (1967), acrylic on canvas, 124 1/4 x 140 1/2 in. (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Purchase with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art ...
The J. Paul Getty Trust and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation are the latest nonprofits to offer aid to artists and arts organizations hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Through ...
Frankenthaler’s “Jacob’s Ladder,” showcasing her signature style, reminds us that she gave birth to a whole school of painting. This painting is abstract, meaning, I suppose, that anything I say about ...
THE AMERICAN ARTISTHelen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), known for her radical “soak stain” technique, has been having a mini-revival—a foundation in her honor was established last year, followed by an ...
Powerful, no? And gorgeous. Helen Frankenthaler did it in 1973 — 20 years after making a painting that took Jackson Pollock's abstract expressionism a step further. In 1950 she was wowed by the ropes ...