Helen Frankenthaler

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Helen Frankenthaler

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• Abstract Expressionist Painter, Born 1928

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The American painter Helen Frankenthaler is a
second-generation abstract expressionist widely
considered "the country's most prominent living
female artist." A New York City native,
Frankenthaler was graduated from the Dalton
School, where she studied with the Mexican
painter Rufino Tamayo. After earning her B.A.
degree at Bennington College in Vermont, she
moved back to New York. In 1950 Frankenthaler
encountered the influential art critic Clement
Greenberg, through whom she met the major figures
in New York's avant-garde art world.
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HELEN FRANKENTHALER b. 1928Viewpoint II,
1979Acrylic on canvas, 81 1/4 X 94 1/2" (206.38
X 240.03 cm.)Signed, lower rightGift of Paul
and Suzanne Donnelly Jenkins, 989-0-108
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• The use of unprimed canvas and the artist's union
  of figure and ground were triggered by an
  encounter with Jackson Pollock's black-and-white
  paintings at an exhibition at the Betty Parsons
  Gallery, New York in 1951. Pollock's rejection of
  the conventional brush and easel encouraged
  Frankenthaler's more liberated approach to the
  canvas.
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Helen FrankenthalerAmerican, born 1928Untitled
(study for Postcard for James Schuyler),
1962Drawing in acrylic, oils, and crayon over a
lithograph, on cream paper19 7/8 x 25 3/4 in.
(50.7 x 65.4 cm)Gift of Mrs. George R. Rowland,
Sr., 1994 1994.118http//www.mfa.org/handbook/por
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• The work of Jackson Pollock proved the decisive
  catalyst to the development of her style.
  Immediately appreciating the potential, not fully
  developed by Pollock, of pouring paint directly
  onto raw unprimed canvas, she thinned her paint
  with turpentine to allow the diluted color to
  penetrate quickly into the fabric, rather than
  build up on the surface. This revolutionary
  soak-stain approach not only permitted the
  spontaneous generation of complex forms but also
  made any separation of figure from background
  impossible since the two became virtually fused a
  technique that was an important influence on the
  work of other painters, particularly Morris Louis
  and Kenneth Noland.
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Mountains and Sea1952Oil on canvas7' 2 5/8" x
9' 9 1/4"National Gallery of Art, Washington
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• By pouring thinned-down paint directly onto bare
  canvas that absorbed the pigment into its fibers,
  the artist created breathing landscapes of
  transparent planes of color washes.
  Frankenthaler, who insists she is not an Action
  painter, makes the fluidity of the paint as it
  seeps into and through the canvas not the
  gesture of the painter, as in Pollock's drips
  primary to the animation of her work.

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Seeing the Moon on a Hot Summer Day1987Acrylic
on canvas8' 7 3/8" x 5' 4 1/4"Private
collection http//www.artchive.com/artchive/ftpoc/
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For many years Frankenthaler executed stained
canvases that seem nonrepresentational, but which
are actually based on real or imaginary
landscapes. During the summers, she worked in
Provincetown, Massachusetts, and in the mid-1970s
she bought a second home and studio in
Connecticut. In addition to her two-dimensional
work, Frankenthaler produced welded steel
sculptures she has also explored ceramics,
prints, and illustrated books, and in 1985 she
designed the sets and costumes for a production
by England's Royal Ballet. She has taught at New
York University, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale and
has had numerous one-woman exhibitions of her
work, including important retrospectives at the
Whitney Museum of American Art in 1969 and New
York's Museum of Modern Art in 1989.
Frankenthaler has won many awards and has been
the subject of a documentary film.
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Helen FrankenthalerCaptain's Watch, 1986acrylic
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Helen Frankenthaler
La Sardana
Lithograph and etching in 5 colors
1987
35 x 25-3/8 inches
Edition of 60 Signed and numbered.
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Helen Frankenthaler
Ramblas
Lithograph and etching
1988
34 x 26 inches
Edition of 75. Signed and numbered
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