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Name: Tami Satterfield Occupation: Art Dealer for D&K contemporary regional fine art What: Helen Frankenthaler’s Madridscape, 1959 Why I Love this piece: I was a junior in college sitting in a ...
While Hofmann, with whom Frankenthaler studied in Provincetown one summer, talked about the “push-pull” of color on the eye, Frankenthaler literally pushed and pulled pigment. (The term action ...
Portrait of American abstract expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler (1928 - 2011) as she poses in her studio, New York, New York, 1978. Photo by Brownie Harris/Corbis via Getty Images.
Helen Frankenthaler Biography ‘Fierce Poise’ Explores Early Career and ’50s New York Frankenthaler approached her art with “the pleasure of someone who does not take life for granted." ...
Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928). Jacob’s Ladder, 1957. On view at the Museum of Modern Art, ... the poetry of color and shape. There is a lot of variation in “Jacob’s Ladder.” ...
Devised in 1952, Helen Frankenthaler’s soak-stain technique built on the pouring technique of Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock.
“I ’m doing a book on Helen Frankenthaler,” Alexander Nemerov told me a few years ago, when we were at a symposium at the University of California, Davis: “About her work of the 1950s.” “Why just the ...
WSJ. Magazine. The Power Struggle Turning an Art World Legacy Upside Down Helen Frankenthaler is poised for a blockbuster comeback. Will a ‘poisonous mess’ within her foundation derail it all?
On view from March 9 at Gagosian in New York, Helen Frankenthaler’s little-seen late work reveals a mature talent exploring new techniques. Skip to Main Content Explore Our Brands ...
Helen Frankenthaler, an abstract painter known for her bold, lyrical use of color who led a postwar art movement that would later be termed Color Field painting, died Tuesday at her home in ...
Andrew Nemerov's 'Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York' charts the rise of an Abstract Expressionist painter knocked for her privilege.