Artist: Helen Frankenthaler (1928 - )
Nationality: American
Movement: Abstract Expressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Helen Frankenthaler studied at Bennington College in Vermont under abstract artist Hans Hoffman and Rufino Tamayo. It was in the period of her artistic development that she developed her technique of applying thin, diluted paint to a plain canvas to acheieve the effect of her other medium, watercolors. Her large paintings pay attention to the forms created through her method and are reminiscent of landscape paintings. Frankthaler was married fellow artist Robert Motherwell from 1958 to 1971.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Helen Frankenthaler - The Bay 1963 acrylic on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Helen Frankenthaler - Air Frame 1965 silkscreen Hofstra Museum American
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Helen Frankenthaler - Wales 1966 acrylic on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Helen Frankenthaler - Sun Mountain 1968 Acryilc on Canvas Birmingham Museum of Art American
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Helen Frankenthaler - Before the Caves 1958 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Helen Frankenthaler - Untitled 1969 acrylic on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Helen Frankenthaler - Seer 1980 acrylic on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Helen Frankenthaler, American, Born in 1928 Dawn After the Storm 1957 Oil and alkyd on
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Helen Frankenthaler - Jacob's Ladder 1957 oil on unprimed canv The Museum of Modern Art American
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©Yousuf Karsh ; Yousuf Karsh, Canadian (born in Armenia) 1908 Helen Frankenthaler USA, 1991 Photograph,
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Helen Frankenthaler, American, Born in 1928 Floe IV 1964 Acrylic emulsion on canvas 142.2 x
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Helen Frankenthaler - Orange Shapes in Frame 1964 acrylic on canvas Tufts University Art Gallery American
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Robert Motherwell Untitled Collotype with collage 1974
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Robert Motherwell Capriccio Collotype and photo-screenprint 20th century
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Robert Motherwell Automatism A Lithograph 1965 - 1966
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Gari Melchers - Helen Lothrop Prall 1884 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Helen Hyde Teasing the Daruma Color woodcut 1905
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Maerten van Heemskerk - Panoramic Fantasy with the Abduction of Helen 1535 oil on canvas The Walters Art Museum Dutch
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Robert Motherwell Hermitage Color lithograph and screenprint on Arches Cover paper 1975
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Helen Hyde A Summer Girl Color woodcut 19th - 20th century
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Robert Motherwell Untitled Etching printed in brown-black ink from zinc plate on Rives BFK paper 1965 - 1966
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Helen Frankenthaler May 26th backwards Color lithograph 1961
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Jacques Sablet - Helen Saved by Venus from the Wrath of Aeneas 1779 oil on paper on canv Los Angeles County Museum of Art Swiss
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Helen Mann Delphinium watercolor 1931
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Helen Frankenthaler Essence Mulberry Color woodcut on Manai buff handmade paper 1977
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Helen Siegal ? Charles woodcut 1953
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The Abduction of Helen, Jean Mignon (died N/A) , Etching
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Robert Motherwell Untitled, fourth plate from the portfolio,Ten Works x Ten Painters Color screenprint printed in black and ochre with collage of white Arches paper 1964
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Anonymous The Return of Helen Etching circa 17th century
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Helen Shupla Ribbed Vessel Earthenware 1984
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Untitled, Helen MacGregor , 1921, Gelatin-silver print
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Untitled, Helen MacGregor , 1920, Gelatin-silver print
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Untitled, Helen MacGregor , 1921, Gelatin-silver print
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Untitled, Helen MacGregor , 1921, Gelatin-silver print
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Untitled, Helen MacGregor , 1921, Gelatin-silver print
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Untitled, Helen MacGregor , 1921, Gelatin-silver print
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The Abduction of Helen by Paris
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Helen Bruton Light Refreshments etching 1930
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Anonymous The Arrival of Paris and Helen (fragment) wool and silk 1480 - 1500
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Helen Allingham Thomas Carlyle 19th century
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I.D. Melter Fan: The Abduction of Helen oil on ivory, mother-of-pearl late 19th century
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Plate with the Abduction of Helen
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Henry Wolf Portrait of Helen 1911
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Untitled, Helen MacGregor , circa 1921, Gelatin-silver print
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Untitled, Helen MacGregor , circa 1921, Gelatin-silver print
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Untitled, Helen MacGregor , circa 1921, Gelatin-silver print
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Untitled, Helen MacGregor , circa 1921, Gelatin-silver print
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Untitled, Helen MacGregor , circa 1921, Gelatin-silver print
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Untitled, Helen MacGregor , circa 1921, Gelatin-silver print
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Untitled, Helen MacGregor , circa 1921, Gelatin-silver print
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Untitled, Helen MacGregor , circa 1921, Gelatin-silver print
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Untitled, Helen MacGregor , circa 1921, Gelatin-silver print
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Untitled, Helen MacGregor , circa 1921, Gelatin-silver print
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Red-Figure Lekythos
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Bernardo Daddi - Madonna and Child with Saints Helen and Peter and Saints Catherine and Paul 1339 tempera and gold gro Minneapolis Institute of Arts Italian
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Helen Hyde Her Bit color etching 1918
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Helen B. Stevens Bryn Mawr College 19th - 20th century
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Mark Adams Fan: The Elopement of Helen lithograph on paper and mother of pearl late 19th century
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Helen West Heller Saint Francis Singing wood engraving 1928
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Helen Phillips Untitled On handmade paper 1952

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (11)
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Neuberger Museum of Art: Frankenthaler: A Selection of the Paintings from the Collection of the Artist 1952-1992
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Leslie Sacks Fine Art: Works by Helen Frankenthaler
According to the critic, Clement Greenberg, “Mountains and Sea" (1952), Frankenthaler's first “stained painting,” was the 'first monument of Post-Painterly Abstraction,’ and it is certainly one of the most important works in the 'Colour-Field' sty...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami: Frankenthaler: Paintings on Paper (1949 – 2002)
Frankenthaler: Paintings on Paper (1949 – 2002) is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art and is curated by MOCA Director Bonnie Clearwater. Following its MOCA presentation, the exhibition will be on view at Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academ...
Museum of Arts and Sciences: Crossing the Threshold with Thelma and Louise
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Rutgers University, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum: Blocks of Color: American Woodcuts from the 1890s to the Present
Blanche Lazzell adapted cubism to render still lifes and the hills of West Virginia in brilliant yellows, oranges, greens, and blues. By the middle of the twentieth century, artists were transforming the woodcut to display bold colors and abstract...
Portland Museum of Art: Leonard Baskin: Monumental Woodcuts
Monumental woodcuts--fashioned from multiple blocks joined together--were made as early as the Renaissance by artists such as Jacopo de Barbari, Hans Schufelein, and Albrecht Durer. The subjects were usually grand views, narrative compositions, or...
National Academy of Design: Challenging Tradition: Women of the Academy, 1826-2003
A strength of this exhibition is the numerous self-portraits by women artists. One membership requirement of newly elected Academicians is that all must donate a portrait of themselves to the museum's permanent collection. This has provided the Ac...
Neuberger Museum of Art: Placing Avery
Milton Avery had a strong, “Connecticut Yankee” work ethic. He painted for 50 years, some times spending all day for weeks at a time at his easel, and sometimes creating as many as five or six paintings or studies in one day.  He’s been quoted as...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: Sam Gilliam: A Retrospective
A retrospective reveals the hallmarks of Gilliam’s constantly evolving aesthetic: exploration, risk and formal invention. The exhibition features monumental paintings, elaborate mixed-media constructions and installations. Organized by the Corcor...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Action-Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940–1976
Beginning in the 1940s, Pollock and de Kooning created paintings and sculptures that catapulted American art onto the international stage. In magazines as diverse as Partisan Review, The Nation, ARTnews and Vogue, Greenberg and Rosenberg wrote inc...
Eric I. Spoutz Gallery: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993): A Comprehensive Retrospective
"The subject matter of my paintings has become so completely buried that it doesnít matter what I paint, whether it is my shoes, my dog, the work clothes, my easels, or the bridges of New York. It is the painting first and subject matter latter. I...

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