Walking into the Nasher’s latest exhibition is like walking into a printmaking studio in the throes of production. In the foyer, you’re immediately met with three large black-and-white vinyl photos of ...
Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) and Jo Sandman (b. 1931) reveal new modes of conceptualizing art in the 1960s and printmaking’s role in that revolution. Born three years apart, Helen Frankenthaler ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. An interview of Helen Frankenthaler conducted 1968, by Barbara Rose, for the Archives of American Art. Frankenthaler speaks of studying art at ...
In 1952, Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) transformed abstract art with her first soak-stained painting, Mountains and Sea, which she made by pouring and brushing thinned out oil paint over raw canvas ...
Its large scale, and gestural splashes of colour are supremely painterly, and yet this is not a painting but a print, its free flowing, spontaneous-looking marks the result of multiple, effortful ...
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 ...
Helen Frankenthaler didn’t like being called a female artist, but as one of the only women to make a mark in the boys’ club of abstract expressionism, she found it hard to avoid the label. “For me, ...
Helen Frankenthaler‘s soak-stained canvases were a turning point in the history of art. Vibrant and flowing, suggestive yet ambiguous — these paintings were instrumental in her shift from Abstract ...
It’s been a lovely summer for fans of Helen Frankenthaler. Since May, the American artist’s work has been seen in Venice (at the Biennale) and in Rome (at the Gagosian), with another show, Abstract ...
“Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York,” by Alexander Nemerov (Penguin Press) There are doorstop biographies, and then there are appreciations. Alexander Nemerov has taken the latter ...
NEW BRITAIN — New Britain Museum of American Art will debut the first museum presentation dedicated to the late work of Helen Frankenthaler. “Helen Frankenthaler Late Works, 1990-2003,” features 22 ...
THE cavernous fourth story of Manhattan’s Whitney Museum, with its stark slate floors and 17-ft. ceilings, can seem as empty and remote as an abandoned temple. A-architecture, it is a demanding frame, ...