Helen Frankenthaler
- Introduction
- Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s until 2011), she spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work. Frankenthaler began exhibiting her large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in contemporary museums and galleries in the early 1950s. She was included in the 1964 Post-Painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg that introduced a newer generation of abstract painting that came to be known as Color Field. Born in Manhattan, she was influenced by Greenberg, Hans Hofmann, and Jackson Pollock's paintings. Her work has been the subject of several retrospective exhibitions, including a 1989 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and been exhibited worldwide since the 1950s. In 2001, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. Frankenthaler had a home and studio in Darien, Connecticut.
- Wikidata
- Q235281
- Introduction
- Second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter developed the technique of staining raw canvas with pigment. She is credited as the progenitor of Color-field painting.
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Female
- Roles
- Artist, Lithographer, Woodcutter, Painter
- Names
- Helen Frankenthaler, Mrs. Robert Burns Motherwell, H. Frankenthaler
- Ulan
- 500115813
Exhibitions
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407: Frank O’Hara, Lunchtime Poet
Ongoing
MoMA
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405: Action Painting II
Ongoing
MoMA
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Artist’s Choice: Amy Sillman—The Shape of Shape
Oct 21, 2019–Oct 4, 2020
MoMA
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Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction
Apr 15–Aug 13, 2017
MoMA
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Abstract Expressionist New York
Oct 3, 2010–Apr 25, 2011
MoMA
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Helen Frankenthaler Great Meadows (recto); Untitled (Landscape) (verso) 1951
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Helen Frankenthaler Trojan Gates 1955
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Helen Frankenthaler Jacob's Ladder 1957
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Helen Frankenthaler May 26 Backwards 1961
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Helen Frankenthaler Brown Moons 1961
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Helen Frankenthaler Solarium 1964
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Helen Frankenthaler Sky Frame 1964
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Various Artists, Tom Wesselmann, George Segal, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Mon Levinson, Robert Kulicke, Nicholas Krushenick, Helen Frankenthaler, Jim Dine, Richard Anuszkiewicz New York Ten 1964–65, published 1965
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Helen Frankenthaler Air Frame from New York Ten 1965
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Helen Frankenthaler Orange Hoop 1965
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Helen Frankenthaler Persian Garden 1965–66
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Helen Frankenthaler Mauve District 1966
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Helen Frankenthaler Post Card for James Schuyler 1962–67, published 1967
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Helen Frankenthaler White Portal 1967
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Various Artists, Nell Blaine, Norman Bluhm, Joe Brainard, John Button, Giorgio Cavallon, Allan D'Arcangelo, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Michael Goldberg, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Al Held, Jasper Johns, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Alex Katz, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Alfred Leslie, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol (Marisol Escobar), Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Reuben Nakian, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jane Wilson Preparatory drawings for In Memory of My Feelings 1967
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Helen Frankenthaler Preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings 1967
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Helen Frankenthaler Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings 1967
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Helen Frankenthaler Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings 1967
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Helen Frankenthaler Unused preparatory drawing for In Memory of My Feelings 1967
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Helen Frankenthaler Paris Review 1967
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Nell Blaine, Norman Bluhm, Joe Brainard, John Button, Giorgio Cavallon, Allan D'Arcangelo, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Jane Freilicher, Michael Goldberg, Philip Guston, Grace Hartigan, Al Held, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Lee Krasner, Alfred Leslie, Roy Lichtenstein, Marisol (Marisol Escobar), Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, Reuben Nakian, Barnett Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Jane Wilson, Niki de Saint Phalle, Various Artists In Memory of My Feelings 1967
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Helen Frankenthaler In-text plate (folio 88 recto) from In Memory of My Feelings 1967
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Various Artists, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Helen Frankenthaler, Nicholas Krushenick, Roy Lichtenstein, George Segal The Metropolitan Scene 1968
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Helen Frankenthaler Sun Corner from The Metropolitan Scene 1968
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Helen Frankenthaler Yellow Span 1968
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Helen Frankenthaler Southwest Blues 1969
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Helen Frankenthaler Variation I on Mauve Corner 1969
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Helen Frankenthaler Silent Curtain 1967–69
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Helen Frankenthaler Venice 1969
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Helen Frankenthaler Variation II on Mauve Corner 1969
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Helen Frankenthaler A Slice of the Stone Itself 1969
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Helen Frankenthaler Commune August 9, 1969
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Helen Frankenthaler Lilac Arbor 1970
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Helen Frankenthaler Weather Vane 1969–70
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Helen Frankenthaler What Red Lines Can Do 1970
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Helen Frankenthaler Untitled from What Red Lines Can Do 1970
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Helen Frankenthaler Untitled from What Red Lines Can Do 1970
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Helen Frankenthaler Untitled from What Red Lines Can Do 1970
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Helen Frankenthaler Untitled from What Red Lines Can Do 1970
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Helen Frankenthaler Untitled from What Red Lines Can Do 1970
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Helen Frankenthaler Free Wheeling 1971
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Helen Frankenthaler Lot's Wife 1971
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Helen Frankenthaler Chairman of the Board 1971
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Helen Frankenthaler Crete 1969–72
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Helen Frankenthaler Venice II 1969–72
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Helen Frankenthaler Nepenthe 1972
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Helen Frankenthaler East and Beyond 1973
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Helen Frankenthaler I Need Yellow 1973
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