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 ...

Berggruen Gallery is proud to present Helen Frankenthaler: Paintings, an exhibition of paintings from 1953-1978 by one of the preeminent artists of her time, Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011). This ...

I'm a convert. Helen Frankenthaler, coming out of the abstract expressionist hotbed in New York in the early 1950s, always seemed to me to have something "wrong" about the color and form in her famed ...

She was only 23 when she created "Mountains and Sea," building on Jackson Pollock's technique by poured highly thinned oil paint from coffee cans directly onto the raw canvas. Louis later said ...

So my friends, on this day of incessant 100° heat in LA, let's talk about something cool, very cool. Of course, I'm talking about cool art –– about two major exhibitions: Helen Frankenthaler at ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Helen Frankenthaler, an abstract painter known for her bold, lyrical use of colour who led a postwar art movement that would later be termed Color Field painting, died Tuesday at her ...

At a time when the art world was still dominated by men, Helen Frankenthaler's abstract canvasses earned the respect of critics and influenced generations of artists. One of the major abstract ...

Helen Frankenthaler, the lyrical artist who was a key figure in postwar American abstract art, died yesterday at her home in Darien, Conn. She was 83. A regular summer resident of the artist colony at ...

If you think it is hard to make it as a woman artist today, consider the macho 1950s when Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) first gained attention. Against a background dominated by Jackson Pollock and ...

Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011), born in New York City, was an American abstract expressionist painter known for her pioneering use of the "soak-stain" technique, which involved pouring thinned paint ...