Nemerov knows a bit about pedigree. He is a professor, an author, a son of the poet Howard Nemerov and a nephew to photographer Diane Arbus. He nods to Frankenthaler’s privilege on Page 1: “A child of ...

FIERCE POISE: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York by Alexander Nemerov (Penguin Press. 288 pp., $28) In 1956, Helen Frankenthaler was a rising young painter in the New York art world. Gordon Parks, ...

For a long time -- probably too long -- not enough people have thought about the far-reaching accomplishments of Helen Frankenthaler, foremost inventor in the 1950s of what is variously called ...

American abstract expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler photographed in her New York City studio in 1971. (Photo by Jack Mitchell/Getty Images) Jack Mitchell/Getty Images Helen Frankenthaler was ...

Helen Frankenthaler, "Mountains and Sea" (1952) (© 2020 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York; image courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC) The cover ...

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 ...

When the artist Helen Frankenthaler, then in her early 20s, met Jackson Pollock, he was building an international reputation with his drip paintings, in which he flung enamel paints—the kinds used for ...

A visitor looks at Helen Frankenthaler's Off White Square (1973) at a gallery in Southampton, N.Y. Powerful, no? And gorgeous. Helen Frankenthaler did it in 1973 — 20 years after making a painting ...

On a warm Autumn evening, with the sun already setting and the moon beaming over the rusticated stone of Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, I walked through the fittingly elegant exhibition “Helen ...

A new lawsuit claims that board members of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation -- dedicated to the work of the latest abstract expressionist -- is using the non-profit to promote self-interests. Getty ...

Abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler poured pools of highly diluted pigments onto her raw canvases. Biographer Alexander Nemerov says her... With 'Fierce Poise,' Helen Frankenthaler Poured ...