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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Draw in and on the entire surface of it, color it in part, and make it a kind of sea. Gagosian is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Helen Frankenthaler in Rome, coinciding with an ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...