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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 ...

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 ...

REUTERS - U.S. painter Helen Frankenthaler, who poured thinned pigments directly onto untreated canvas to create ethereal fields of color that were seminal works in the development of abstract ...

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 Expressionism is a storied movement continually re-told at blockbuster museums: We think we know it so well. The story, however, is still wrong. There are no women in it. The most recent show ...

DENVER — The paintings in Women of Abstract Expressionism at the Denver Art Museum are rich with emotion, monumental in scale, and totally original. Trine Bumiller: At Rhode Island School of Design I ...

The tall, generous Donald and Catherine Marron Family Atrium of New York’s Museum of Modern Art is a problematic space. It is often the site of the most extreme aspects of the museum’s exhibition ...

Emerging in the generation just behind the brawling boys’ club that was Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s, Helen Frankenthaler was the one who drew the most radical conclusions from Jackson ...

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