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Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler (1928 - 2011) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut.  Helen Frankenthaler is known for Abstract imagery-stain painting.

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Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011)

She was born in New York City on December 28, 1928, the third and youngest daughter of a noted justice of the New York Supreme Court and his German born wife.  She attended the exclusive Brearley School in Manhattan and the Dalton School where her art teacher was Rufino Tamayo.  He suggested that she go to Bennington College to study painting; her instructor there was Paul Feeley, an academic Cubist. She graduated from Bennington College in 1949 and studied with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown, Massachusetts in the summer of 1950. 

In her early days as an artist, Frankenthaler shared a Greenwich Village studio and its rent with Friedel Dzubas, whom she had met at the home of the critic Clement Greenberg.  Her circle of friends included Larry Rivers, Grace Hartigan and Joan Mitchell.  In April 1958 she married the leading Abstract Expressionist painter Robert Motherwell.  Their honeymoon was spent traveling in Fra   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 21094 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Helen Frankenthaler available:    Robert Burns Motherwell,  Sam Lewis Francis,  Frank Stella,  Jim Dine,  Adolph Gottlieb,  Hans Hofmann,  Willem de Kooning,  Roy Lichtenstein,  Richard Diebenkorn,  Joan Mitchell,  Wayne Thiebaud,  Alex Katz,  Robert Rauschenberg,  Tom Wesselmann,  James Rosenquist,  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson,  Ellsworth Kelly,  Ed Ruscha,  Robert E Indiana,  Kenneth Noland,  Alexander (Sandy) Calder,  Claes Thure Oldenburg,  Josef Albers,  Larry Rivers



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Helen Frankenthaler


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Collage and/or Decoupage
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Gardens, Garden Scenes
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Seascapes, Seasides
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Israel
  • Provincetown, Massachusetts
Art Teacher
  • Hans Hofmann
Art School
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Moore College of Art and Design for Women, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • Fulbright Grant, Fellowship
  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
  • National Medal of Arts
Chronology
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • Anschutz Collection
  • UBS-Paine Webber Collection
Added Description
  • Abstraction Specialty
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Printmaking Specialty
Artist Colony
  • Silvermine Guild, Art Colony
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Kootz Gallery, New York City
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Silvermine Artists Guild
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Museum of Fine Arts Boston
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Special Group
  • Post Painterly Abstraction, 1964, Clement Greenberg

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