Helen Frankenthaler knust.com/guggenhein/alt/05/english/ausstellung/index.html Abstract Expressionist Painter, Born 1928

The American painter Helen Frankenthaler is a second-generation abstract expressionist widely considered "the country's most prominent living female artist." A New York City native, Frankenthaler was graduated from the Dalton School, where she studied with the Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo. After earning her B.A. degree at Bennington College in Vermont, she moved back to New York. In 1950 Frankenthaler encountered the influential art critic Clement Greenberg, through whom she met the major figures in New York's avant-garde art world.

HELEN FRANKENTHA LER b Viewpoint II, 1979 Acrylic on canvas, 81 1/4 X 94 1/2" ( X cm.) Signed, lower right Gift of Paul and Suzanne Donnelly Jenkins, rart.com/pc_bo ok/pages/helen _frankenthaler_ b.htm rart.com/pc_bo ok/pages/helen _frankenthaler_ b.htm

The use of unprimed canvas and the artist's union of figure and ground were triggered by an encounter with Jackson Pollock's black-and-white paintings at an exhibition at the Betty Parsons Gallery, New York in Pollock's rejection of the conventional brush and easel encouraged Frankenthaler's more liberated approach to the canvas. knust.com/guggenhein/alt/05/english/ausstellung/index.htmlhttp:// knust.com/guggenhein/alt/05/english/ausstellung/index.html

Helen Frankenthaler American, born 1928 Untitled (study for Postcard for James Schuyler), 1962 Drawing in acrylic, oils, and crayon over a lithograph, on cream paper 19 7/8 x 25 3/4 in. (50.7 x 65.4 cm) Gift of Mrs. George R. Rowland, Sr.,

The work of Jackson Pollock proved the decisive catalyst to the development of her style. Immediately appreciating the potential, not fully developed by Pollock, of pouring paint directly onto raw unprimed canvas, she thinned her paint with turpentine to allow the diluted color to penetrate quickly into the fabric, rather than build up on the surface. This revolutionary soak-stain approach not only permitted the spontaneous generation of complex forms but also made any separation of figure from background impossible since the two became virtually fused a technique that was an important influence on the work of other painters, particularly Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland.Jackson Pollock

Mountains and Sea 1952 Oil on canvas 7' 2 5/8" x 9' 9 1/4" National Gallery of Art, Washington

By pouring thinned-down paint directly onto bare canvas that absorbed the pigment into its fibers, the artist created breathing landscapes of transparent planes of color washes. Frankenthaler, who insists she is not an Action painter, makes the fluidity of the paint as it seeps into and through the canvas – not the gesture of the painter, as in Pollock's drips – primary to the animation of her work. knust.com/guggenhein/alt/05/english/ausstellung/index.html

Seeing the Moon on a Hot Summer Day 1987 Acrylic on canvas 8' 7 3/8" x 5' 4 1/4" Private collection e/ftpoc/frankenthaler_ext.html e/ftpoc/frankenthaler_ext.html

For many years Frankenthaler executed stained canvases that seem nonrepresentational, but which are actually based on real or imaginary landscapes. During the summers, she worked in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and in the mid-1970s she bought a second home and studio in Connecticut. In addition to her two-dimensional work, Frankenthaler produced welded steel sculptures; she has also explored ceramics, prints, and illustrated books, and in 1985 she designed the sets and costumes for a production by England's Royal Ballet. She has taught at New York University, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale and has had numerous one-woman exhibitions of her work, including important retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1969 and New York's Museum of Modern Art in Frankenthaler has won many awards and has been the subject of a documentary film.

Helen Frankenthaler Captain's Watch, 1986 acrylic on canvas 76 3/4 x 58 3/4 in d.org/art/exhibition s/patton/frankenth aler.html

Helen Frankenthaler La Sardana Lithograph and etching in 5 colors x 25-3/8 inches Edition of 60; Signed and numbered. $ m/cgi-bin/fine- art/gallery.html?categor y=frankenthaler&item= art00503&type=gallery

Helen Frankenthaler Ramblas Lithograph and etching x 26 inches Edition of 75. Signed and numbered $ com/cgi-bin/fine- art/gallery.html?cate gory=frankenthaler& item=art00082&type =gallery