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 ...

I'm a convert. Helen Frankenthaler, coming out of the abstract expressionist hotbed in New York in the early 1950s, always seemed to me to have something "wrong" about the color and form in her famed ...

Berggruen Gallery is proud to present Helen Frankenthaler: Paintings, an exhibition of paintings from 1953-1978 by one of the preeminent artists of her time, Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011). This ...

So my friends, on this day of incessant 100° heat in LA, let's talk about something cool, very cool. Of course, I'm talking about cool art –– about two major exhibitions: Helen Frankenthaler at ...

Helen Frankenthaler, a New York artist whose bursts of color achieved by pouring thinned paint onto canvas from coffee cans helped point art in fresh directions after the initial post-World War II ...

She was only 23 when she created "Mountains and Sea," building on Jackson Pollock's technique by poured highly thinned oil paint from coffee cans directly onto the raw canvas. Louis later said ...

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

Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011), born in New York City, was an American abstract expressionist painter known for her pioneering use of the "soak-stain" technique, which involved pouring thinned paint ...