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 ...

Walking into the Nasher’s latest exhibition is like walking into a printmaking studio in the throes of production. In the foyer, you’re immediately met with three large black-and-white vinyl photos of ...

Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) and Jo Sandman (b. 1931) reveal new modes of conceptualizing art in the 1960s and printmaking’s role in that revolution. Born three years apart, Helen Frankenthaler ...

Are you familiar with Jackson Pollock’s drip paintings? Probably. How about Helen Frankenthaler’s poured paintings? Possibly - but it’s less likely. If not, though, you’re in for a treat.

This cover image released by Penguin Press shows "Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York" by Alexander Nemerov. (Penguin Press via AP) “Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New ...

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 ...

Helen Frankenthaler is best known for her soak-stain paintings—raw canvases saturated with washes of paint that helped birth the color-field movement. But a cache of late paintings and works on paper ...

Frankenthaler often used the word “beautiful” to describe her works. And, often, they are, but in a hard-won way that belies critics who saw the attractiveness of her paintings as a kind of softness.

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art was recently selected as one of ten academic art museums to receive a selection of prints by the artist Helen Frankenthaler in the inaugural year of the Frankenthaler ...