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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. An interview of Helen Frankenthaler conducted 1968, by Barbara Rose, for the Archives of American Art. Frankenthaler speaks of studying art at ...

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 ...

The beauty of Provincetown, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, inspired many works by one of the most renowned American artists of the 20th century: Helen Frankenthaler. But though you may notice shimmering ...

Helen Frankenthaler‘s soak-stained canvases were a turning point in the history of art. Vibrant and flowing, suggestive yet ambiguous — these paintings were instrumental in her shift from Abstract ...

Its large scale, and gestural splashes of colour are supremely painterly, and yet this is not a painting but a print, its free flowing, spontaneous-looking marks the result of multiple, effortful ...

Helen sat on the steps of the Prado, smoking a cigarette in the blazing heat of midafternoon while the museum was closed for siesta. By then she had been in the darkened galleries for five hours, ...

Helen Frankenthaler didn’t like being called a female artist, but as one of the only women to make a mark in the boys’ club of abstract expressionism, she found it hard to avoid the label. “For me, ...

It’s been a lovely summer for fans of Helen Frankenthaler. Since May, the American artist’s work has been seen in Venice (at the Biennale) and in Rome (at the Gagosian), with another show, Abstract ...

American abstract expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler photographed in her New York City studio in 1971. (Photo by Jack Mitchell/Getty Images) Jack Mitchell/Getty Images Helen Frankenthaler was ...

Helen Frankenthaler, "Mountains and Sea" (1952) (© 2020 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York; image courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC) The cover ...