Helen Frankenthaler, “Canal” (1963), acrylic on canvas, 208.3 x 146.1 cm (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; purchased with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, in ...
From the end of World War II through the 1970s, American culture hit one of those golden ages that dot the history of humanity every hundred years or so. The country’s wealth led to a renaissance in ...
We're doing a color week this week, and we are meeting different artists each day and talking about color. Yesterday we talked about sunflowers and Alette Straathof, and today is Helen Frankenthaler, ...
Helen Frankenthaler, Open Wall, 1953; Oil on canvas, 136.5 × 332.7 cm. © 2024 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Here ...
This first full-scale examination of the Color Field Movement—which emerged in the U.S. in the 1950s—features approximately 40 paintings by such major figures as Gene Davis, Helen Frankenthaler, ...