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Frankenthaler

American  
[frang-kuhn-thaw-ler, -thah-] / ˈfræŋ kənˌθɔ lər, -ˌθɑ- /

noun

  1. Helen, 1928–2011, U.S. painter.


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His pedagogy had helped launch the careers of Robert Rauschenberg, Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler.

From The Wall Street Journal May 23, 2026

This show examines how her output responded to and influenced her teachers and contemporaries by juxtaposing her art with works by Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell, Isamu Noguchi, Peter Voulkos and others.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 26, 2025

Grantmakers such as the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative now explicitly fund climate-focused works, while several prominent art museums have made public commitments to showcase them.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2024

He was perhaps the only contemporary artist who could claim to be a peer of Willem de Kooning and Helen Frankenthaler as well as a friend of Alberto Giacometti, Max Ernst and Mark Rothko.

From Washington Post Oct. 27, 2022

Describing her as Dan Flavin meets Helen Frankenthaler, the art collector David Gersh — who with his wife, Susan, owns one of Weatherford’s pieces — said the artist has “developed her own vocabulary.”

From New York Times Apr. 20, 2022

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