Frankenthaler

[frang-kuhn-thaw-ler, -thah-]

noun

1. Helen, 1928–2011, U.S. painter.

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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She was part of the group of postwar artists — Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan and Elaine de Kooning — written about in the book “Ninth Street Women,” which details how abstract expressionism was born in this country and how women were a crucial part of it.

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There was also an envelope scribbled with six names in blue ink: “Mitchell, Frankenthaler, Hepworth, Bourgeois, Krasner, Nevelson.”

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She deserves credit for making it viable to build on the abstract expressionist legacy rather than endlessly, neurotically knocking it down, the more so because that legacy included brilliant women, Krasner, Mitchell, Grace Hartigan and Helen Frankenthaler among them.

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