Helen Frankenthaler was born on December 28, 1928 in Manhattan, New York and died in 2011. She attended the exclusive Brearley School in Manhattan and the Dalton School where her art teacher was Rufino Tamayo. She later went on to study painting at Bennington College under the tutelage of Paul Feeley, an academic cubist and then studied with Hans Hoffman over the summer of 1950.
One of Helen’s greatest influences comes from Jackson Pollock and the way he utilized drip painting. She took the technique of drip painting one step further, using turpentine to create abstract imagery-stain paintings.
In the 1960’s she took paint thinning even further, using acrylics instead of oils, a style that influenced a new generation of painters including Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis.
Helen Frankenthaler was born on December 28, 1928 in Manhattan, New York and died in 2011. She attended the exclusive Brearley School in Manhattan and the Dalton School where her art teacher was Rufino Tamayo. She later went on to study painting at Bennington College under the tutelage of Paul Feeley, an academic cubist and then studied with Hans Hoffman over the summer of 1950. One of Helen’s greatest influences comes from Jackson Pollock and the way he utilized drip painting. She took the technique of drip painting one step further, using turpentine to create abstract imagery-stain paintings. In the 1960’s she took paint thinning even further, using acrylics instead of oils, a style that influenced a new generation of painters including Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis.
Edition: 5 from the limited edition of 24, Year: 1965, Medium: Lithograph in colors Richard de Bas Auvergne à la main paper, Publisher: Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, New York
Edition: 8 from the limited Artist's Proof edition of 10, aside from the edition of 47, Year: 1987, Medium: Lithograph in colors on TGL handmade paper, Publisher: Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mt. Kisco, New York
Edition: 34 from the limited edition of 100, Year: 1965, Medium: Lithograph in colors on wove paper
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