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 ...

Nemerov knows a bit about pedigree. He is a professor, an author, a son of the poet Howard Nemerov and a nephew to photographer Diane Arbus. He nods to Frankenthaler’s privilege on Page 1: “A child of ...

In the summer of 1963, Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell moved their studios into a white-paneled, three-story waterfront property in Provincetown, on the northern tip of the Cape. “It was ...

A visitor looks at Helen Frankenthaler's Off White Square (1973) at a gallery in Southampton, N.Y. Powerful, no? And gorgeous. Helen Frankenthaler did it in 1973 — 20 years after making a painting ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation announced ten new recipients of its ...

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, ...

This cover image released by Penguin Press shows "Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York" by Alexander Nemerov. (Penguin Press via AP) “Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New ...

In October 1955, at a party in New York’s West Village, the art critic Clement Greenberg slapped his then girlfriend, the artist Helen Frankenthaler. He hit her hard enough to make her cry, which ...

I'm a convert. Helen Frankenthaler, coming out of the abstract expressionist hotbed in New York in the early 1950s, always seemed to me to have something "wrong" about the color and form in her famed ...

The nephew of the late Helen Frankenthaler, Frederick Iseman, is suing the artist’s foundation and its directors—who include his cousin Clifford Ross and Frankenthaler’s stepdaughter, Lise ...

Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Expressionist painter, in her studio in May 1960. (Ben Martin / Getty Images) Nemerov knows a bit about pedigree. He is a professor, an author, a son of the poet Howard ...