Walking into the Nasher’s latest exhibition is like walking into a printmaking studio in the throes of production. In the foyer, you’re immediately met with three large black-and-white vinyl photos of ...

Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) and Jo Sandman (b. 1931) reveal new modes of conceptualizing art in the 1960s and printmaking’s role in that revolution. Born three years apart, Helen Frankenthaler ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. An interview of Helen Frankenthaler conducted 1968, by Barbara Rose, for the Archives of American Art. Frankenthaler speaks of studying art at ...

Helen Frankenthaler didn’t like being called a female artist, but as one of the only women to make a mark in the boys’ club of abstract expressionism, she found it hard to avoid the label. “For me, ...

Helen Frankenthaler is best known for her soak-stain paintings—raw canvases saturated with washes of paint that helped birth the color-field movement. But a cache of late paintings and works on paper ...

There is a certain fearlessness to Helen Frankenthaler. It is evident both in her work and in the way she forged a remarkable career through the male-dominated art world of the 1950s. As a young ...

The Museum of Modern Art announces an installation, Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep, from November 18, 2025 - February 8, 2026. Describing her painting Chairman of the Board (1971), Helen ...

NEW YORK — Helen Frankenthaler, an abstract painter known for her bold, lyrical use of color who led a postwar art movement that would later be termed Color Field painting, died Tuesday at her home in ...

The Georgia Museum of Art, at the University of Georgia, has received a large donation from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, a program dedicated to enriching visual arts and art history education.