Helen Frankenthaler
Birthday: 1928-12-12
Place of Birth: Manhattan, New York, USA
Biography: Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. By the time of her death, she had exhibited her work for over six decades.
Movies
Frankenthaler: Toward a New Climate
A 30-minute film about Helen Frankenthaler, who invented the stained canvas at the age of 24 and inf...
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American Art in the 1960s
During this critical decade in American life, artists built on the styles of the 1950s. An explosion...
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Who Gets to Call It Art?
Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York....
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Painters Painting
Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940-1970 is a 1972 documentary directed by Emile de Anton...
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