#Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler Jacob’s Ladder 1957 Oil on canvas 9’ 5-3/8" x 69-7/8" (287.9 x 177.5 cm)

Helen Frankenthaler Untitled 1994 Acrylic on paper

Helen Frankenthaler Chairman of the Board 1971 Acrylic and felt-tip pen on canvas 6’ 10-1/16" x 16’ 2-5/16" (208.4 x 493.6 cm)

Helen Frankenthaler American abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler in her New York studio, c. 1957.

13K views · 658 reactions | Featuring more than fifty works spanning six decades, Helen Frankenthaler’s major retrospective at Kunstmuseum B

Helen Frankenthaler:”April Mood” (1974)

Helen Frankenthaler Joslyn Art Museum Omaha, NE

Portrait of Helen Frankenthaler in her studio, 1956.

Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler (N. American, 1928 - 2011) Alassio - 1990 On exhibition display @ The Moment and the Distance April 30–July 2, 2026 New York, USA © 2026 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Photo: Rob McKeever

Helen Frankenthaler:The Moment and the Distance Helen Frankenthaler:The Moment and the Distance

Helen Frankenthaler’s Late Works Today we’re highlighting images collected in Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1988-2009 published in 2022 by Santa Fe’s Radius Books . The book developed alongside a traveling exhibit of Frankenthaler’s later work organized by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation , and features writing by Elizabeth Smith , Suzanne Boorsch , and Douglas Dreishpoon , the director and editor of the ongoing Frankenthaler Catalogue Raisonné . Our copy comes to us as a gift of Radius Books. Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) was a major post-war abstract expressionist painter. She developed the soak-stain technique and was known for her large-scale paintings, and work that seemed spontaneous and whole – regardless of process. In a lecture at the Palm Springs Art Museum in 1996, Frankenthaler details this process: I seem to have consistently been involved in two approaches to my work. One is an immediate gesture in which my wrist seems to know exactly where to go, where to place what, when, in which color, when to stop. It is an economical vocabulary, a shorthand. The other is far more labored, worked-into…. In either case, any beautiful picture to me looks as if it’s been born at once, regardless of how many hours, or weeks, or years it took to make it. Frankenthaler remained dynamic in her work over six decades. She continued to develop mastery of forms. As Boorsch explains in an essay on Frankenthaler’s prints, her late works “surpass” the output of her previous three decades “in size, in complexity, in audacious innovation, and in powerful effect.” –Amanda , Special Collections Graduate Intern See more posts about spectacular work from Radius Books !

Helen Frankenthaler (N. American, 1928 - 2011) Yin Yang - 1990 On exhibition display @ The Moment and the Distance April 30–July 2, 2026 New York, USA © 2026 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Photo: Dan Bradica

Helen Frankenthaler, Divertimento, working proof 4 , 1983

Tipp: Helen Frankenthaler im Kunstmuseum Basel 18.04.–23.08.2026 Kunstmuseum Basel/ Schweiz Helen Frankenthaler Mehr als fünfzig Werke aus sechs Jahrzehnten geben in der Sonderausstellung Helen Frankenthaler im Kunstmuseum Basel einen eindrucksvollen Einblick in das Schaffen einer der wichtigsten Künstlerinnen der US-amerikanischen Abstraktion. Frankenthalers farbintensive, meist grossformatige Gemälde lassen die Ausstellungsräume… Tipp: Helen Frankenthaler im Kunstmuseum Basel

Helen Frankenthaler, Cape Orange, 1964 Acrylic on canvas, 306.4 x 185.1 cm.

Helen Frankenthaler - Alchemy (1964)

HELEN FRANKENTHALER The Moment and the Distance April 30–July 2, 2026 Gagosian West 21st Street, New York