#helen frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler, Line into Color, Color into Line at Gagosian Beverly Hills

terminusantequem:

Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011), Rabat, 1970. Acrylic on canvas, 221 x 208 cm

Helen Frankenthaler, Blue Bellows, 1976,

Acrylic on Canvas. 292,7 x 238,8 cm. 

Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York © 2022 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 

Photography credit: Rob McKeever, Courtesy Gagosian

Shippan Pt.: July, II ,  Helen Frankenthaler (1980)

Snow Pines, Helen Frankenthaler (2004)

Untitled, Helen Frankenthaler (1980)

• Helen Frankenthaler (1969) Ernst Haas 
• Lines, Planes, Depth III (1913-23) František Kupka
• Yaya Deng by Renee Carey for Yen 

Helen Frankenthaler, Canal,1963, oil on canvas

Helen Frankenthaler
BROOME STREET AT NIGHT (HARRISON 122) (1987)
aquatint and etching printed in colors, signed, dated and numbered 58/68 in pencil (total edition includes 14 artist’s proofs), on White Magnani paper

Helen Frankenthaler, tales of genji iv, 1998

somedevil:

Helen Frankenthaler, Radius, 1993

“There are no rules, that is one thing I say about every medium, every picture … that is how art is born, that is how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules, that is what invention is about.”

Happy Birthday to Helen Frankenthaler, born on this day in 1928!

To create “Painted on 21st Street,” (1950-51), Frankenthaler used oil paint, sand, plaster of Paris, and coffee grounds. This is one of her early works, which reflects her looking at Abstract Expressionist painters such as Jackson Pollock, who often included non-art materials – cigarette butts or enamel house paints, for example, in Pollock’s case – in their work. It is not typical of the artist’s most recognized technique of pouring paint on unprimed canvas, which led to her being associated with Color Field artists. See this piece on view in Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection.

FROM THE #ARCHIVE:

In 1950, #Kootz Gallery invites three of their represented #artists,#AdolphGottliebamong them, to select three works each by then-unknown artists for the #exhibition, “Fifteen Unknowns: Selected by Artists of the Kootz Gallery.”

Adolph Gottlieb’s inclusion of the artist #HelenFrankenthaler jumpstarted what would become quite an illustrious and distinguished career for this artist.
@helenfrankenthalerfoundation

Reproduced here:

Left: 
An invitation for “Fifteen Unknowns: Selected by Artists of the Kootz Gallery,” 1950.

Right:
Helen Frankenthaler
“Beach,” 1950
Oil, sand, plaster of Paris and coffee grounds on sized, primed canvas
34 ¼ x 32 inches (86.9 x 81.3 cm)
Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York
© 2018 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS)
New York Photograph by Rob McKeever, courtesy Gagosian Gallery

Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011), Mediterranean Thoughts, 1960. Oil on sized, primed canvas, 256.5 × 237.5 cm

immafuster:

Helen Frankenthaler - Granada, 1953
oil on canvas

Helen Frankenthaler

jamesusilljournal:

Before the Caves, Helen Frankenthaler, 1958

Helen Frankenthaler

Tales of Genji IV, 1998, twenty-one-color woodcut from twelve woodblocks and one stencil on handmade paper, 47 × 42 inches (119.4 × 106.7 cm)