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Frankenthaler

[ frang-kuhn-thaw-ler, -thah- ]

noun

  1. Helen, 1928–2011, U.S. painter.


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Grantmakers such as the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative now explicitly fund climate-focused works, while several prominent art museums have made public commitments to showcase them.

She was part of the group of postwar artists — Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Grace Hartigan and Elaine de Kooning — written about in the book “Ninth Street Women,” which details how abstract expressionism was born in this country and how women were a crucial part of it.

There was also an envelope scribbled with six names in blue ink: “Mitchell, Frankenthaler, Hepworth, Bourgeois, Krasner, Nevelson.”

She deserves credit for making it viable to build on the abstract expressionist legacy rather than endlessly, neurotically knocking it down, the more so because that legacy included brilliant women, Krasner, Mitchell, Grace Hartigan and Helen Frankenthaler among them.

And so the most interesting aspect of the facsimiles is that they trace a development from rather innocuous clouds of billowy, blossomy color reminiscent of Helen Frankenthaler, to something grittier, more fraught and much more engaging.

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