Helen Frankenthaler

View Monoprint VII, from the Monoprint, Monotype Series (1981) By Frankenthaler Helen; monoprint in colors with hand-coloring in lithographic ink, pastel and Paintstik, on Japanese Suzuki handmade paper; Sheet: 42 ¾ x 33 ½ in. (1086 x 851 mm.); Signed; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

Helen Frankenthaler. Jacob's Ladder. 1957. Oil on canvas. 9' 5 3/8" x 69 7/8" (287.9 x 177.5 cm). Gift of Hyman N. Glickstein. 82.1960. © 2024 Helen Frankenthaler / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Painting and Sculpture

Painter Helen Frankenthaler sitting amidst her art 1956 Photo Gordon Parks

Jacob’s Ladder. 1957

This is part two of two-part post on the works of Helen Frankenthaler. For more works and biographical information, see part one below. This second part includes some of Frankenthaler's prints, a medium she took up relatively late. Painting was Frankenthaler’s primary artistic passion, but an obsession to push her creative limits led her to turn her attention to print media. Frankenthaler created her first prints in 1961 with Tatyana Grosman at Universal Limited Art Editions in West Islip…

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Based in New York City, Helwaser Gallery specializes in Post-war and Contemporary art featuring seminal artists such as Alexander Calder, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, and Yayoi Kusama. In January 2019, the gallery will re-open on the Upper East Side with a contemporary art program, featuring Anton Ginzburg, Boedi Widjaja, Christina Kruse, and Lin Yan. Helwaser Gallery has participated in the following art fairs: The Armory Show, Art Miami, Palm Beach Art Fair, The Salon Art…

She invented staggering new ways to paint, but it was the men who followed her who got all the credit. Now this towering figure is finally getting her due

As a second generation Abstract Expressionist, Frankenthaler was strongly influenced by the work of Gorky, Pollack and de Kooning. Early in her career she developed the stain painting technique, which became a catalyst for a generation of color field painters. Although Frankenthaler's work is abstract, a strong suggestion of landscape is often apparent. Frankenthaler made her first prints in 1960, and she continued to use various print media in her exploration of pictorial space utilizing…