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Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 12 December 1928
- Died
- 27 December 2011
- Place of birth
- New York City, Manhattan
- Place of death
- Darien
- Sex or gender
- female
- Given name
- Helen
- Family name
- Frankenthaler
- Father
- Alfred Frankenthaler
- Sibling
- Gloria F. Ross
- Movement
- abstract expressionism, Color Field
- Field of work
- abstract art
- Occupation
- printmaker, lithographer, painter, sculptor, draftsperson
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- National Medal of Arts, Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame, honorary doctor of Brandeis University
- artist files at
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Library and Archives, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, Frick Art Research Library, College for Creative Studies Library, National Gallery of Art Library
- copyright representative
- reproduction right represented by CISAC-member, Artists Rights Society
- described by source
- Great Women Masters of Art, Directory of Southern Women Artists, Concise Dictionary of Women Artists, American Women Artists, Past and Present: A Selected Bibliographic Guide
- employer
- Hunter College
- end of work period
- 2011
- has works in the collection
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Auckland Art Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, Tate, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Galleries Scotland, Israel Museum
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, Royal Academy of Arts, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- name in native language
- Helen Frankenthaler
- notable work
- Mountains and Sea
- participant in
- Documenta II
- pseudonym
- Motherwell, Mrs. Robert Burns
- represented by
- Artists Rights Society
- start of work period
- 1945
- student of
- Rufino Tamayo, Paul Feeley, Hans Hofmann
- work location
- New York City, Bennington, Paris, Darien
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