🎨 American abstract expressionist artist, was 12 December 1928.

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‘Grove, Monoprint IV’, 1991
‘Tales of Genji I’ (detail), 1998
‘Tales of Genji V’ 1998
‘Madam Butterfly’, working proof I, 2000
https://t.co/haf2LFanYB

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Helen Frankenthaler's ‘Spring run’ monoprint series from 1996, was printed onto proofs from ‘Flirting with Stone’ 1990. She was a notorious proofer, always finely tuning matrices, ink methods and colour combinations creating many proofs

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Took myself to the exhibition Such a must see shows so much process via the display of the painstaking proofs the techniques, the layering, the impressions, the colours

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my blog post,
November 09, 2021 - Reblog/Review : How Color-Soaked Canvases Won Over the Art Market, via Justin Kamp at https://t.co/bWAhKuw9RH via

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of Paper is Painting from 2010

"Frankenthaler’s immediately recognisable mature work has played a key role in the revised status and definition of drawing in recent years.”

https://t.co/lNXm8up9h4

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Sadly the Joan Mitchell isn’t at any more. I was very taken with this Helen Frankenthaler though - ‘Europa’, 1957.

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Gary Kelley's October illustration for the RAND Corporation Calendar.

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Happy Birthday to artist born in 1928.

["Madridscape." 1959. Anonymous Gift. BMA 1966.54]

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They said only men could paint powerful pictures, but splashed her way onto the modern art scene. DANCING THROUGH FIELDS OF COLOR from & celebrates this great American artist.

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