Freefall
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pressed TGL hand-made paper pulp, acrylic gel, and acrylic paint
Dimensions
sheet: 177.8 x 147.3 cm (70 x 58 in.) framed: 209.6 x 163.8 cm (82 1/2 x 64 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Helen Frankenthaler
Accession Number
1993.19.1
About the Artist
Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) was born in New York City into a cultivated family; her father was a justice of the New York Supreme Court. She studied painting at the Dalton School under the Mexican muralist Rufino Tamayo and went on to Bennington College in Vermont, graduating in 1949. Returning to New York, she entered the circle of the Abstract Expressionist painters and studied with Hans Hofm...