Savage Breeze
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Seven-color woodcut on Nepalese laminiated light brown hand-made paper
Dimensions
sheet: 80 x 68.6 cm (31 1/2 x 27 in.) framed: 90.8 x 78.1 cm (35 3/4 x 30 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Andrew W. Mellon Fund and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1975.38.1
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...