Untitled
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View on museum website →Medium
acrylic on paper
Dimensions
sight size: 58.1 x 79.5 cm (22 7/8 x 31 5/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Helen Frankenthaler, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1990.102.1
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...