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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...

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