Helen Frankenthaler Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s until 2011), she spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work. Frankenthaler began exhibiting her large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in contemporary museums and galleries in the early 1950s. She was included in the 1964 Post-Painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg that introduced a newer generation of abstract painting that came to be known as Color Field. Born in Manhattan, she was influenced by Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock's paintings and by Clement Greenberg. Her work has been the subject of several retrospective exhibitions, including a 1989 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and been exhibited worldwide since the 1950s. In 2001, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.Frankenthaler had a home and studio in Darien, Connecticut.
Upon her death, her remains was interred at Bennington College in Vermont.
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She was appointed an Honorary Academician of the Royal Academy of the Arts in London, England in 2011. From 1985 to 1992, she was a member of the National Council on the Arts.
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She graduated from Dalton School, attended the Brearley School, and the Horace Mann School. She graduated with a Bachelor's Degree from Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont in 1949. She was a member of the Bennington College's Board of Trustees from 1967 to 1982. She was a recipient of 26 honorary degrees.
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She was the third daughter of New York State Supreme Court Judge Alfred Frankenthaler and Martha Lowenstein Frankenthaler. Her sisters, Marjorie Frankenthaler Iseman and Glora Frankenthaler Ross Bookman predeceased her.
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She is survived by her husband, Stephen M. DuBrul Jr.; her nieces, Ellen Iseman and Beverly Ross; four nephews, Peter Iseman, Fred Iseman, Alfred Ross, and Clifford Ross; two stepdaughters, Lisa Motherwell and Jeannie Motherwell from her first marriage to artist, Robert Motherwell; two stepchildren from her second marriage, Jennifer DuBrul and Nicholas DuBrul; three grand-nephews; two grand-nieces; four step-granddaughters; two step-grandsons; and one step great granddaughter.
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She was awarded the American National Medal of Arts in 2001 from the National Endowment of the Arts.
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