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Helen Frankenthaler | |||
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1928 in New York, NY Died 2011 in Darien, CT |
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| Coral Wedge, 1972 | ||||
| acrylic
paint on canvas 81 1/2 x 46 1/2 inches Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection Gift of the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 1995.32 |
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| Frankenthaler was one of
the first artists after Jackson Pollock to explore the collapse of foreground
and background through the color staining of raw canvas. She placed unstretched,
unprimed canvases on the ground and poured washes of thinned paint directly
onto them. Her soak-stain method inspired Morris Louis, among others. In
her later works, such as this one, she rolled and dripped acrylic paint
onto canvas. |
