Frankenthaler’s Color Field method influenced abstract expressionism

By Grace Glueck / The Bulletin
December 28, 2011

Helen Frankenthaler, the lyrically abstract painter whose technique of staining pigment into raw canvas helped shape an influential art movement in the mid-20th century, and who became one of the most admired artists of her generation, died on Tuesday at her home in Darien, Conn. She was 83.

Her....

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