Summer'59 Number 1
Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011)
Born in Manhattan, New York, Frankenthaler became the leader of the Color Field painters in New York City, emerging in the 1950s under the influence of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Her work is a transition from Abstract Expressionism.
She was educated at New York’s Dalton School, and in high school studied with Rufino Tamayo and later with Hans Hofmann. She attended Bennington College. Her family vacationed in Maine where she learned to love open views of land and sea, subject matter and an attitude of expansiveness reflected in her canvases.
With a studio in New York, her mentor became art critic Clement Greenberg who introduced her to most of the prominent 1950s artists including Pollock and DeKooning, her inspirations for gestural technique, Action Painting. From 1958 to 1971, she was married to artist Robert Motherwell.
Her technique was novel. Rather than painting on a primed canvas, she poured paint over an unprimed surface that allowed the paint to soak into the canvas. This staining and the process involved became her trademark style, and a whole generation of artists, known as Color Field painters, followed her.
Post War Inventory
- Karel Appel Personnages et Oiseaux II
- Karel Appel Personage and Landscape
- Karel Appel Birds over the Village
- Richard Artschwagger Untitled (Levi's Painting), 1981
- Ruth Lanier Asawa Untitled
- Ruth Asawa Untitled
- Pablo Atchugarry Untitled
- Bernard Aubertin Tableau Clous
- Milton Avery Vincent Spano
- Milton Avery Blue Nude
- Afro Basaldella Untitled
- William Baziotes Figures Against the Sun
- William Baziotes Untitled
- Leon Berkowitz Algonquit No 15
- Norman Bluhm Untitled (Blue and Black)
- Norman Bluhm Untitled (Purple and Black)
- Norman Bluhm Untitled (Red and Black)
- Norman Bluhm Untitled (blue and Black)
- Norman Bluhm Untitled (Pink and Black)
- Norman Bluhm Untitled, 1
- Norman Bluhm Untitled
- Norman Bluhm Fifth Season
- Norman Bluhm In tThe Earth
- Norman Bluhm Ash Hollow
- Norman Bluhm Steel Grass
- Norman Bluhm Untitled
- Norman Bluhm Coelus II
- Norman Bluhm Turkish Delight
- Mel Bochner Chuckle
- James Brooks Zog
- James Brooks Untitled
- Alexander Calder Construction with Stripes
- Alexander Calder Black Compass
- Alexander Calder Boomerang Night
- Alexander Calder Untitled
- Alexander Calder Narning Needles and Rattler
- Alexander Calder Butterfly and Serpent
- Alexander Calder Ciel d'Egypt, 1975
- Massimo Campigli Untitled
- Nicholas Carone Untitled
- Giorgio Cavallon Untitled
- ED Clark Moroccan Series
- Allan D'Arcangelo Proposition #8
- Allan D'Arcangelo Landscape
- Gene Davis Pinocchio
- Gene Davis Untitled
- Willem DeKooning Untitled ( Woman)
- Willem DeKooning Untitled
- Jim Dine A Crescent Wrench
- Jim Dine Heart in a Landscape
- Friedel Dzubas Night Flight
- Friedel Dzubas Sungod
- Friedel Dzubas Aurora
- Friedel Dzubas Up Delta
- Friedel Dzubas Roundabout
- Mark Flood Decorations on Her Body
- Sam Francis Untitled (SFP94-80),
- Sam Francis Untitled (SF62-0200
- Sam Francis Untitled (SF92-9), 1993
- Sam Francis Untitled - SF90-171,
- Sam Francis Untitled - SF89-112
- Sam Francis Untitled (Tokyo Series)
- Helen Frankenthaler Untitled (Purple and Black)
- Helen Frankenthaler Hope Spring
- Michael Goldberg Untitled
- Michael Goldberg Still Life with Tiffany Lamp
- Michael Goldberg Untitled
- Michael Goldberg Our Delight
- Ron Gorchov Capital
- John Grillo Untitled
- Peter Halley Untitled
- Al Held Primo 6
- Damien Hirst Crushung Pain
- Hans Hofmann Serenity
- Hans Hofmann Red Triangle
- Hans Hofmann On The Pier
- Hans Hofmann Untitled
- Hans Hofmann Zig Zag
- Paul Jenkins Phenomena Hokusai Fall
- Paul Jenkins Phenomena Ultra Scape
- Ellsworth Kelly Colored Paper Image XII (Blue Curve with Brown and Gray),
- Yayoi Kusama Chikuma River
- Alfred Leslie Number 5
- Roy Lichtenstein Reflections on Minerva
- Pat Lipsky Chinese
- Conrad Marca-Relli The Dressmaker
- Conrad Marca-Relli Untitled #4
- Conrad Marca-Relli Battle Detail
- Conrad Marca-Relli F-S-8-67
- Conrad Marca-Relli L-3-72
- Georges Mathieu Lothaire Sort Secretment De Leon
- Robert Motherwell In Blue Ochre with Gauloises
- Robert Motherwell Untitled
- Robert Motherwell Little A
- Robert Motherwell Summer Collage
- Robert Motherwell Sea Lion with Red Stripe
- Louise Nevelson Untitled (Moon Plant),
- Louise Nevelson Series of Unknown Cosmos XXXIX
- Louise Nevelson Untitled, 1974
- Gaston Novelli A.5
- Claes Oldenburg Punching Bag
- Jules Olitski Fi
- Jules Olitski Salacion Touch-3
- Abraham Palatnik Untitled
- Richard Pettibone Harran III
- Arnoldo Pomodoro Pillars in Amaliehaven
- Larry Poons Untitled #1
- Richard Pousette-Dart Small Dark Room
- Richard Pousette-Dart Serpentine Saffron
- Milton Resnick Untitled
- Larry Rivvers Iron Maiden (Ford Fender)
- James Rosenquist Blue Light Bulb Beer Can 1/2 Eye Glass Lens
- Mimmo Rotella Ars-Gratis-Artis
- Julian Schnabel La Hija Pequeña, la Madrastra y el Amigo Mariquita, (The Little Daughter, The Stepmother and the Friend Ladybug
- Sean Scully 9.1.96
- Turi Simeti Un Ovale Rosso
- Theodoros Stamos Field I
- Theodoros Stamos Infinity Field, Lefkada Series
- Theodoros Stamos Lefkada Series
- Theodoros Stamos Mistra
- Theodoros Stamos Untitled (From the High Snow, Low Sun Series)
- Theodoros Stamos Aegean Sunbox # 12
- Theodoros Stamos Classic Yellow Sun-Box
- Frank Stella The Honor and Glory of Whaling (Maquette)
- Frank Stella Nowe Miastro
- Donald Sultan Peppers
- Bob Thompson The Struggle
- Julius Tobias Untitled
- Esteban Vicente Luminous
- Andy Warhol Ali Fist
- Andy Warhol Flowers
- Andy Warhol Cup of Coffee
- Tom Wesselmann Maquette for Tulip and Smoking Cigarette, 1983
- Tom Wesselmann Monica Asleep on Blanket
- Michael (Corinne) West Green Apple
- Michael (Corinne) West Nihilism
- Michael (Corinne) West Study
- Michael (Corinne) West The Atonement
- MIchael West Untitled
- Michael West Still Life Objects
- Michael West Theorem Duty
- MIchael West Continuity of Change
- MIchael West Dagger of Light