Helen Frankenthaler’s canvases bare only the sheerest layers of color and paint. Yet with these works the artist straddled two of the most important artistic movements of the 20 th century. She first ...

The artist, who died in 2011, was renowned for her early work from the 1950s but a new exhibition makes the case that she continued innovating all her life Despite the fact that almost six decades ...

Helen Frankenthaler, who died today at 83 after a long illness, provided a bridge between Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting, with her lyric and gestural brushwork, bold color shapes and ...

It is hard to find artists who put color above all else. So many other things can preoccupy their creativity and get in the way. But there was a time when color reigned supreme. Color Field artists ...