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Helen Frankenthaler was born on December 12, 1928, in New York City. [3] Her father was Alfred Frankenthaler, a New York State Supreme Court judge. [3] Her mother, Martha (Lowenstein), had emigrated with her family from Germany to the United States as an infant. [4]
Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30, 1992) was an American artist who worked primarily in painting and printmaking, and also used pastel and made other works on paper.
Her friends included Jackson Pollock, Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, Willem de Kooning and Elaine de Kooning, Frank O'Hara and Knox Martin. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Hartigan gained her reputation as part of the New York School of artists and painters that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.
Robert Motherwell was born in Aberdeen, Washington on January 24, 1915, the first child of Robert Burns Motherwell II and Margaret Hogan Motherwell. The family later moved to San Francisco, where Motherwell's father served as president of Wells Fargo Bank, but returned to Cohasset Beach, Washington, every summer during his youth.
Sunset Corner is a 1969 acrylic painting by American artist Helen Frankenthaler. [1] The University of Michigan Museum of Art purchased it in 1973. [1]In 2018, it was loaned to the Williams College Museum of Art for an exhibition called "Topographies of Color."
It was, in some ways, a privilege to partake in that mysterious water and belong to the tradition of this dark and artful town where icons like Helen Frankenthaler and Martha Graham made work.
This is a partial list of 20th-century women artists, sorted alphabetically by decade of birth.These artists are known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
Five of the women went on to have international careers, their work collected by major museums and subject to ever-expanding bibliographies: Grace Hartigan, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Elaine de Kooning (who was married to Willem), and [Lee] Krasner—the oldest of them but the last to bloom, coming into her own only after Pollock’s ...