On a warm Autumn evening, with the sun already setting and the moon beaming over the rusticated stone of Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, I walked through the fittingly elegant exhibition “Helen ...

The beauty of Provincetown, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, inspired many works by one of the most renowned American artists of the 20th century: Helen Frankenthaler. But though you may notice shimmering ...

Helen Frankenthaler, Abstract Expressionist painter, in her studio in May 1960. (Ben Martin / Getty Images) Nemerov knows a bit about pedigree. He is a professor, an author, a son of the poet Howard ...

This cover image released by Penguin Press shows "Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York" by Alexander Nemerov. (Penguin Press via AP) “Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New ...

A visitor looks at Helen Frankenthaler's Off White Square (1973) at a gallery in Southampton, N.Y. Powerful, no? And gorgeous. Helen Frankenthaler did it in 1973 — 20 years after making a painting ...

For a long time -- probably too long -- not enough people have thought about the far-reaching accomplishments of Helen Frankenthaler, foremost inventor in the 1950s of what is variously called ...

Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) and Jo Sandman (b. 1931) reveal new modes of conceptualizing art in the 1960s and printmaking’s role in that revolution. Born three years apart, Helen Frankenthaler ...

Helen Frankenthaler, “Flood” (1967), acrylic on canvas, 124 1/4 x 140 1/2 in. (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Purchase with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art ...

Walking into the Nasher’s latest exhibition is like walking into a printmaking studio in the throes of production. In the foyer, you’re immediately met with three large black-and-white vinyl photos of ...

Nemerov knows a bit about pedigree. He is a professor, an author, a son of the poet Howard Nemerov and a nephew to photographer Diane Arbus. He nods to Frankenthaler’s privilege on Page 1: “A child of ...