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Helen Frankenthaler Biography
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1928 |
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Born in New York, NY
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1945 |
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Graduated from The Dalton School, New York, NY
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1946 |
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Art Students League, New York, NY
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1945 - 1949 |
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BA Bennington College, Bennington, VT
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Lives and works in Darien, CT
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008
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Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
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2007
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Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT (solo)
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2005 - 2006
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National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia (solo)
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2003
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Museum of Contemporary, North Miami, FL (solo)
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2002
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Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (solo)
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1999
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Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, NY (solo)
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1998
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (solo)
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA (solo)
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1993
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (solo)
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1989
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The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (solo)
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1985
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (solo)
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1981
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Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (solo)
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1975
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Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (solo)
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1969
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
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1964
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Post-Painterly Abstraction, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
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1961
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American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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1960
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The Jewish Museum, New York, NY (solo)
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1958
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Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Painting and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth-Century American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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1957
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Artists of the New York School Second Generation, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
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1951
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9th Street: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 60th East 9th Street, New York, NY
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1950
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Fifteen Unknowns Selected by Artists of the Kootz Gallery, Kootz Gallery, New York, NY
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
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Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
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| Links to further information |
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