Helen Frankenthaler

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Helen Frankenthaler

• By
• Jennifer Giles

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Facts about Helen Frankenthaler

• She was born in New York in 1928
• She would go on trips with her family to Europe.
• She went to Dolton school to study with Ruffino
  Tamayo
• Then to Bennington college to do cubism with Paul
  Feeley

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A quote from Helen Frankenthaler

• When a picture needs blank canvas to breathe a
  certain way, leave it.

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Interesting facts

• She uses large canvases to paint on.
• She she staples them to the floor while painting
• She uses sponges to spread paint
• Then waits for it to dry

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Some of Helen Frankenthalers paintings
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References

• Discovering Art History-Gerald F. Brommer