Helen Frankenthaler
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Helen Frankenthaler was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades, she spanned
1978 in her New York City studio photographed by Lynn Gilbert
Mountains and Sea 1952 Oil and charcoal on unsized, unprimed canvas, 86+3⁄8 in × 117+1⁄4 in (219 cm × 298 cm) on extended loan to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Receiving the National Medal of Arts in 2001
Grace Hartigan
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Grace Hartigan was an American abstract expressionist painter and a significant member of the vibrant New York School of the 1950s and 1960s. Her circle of friends, who frequently inspired one another
Hartigan in 1969, photographed by The Evening Sun in Baltimore
Modern Cycle (1967) at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2023