Reflections IX
1995
Lithograph on paper
20 x 15"

Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) was born in Manhattan, and died in Darien, Connecticut. She was an American abstract expressionist painter, and a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades (early 1950s until 2011), she spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever‑changing new work. She was an early pioneer of the technique of pouring intentionally diluted paint onto her canvases to soak in rather than build up, staining rather than coating, becoming at once both color and form. Frankenthaler began exhibiting her large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in contemporary museums and galleries in the early 1950s.