Helen Frankenthaler, color field painter, dies

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There was something ethereal about the best of Helen Frankenthaler's work, perhaps because her paintings often seemed to float ecstatically just under the surface on which they were painted. She died today, at the age of 83, after a long and distinguished career and a life lived at the center of the New York social and artistic world. She was one of the best of the second generation of abstract painters in the United States, with a deeply personal vision that reconciled abstraction with the lighter, finer and more poetic emotions. Her work was profoundly untroubled, lyrical and unapologetically beautiful.

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Sudarsan Raghavan, David Nakamura 28 Dec, 2011
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