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HELEN FRANKENTHALER Sun Corner.
Color screenprint on Core-filled, baked aluminum panel, 1968. 914x914 mm; 36x36 inches, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 14/50 lower right recto. Printed by Maurel Studios, New York. Published by Tanglewood Press, New York.
Helen Frankenthaler (born 1928) is the most prolific printmaker--male or female--of the New York School artists of the 1940s/1950s. She has made more the 225 separate prints since her first published lithograph in 1961. After studying at Bennington College in Vermont in the late 1940s, she attended graduate school for art history at Columbia University and became more interested in painting, ultimately renting a studio in lower Manhattan. In 1950, she met the art critic Clement Greenberg and through him was introduced to Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Lee Krasner. She became a frequent visitor to the Cedar Tavern and friends there with Grace Hartigan, Larry Rivers and Alfred Leslie (Hartigan and Rivers urged her to make her first lithograph, at ULAE in West Islip, where they had already produced lithographs themselves). From 1958 to 1971, Frankenthaler was married to Robert Motherwell.
This color screenprint, representative of Frankenthaler's bold, colorful style, was produced for a portfolio to support a traveling exhibition organized by the Education Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Harrison 12.
