A new lawsuit claims that board members of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation -- dedicated to the work of the latest abstract expressionist -- is using the non-profit to promote self-interests. Getty ...

The nephew of one of America’s greatest female artists is being accused by a member of his own family of turning her foundation into a $10 million “pay-to-display” scheme to get his own “middlebrow” ...

A former federal prosecutor is urging New York Attorney General Letitia James to investigate a foundation set up to protect the legacy of artist Helen Frankenthaler — but which is instead, allegedly, ...

Abstract Expressionism is a storied movement continually re-told at blockbuster museums: We think we know it so well. The story, however, is still wrong. There are no women in it. The most recent show ...

STAMFORD — A painting by famous abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler — a one-time Stamford resident — is now on permanent display at the New Britain Museum of American Art. The 1981 work, titled ...

Helen Frankenthaler's "Mountains and Sea" (1952) (image via bigother.com) A painter best known for her groundbreaking painting “Mountains and Sea” (1952) which influenced a whole generation of ...

A new exhibition in Hong Kong aims to boost the market for Abstract Expressionist female artists in Asia. The show is the inaugural presentation at Art Intelligence Global’s exhibition space in Asia’s ...

In one of art history's least beloved anecdotes, Lee Krasner, the pioneering painter, East Hampton resident and wife of Jackson Pollock, recounted to an interviewer that her teacher, artist Hans ...

NEW YORK — Helen Frankenthaler, an abstract painter known for her bold, lyrical use of color who led a postwar art movement that would later be termed Color Field painting, died Tuesday at her home in ...

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