Born in New York City, Frankenthaler attended the prestigious Dalton School and, after completing her studies at Bennington College in Vermont, returned to the city's vibrant art scene. There the artist studied under Hans Hofmann, a leading exponent of European Modernism.
As a second generation Abstract Expressionist, Frankenthaler was strongly influenced by the work of Gorky, Pollack and de Kooning, yet she sought a unique means of personal expression. The breakthrough occurred in 1952, after a summer spent painting watercolors in the Canadian Maritimes. These paintings, abstract landscapes of the Nova Scotia coast, inspired an unconventional merging of the fluid translucency...
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