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Helen Frankenthaler

1928 - 2011

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Helen Frankenthaler (December 12, 1928 – December 27, 2011) was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was 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. Frankenthaler began exhibiting her large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in contemporary museums and galleries in the early 1950s. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Helen Frankenthaler is the 604th most popular painter (up from 876th in 2019), the 2,313th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,855th in 2019) and the 18th most popular American Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Helen Frankenthaler ranks 604 out of 2,023. Before her are Jan van Kessel the Elder, Pierre Auguste Cot, Roelant Savery, Joseph Wright of Derby, Eugène Carrière, and Pierre-Paul Prud'hon. After her are Juan de Flandes, Oswald Achenbach, Paula Rego, Cornelis van Haarlem, Vlaho Bukovac, and Karl von Piloty.

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Among people born in 1928, Helen Frankenthaler ranks 126. Before her are Federico Bahamontes, Fumihiko Maki, Gordie Howe, James Earl Ray, Juan María Bordaberry, and Djivan Gasparyan. After her are Hayden White, James Randi, Al Lettieri, Desmond Morris, Sol LeWitt, and Edward Albee. Among people deceased in 2011, Helen Frankenthaler ranks 86. Before her are Jimmy Savile, Jesús María Pereda, Richard Winters, Daniel Bell, Juan María Bordaberry, and Walter Bonatti. After her are Princess Antoinette, Baroness of Massy, Ján Popluhár, Sergei Bagapsh, Warren Christopher, Harold Garfinkel, and Pinetop Perkins.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Helen Frankenthaler ranks 2,313 out of 20,380. Before her are Hank Williams Jr. (1949), Chris Mullin (1963), Phil Jackson (1945), Arthur Blake (1872), Raoul Walsh (1887), and Craig T. Nelson (1944). After her are Richard Avedon (1923), Peter Cooper (1791), Bridget Fonda (1964), Armand Assante (1949), Liv Tyler (1977), and Richard Jordan Gatling (1818).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Helen Frankenthaler ranks 18. Before her are Lyonel Feininger (1871), Richard Serra (1939), Grant Wood (1891), John La Farge (1835), Frank Stella (1936), and Dorothea Tanning (1910). After her are Will Sampson (1933), Sol LeWitt (1928), Thomas Eakins (1844), Cindy Sherman (1954), Margaret Keane (1927), and Jasper Johns (1930).

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