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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helen Frankenthaler has received more than 893,534 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Helen Frankenthaler is the 876th most popular painter (up from 1,069th in 2019), the 2,855th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,728th in 2019) and the 30th most popular American Painter.

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  • 55.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Helen Frankenthaler ranks 876 out of 2,023. Before her are Andrew Wyeth, Vasily Tropinin, Paja Jovanović, François-Xavier Fabre, Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, and Marie-Gabrielle Capet. After her are Eustache Le Sueur, Aert van der Neer, Jan Provoost, Joseph Anton Koch, Abraham Bosse, and Beatrice Wood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Helen Frankenthaler ranks 187. Before her are Jo Schlesser, Arnfinn Bergmann, Gordie Howe, Aleksey Batalov, Bob Cousy, and Jack Tramiel. After her are Jean Vanier, Lorna Wing, Cannonball Adderley, William Peter Blatty, Laurence Harvey, and Dominique Colonna. Among people deceased in 2011, Helen Frankenthaler ranks 115. Before her are Facundo Cabral, Roman Opałka, Arnfinn Bergmann, Võ Chí Công, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, and Ken Russell. After her are Peter Alexander, Nikolai Andrianov, Diane Cilento, Violetta Villas, John Paul Getty III, and Ange-Félix Patassé.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Helen Frankenthaler ranks 2,855 out of 20,380. Before her are George Lincoln Rockwell (1918), Frank Knight (1885), Fritz Leiber (1910), Everett McGill (1945), Edmund M. Clarke (1945), and Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878). After her are Selena (1971), Alan Dershowitz (1938), Saul Perlmutter (1959), Cy Young (1867), John W. Campbell (1910), and George Mikan (1924).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Helen Frankenthaler ranks 30. Before her are Bruce Nauman (1941), Donald Judd (1928), Cindy Sherman (1954), Dorothea Tanning (1910), Asher Brown Durand (1796), and Andrew Wyeth (1917). After her are Beatrice Wood (1893), Henry Hill (1943), Gutzon Borglum (1867), Grandma Moses (1860), Allan Kaprow (1927), and Will Sampson (1933).

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