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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 837,379 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Helen Frankenthaler is the 1,070th most popular painter (up from 1,176th in 2019), the 3,738th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,579th in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Helen Frankenthaler ranks 1,070 out of 1,421Before her are Philip de Koninck, Bartolomeo Carducci, Jankel Adler, Hermann Zapf, Pieter de Molijn, and Gerrit Berckheyde. After her are Benjamin West, Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz, Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Orest Kiprensky, Zacharie Astruc, and Huang Gongwang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Helen Frankenthaler ranks 227Before her are Eugenio Monti, Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Ethel Kennedy, Hubert Selby Jr., Nils Christie, and Eric Dolphy. After her are Shulamit Aloni, Robert Brout, Amata Kabua, Maynard Ferguson, Bengt Gustavsson, and Robert Indiana. Among people deceased in 2011, Helen Frankenthaler ranks 146Before her are Susannah York, Abdul Fatah Younis, Osamu Dezaki, Bo Carpelan, Seve Ballesteros, and Pedro Armendáriz Jr.. After her are Patrick Leigh Fermor, Gerry Rafferty, Robert Brout, Lena Nyman, Edward Hardwicke, and Bernd Eichinger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Helen Frankenthaler ranks 3,738 out of 18,182Before her are David Boreanaz (1969), John C. Woods (1911), Arthur Janov (1924), Alexandra Daddario (1986), Richard Mentor Johnson (1780), and James Marsden (1973). After her are Thomas Sowell (1930), Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887), Booker T. Washington (1856), Eric Singer (1958), Marie Tharp (1920), and Majel Barrett (1932).

Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Helen Frankenthaler ranks 46Before her are John Frederick Kensett (1816), Sam Francis (1923), Beatrice Wood (1893), Ellsworth Kelly (1923), Franz Kline (1910), and Maso di Banco (1250). After her are Benjamin West (1738), James Turrell (1943), Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847), Ad Reinhardt (1913), James Rosenquist (1933), and John Singleton Copley (1738).