Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) has long been recognized as one of the great
American artists of the twentieth century. A member of the second generation of
American postwar abstract painters, she is widely credited with expanding the
possibilities of abstraction through her invention of the soak-stain technique, and her
highly personal references to figuration and landscape.
This monograph is a revised and expanded edition of John Elderfield's landmark
monograph (Frankenthaler, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1989) for the twenty-first century. It
includes updated text throughout, along with a new chapter that covers work made
post-1988. There are over 300 full-color reproductions of artworks by Frankenthaler,
along with nearly 100 comparative illustrations and documentary photographs. As with
the original book, this promises to be the definitive volume on Frankenthaler's career,
written by the leading expert on her oeuvre.