Helen Frankenthaler, on the other hand, broke the Lee mold and was such a crazy genius that I think some people don’t even know that she was married to Robert Motherwell. Or they do know that and they think to themselves, Was he worthy? This beautiful series above was taken by Ernst Haas in 1969.
Now, it’s Helen, who was an Uptown Girl from birth, so you have to understand that there was also a little bit of this-
Photo by Gordon Parks, c. 1957
Photo by Michael Fredericks
Helen Frankenthaler with Alexander Liberman, in her studio, New York City, 1967, Photo by Dan Budnick
And at the end of the day, she was coming home to Motherwell and this-
Photographed at Yale by Sedat Pakay
Photo by William Grigsby, originally published for the article “Artists as Collectors” in the November/December 1967 issue ofArt in America. Drool. But always, she was back at this-
Photo by Hans Namuth, 1987
Photo by Hans Namuth, 1984
Photo by Alexander Liberman
Photo by Alexander Liberman
Helen Frankenthaler in her studio in Darien, Connecticut, 2003. Photo by Suzanne DeChillo.
This post originally appeared on the Gravel & Gold blog.