Fierce Poise

Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York

By: Alexander Nemerov

at the dawn of the 1950s, a promising young painter named helen frankenthaler, fresh out of college, moved to new york city. by the decade's end, she had succeeded in establishing herself as an important american artist of the postwar period. in the years in between, she made some of the most daring, head-turning paintings of her day and also came into her own as a woman: traveling the world,...