Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) was an American painter of the Abstract Expressionism and Color Field movements. She grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in wealth and privilege as the daughter of a prominent New Your State Supreme Court Justice, Alfred Frankenthaler. She described her art as a reinterpretation of her personal experiences and memories. Some say she was communicating the values of staying alive; facing crisis and surviving; accepting maturity with grace and joy.

Off White Square is one of her most famous works and her largest. It measures nearly 7 feet by 21 feet. Frankenthaler said a painting should appear to the viewer that it was done in one moment which calls us to see this expanse as an epiphany with little emphasis on analysis.

This painting recently sold for $3,720,500.

Helen Frankenthaler is also the reason for a foundation that benefits art research, education and practice. She started and endowed this foundation while she was living. The Frankenthaler Climate Initiative of the foundation is a recent grant effort of social impact and philanthropy designed to advance carbon neutrality in the visual arts with $10,000,000 to be awarded.

We remember Helen Frankenthaler for her legacy of beauty and conscience and give God thanks for her imagination and talent.

In gratitude, faith and hope,