Blue Jay
Helen Frankenthaler
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Date:1963; United States -
Style:Abstract Expressionism -
Genre:abstract -
Location:Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, US -
Dimensions:112.2 x 162.8 cm
Blue Jay
Helen Frankenthaler
Blue Jay
ARTIST
Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011)
"Abstract Expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler was a significant participant in the postwar American art scene, rising to prominence in the 1950s. By the 1960s, Frankenthaler increasingly utilized a technique she referred to as “soak stain,” achieved by painting directly onto an unprimed canvas with turpentine-diluted oil paints. The effect of the soak stain technique is a flat, almost watercolor-like appearance, as seen in Blue Jay."
Toledo Museum of Art
