“Helen Frankenthaler: A Paintings Retrospective,”[1] at the Museum of Modern Art this summer, was an event, heralded by ample color spreads in the glossy magazines and a cover story in The New York Times Magazine. There were interviews in Lear’s, in New York Woman, on the Today show, and in the new British art magazine Modern Painters. The show was thoroughly dissected by the New York papers, the art magazines, and the out-of-town press. Frankenthaler was declared—with the cautious proviso “since the deaths of Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Nevelson”—to be “the country’s most prominent female artist.” (Since Frankenthaler was born a good thirty years after either of her long-lived predecessors, the accolade could even be interpreted as a tribute...

 

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