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What Helen Frankenthaler Learned About Painting From Visiting the Old Masters at the Prado

What Helen Frankenthaler Learned About Painting From Visiting the Old Masters at the Prado Read an excerpt from the new book Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York. April 8, 2021 Portrait of American abstract expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler (1928 - 2011) as she poses in her studio, New York, New York, 1978. Photo by Brownie Harris/Corbis via Getty Images. Helen sat on the steps of the Prado, smoking a cigarette in the blazing heat of midafternoon while the museum was closed for siesta. By then she had been in the darkened galleries for five hours, having arrived when the doors opened at nine, and she would go back in when the doors reopened and stay until closing time at 7:30. This was Helen’s routine every day during her time in Madrid, part of a two-month tour she took alone that summer through Spain and southern France.

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