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BENNINGTON â Bennington College and the Bennington Museum apply for and receive grants on a regular basis. But not all of them bear the name of one of the most notable artists who ever called Bennington home.
The college and the museum announced Tuesday they are among the inaugural recipients of the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative, launched by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation to support energy-efficiency and clean-energy use and address climate change action.
Frankenthaler (1928-2011), a second-generation abstract expressionist artist and pioneer in the Color Fields movement, was a 1949 graduate of Bennington and is among the schoolâs most famous alumni.
Gifts from Helen Frankenthaler Foundation s climate initiative to benefit Bennington College, Bennington Museum
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What Helen Frankenthaler Learned About Painting From Visiting the Old Masters at the Prado
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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.