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Helen Frankethaler

ArtWorthy09.20.2024

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Painted in 1976, Dream Decision was painted following a series of momentous changes in Frankenthaler's life. She closed her 83rd Street Studio in 1970 after a decade of working there, and in 1971 divorced Abstract Expressionist painter Robert Motherwell after thirteen years of marriage.
In the midst of these personal challenges, Frankenthaler concurrently found huge success in her professional life. In 1969, she was celebrated with an impressive retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and in 1972, she was the subject of a major monograph by Barbara Rose, an American art historian and critic who studied under the esteemed Meyer Schapiro.

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