Painter
Helen Frankenthaler
Poured thinned paint straight onto unprimed canvas so the colour soaked in, which started colour field painting more or less overnight.
Helen Frankenthaler was an American abstract expressionist painter. She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades, she spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work. Frankenthaler began exhibiting her large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in contemporary museums and galleries in the early 1950s. She was included in the 1964 Post-Painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg that introduced a newer generation of abstract painting that came to be known as color field. Born in Manhattan, she was influenced by Greenberg, Hans Hofmann, and Jackson Pollock's paintings. Her work has been the subject of several retrospective exhibitions, including a 1989 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and been exhibited worldwide since the 1950s. In 2001, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
- Born
- 1928-12-12, New York, New York, USAA Wednesday
- Died
- 2011-12-27, Darien, Connecticut, USAA Tuesday, aged 83
- At birth
- Sun in Sagittarius, Moon in Sagittarius
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
Died
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1928-12-12, New York, New York, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
America/New_YorkThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Sagittarius | 20°27′ | Direct |
| Moon | Sagittarius | 25°48′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Sagittarius | 17°12′ | Direct |
| Venus | Aquarius | 0°46′ | Direct |
| Mars | Cancer | 2°55′ | Retrograde |
| Jupiter | Taurus | 0°43′ | Retrograde |
| Saturn | Sagittarius | 21°26′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Aries | 3°28′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Virgo | 1°21′ | Retrograde |
| Pluto | Cancer | 17°50′ | Retrograde |
Death Chart
2011-12-27, Darien, Connecticut, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
The chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 5°35′ | Direct |
| Moon | Aquarius | 13°18′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Sagittarius | 14°19′ | Direct |
| Venus | Aquarius | 8°32′ | Direct |
| Mars | Virgo | 19°00′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Taurus | 0°22′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Libra | 28°00′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Aries | 0°46′ | Direct |
| Neptune | Aquarius | 28°46′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Capricorn | 7°10′ | Direct |
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Helen Frankenthaler was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.