Laura Gascoigne

Ethereal and allusive, all nuance and no schmaltz: Helen Frankenthaler, at Dulwich Gallery, reviewed

The work of this pioneering painter was once dismissed as ‘merely beautiful’. Isn’t that enough?

All nuance and no schmaltz: ‘Cedar Hills’, 1983, by Helen Frankenthaler. Credit: © 2021 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / ARS, NY and DACS, London / Crown Point Press, Oakland, CA 
issue 15 January 2022
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