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Helen Frankenthaler (born December 12, 1928) is an
United States|American abstract expressionist
artist. Born in New York City, her work is
influenced by Jackson Pollock. She later married
fellow artist Robert Motherwell.

Her career was launched in 1952 with the
exhibition of Mountains and Sea. In it, she
introduced the style of painting directly on to an
unprepared canvas, so that the material absorbs
the colors. This style, known as "soak stain" was
imitated by other artists (notably Morris Louis
and Kenneth Noland) and launched the "Color Field"
school of painting.

Some of her thoughts on painting:
A really good picture looks as if it's
happened at once.  It's an immediate image.  For
my own work, when a picture looks labored and
overworked, and you can read in it—well, she
did this and then she did that, and then she did
that—there is something in it that has not
got to do with beautiful art to me.  And I usually
throw these out, though I think very often it
takes ten of those over-labored efforts to produce
one really beautiful wrist motion that is
synchronized with your head and heart, and you
have it, and therefore it looks as if it were born
in a minute. (In Barbara Rose, Frankenthaler (New
York: Harry N. Abrams, 1975), p. 85)