Helen Frankenthaler: Radical Beauty

This book shines a light on Helen Frankenthaler's ground-breaking artwork, featuring 36 woodcuts
Essay by Jane Findlay
Includes the text, ‘The Romance of Learning a New Medium for an Artist,’ by Helen Frankenthaler. First published in The Print Collector's Newsletter, July-August 1977


With a career that spanned six decades, Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) is recognised as eminent among the second generation of American Abstract Expressionist artists of the post-war era. She experimented tirelessly throughout her six-decade long career, producing a large body of work across multiple mediums.

Marking the 10th anniversary of the artist’s death and published to coincide with the major exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, this book shines a light on the artist’s ground-breaking woodcuts and reveals Frankenthaler as a trailblazer of the printmaking movement who endlessly pushed possibilities through her experimentation.