“Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York” by Alexander Nemerov
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts 314 S Park St, Kalamazoo, MIAt the dawn of the 1950s, a promising young painter named Helen Frankenthaler, fresh out of college, moved to New York City. By the decade's end, she had succeeded in establishing herself as an important American artist of the postwar period. In the years in between, she made some of the most daring, head-turning paintings…