New York-born Helen Frankenthaler is considered one of America’s most important modern artists. An early abstract expressionist, she was a pioneer in the development of color-field painting, whose second generation was inspired by her technique of allowing paint to soak directly into the canvas, as introduced in her seminal 1952 painting Mountains and Sea. In addition to her paintings, Frankenthaler also produced welded-steel sculptures, ceramics, prints, and illustrated books. Numerous solo exhibitions of her work included retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1989) and the Guggenheim Museum, New York (1998).
Illustration from the German translation of Morris Rosenfeld’s Yiddish “sweatshop” poems, Lieder des Ghetto (Songs from the Ghetto). The illustrations in the deluxe book are in the art nouveau style…
Kabbalist Elijah Menaḥem ben Abba Mari Ḥalfan constructed this diagram, now stained and torn, with the assistance of his tutor Abraham Sarfati. It depicts the sefirotic system and includes Ḥalfan’s…
Isabel María Parreño Arce y Valdés (1759–1822), the Marquesa de Llano, had her portrait painted by Anton Raphael Mengs, in Parma, Italy, where her husband was the ambassador from Spain. At the time…