Helen Frankenthaler
Frankenthaler moved back to New York City in 1948. Frankenthaler met important New York Abstract painters including Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, and Franz Kline. In the early 1950s Frankenthaler developed a style of painting she called "soak-stain" She made paintings by putting canvas on the floor and applying thin paint to the canvas. This would create a "stain" of color. The stained canvases were very large.