"I wanted things that I couldn't at times articulate." Interior Landscape, 1964 Helen Frankenthaler, the lyrically abstract painter whose technique of staining pigment into raw canvas helped shape an influential art movement in the mid-20th century, and who became one of the most admired artists of her generation, died on Tuesday at her home in Darien, Conn. She was 83. - Grace Glueck, from the New York Times obituary In the studio, 1957 In the studio, 1957 Installation shot: Small's Paradise, 1964. * Photographs above of Helen Frankenthaler in her studio by Burt Glinn (c) .