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1985–1992

The National Council on the Arts

From 1985 to 1992 she serves, as a presidential appointee, on the National Council on the Arts, which advises the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.

1989–1990

Painting retrospective: Fort Worth and MoMA

The retrospective “Helen Frankenthaler: a Painting Retrospective” opens at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (1989–90) and then travels to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

1990–1994

The National Academy of Design

In 1990 she is elected an Associate member of the National Academy of Design, and in 1994 she becomes a full Academician.

1994

Married: Stephen McKenzie DuBrul

1994

Lifetime Achievement award from the CAA

She receives the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement from the College Art Association.