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Helen Frankenthaler  (American, New York 1928–2011 Darien, Connecticut)

Date:
1956
Medium:
Oil and enamel on canvas
Dimensions:
54 3/4 x 25 in. (139.1 x 63.5 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2006
Accession Number:
2006.32.17
Rights and Reproduction:
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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  • Description

    After seeing a show of Jackson Pollock’s recent work in New York in 1950, Frankenthaler worked to extend Pollock’s drip-and-pour method to include large collagelike forms of color. The year after she made this picture, Frankenthaler commented “I am involved in making pictures ‘hold’ an explosive gesture, something that is moving in and out of landscapelike depths but lies flat in local areas—intact but not confined . . . “

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: Signed (lower right center): Frankenthaler

  • Provenance

    John Bernard Myers (1920-1987), New York; Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman, Chicago, purchased from Myers, ca. 1958 - her gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006.

  • Exhibition History

    An American Choice: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 21-September 27, 1981, exh. cat. by William S. Lieberman, pp. 89 (ill.), 154.

    Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 18, 2007 - February 3, 2008, exh. cat. edited by Gary Tinterow, Lisa Mintz Messinger, and Nan Rosenthal, no. 26, pp. 165-167 (ill.; essay by David Anfam).

  • References

    Hilton Kramer, "Modernist Show Moves Met Firmly into Art of 20th Century," The New York Times, May 22, 1981, p. C21.

    John Elderfield, Frankenthaler (NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1989), pp. 99, 102 (ill.), 396, no. 102.

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