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Most of this abstract, vertical, roughly rectangular composition is filled with a field of azure blue surrounded by bands of pine green on the sides and bottom. Painted on paper, the blue field is mottled to range from aquamarine to lapis blue. The paint has dripped in areas, especially along the bottom, and puddled, especially across the top. A few streaks of deep amethyst purple cover a lighter area streaked with some green to our left of center. A few other streaks of moss green appear at the center and along the bottom quarter of the composition. The upper corners of the paper are a lighter sky blue. A wavy line of canary yellow seems to contain the blue field along the left half of the bottom edge, and it blends with the blue to create a line of spring green. The dark green borders along the sides and bottom edge of the paper swell out, creating a slightly irregular shape.

Helen Frankenthaler

Freefall, 1992

Not on View

Medium

pressed TGL hand-made paper pulp, acrylic gel, and acrylic paint

Dimensions

sheet: 177.8 x 147.3 cm (70 x 58 in.)

framed: 209.6 x 163.8 cm (82 1/2 x 64 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Helen Frankenthaler

Accession Number

1993.19.1

Artists / Makers

Helen Frankenthaler (artist) American, 1928 - 2011

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Inscription

lower left in green colored pencil: Frankenthaler / '92; lower left verso in graphite: 9/21/92 / HF 92-3057

Marks and Labels

stamp of Tyler Graphics

Provenance

Helen Frankenthaler, New York,; gift to NGA, 1993.

Associated Names

Frankenthaler, Helen

Exhibition History

1993: Helen Frankenthaler: Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; San Diego Museum of Art; Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, 1993-1994.

2001: A Century of Drawing, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001-2002, no. 134.

Bibliography

2001: Brodie, Judith and Andrew Robison, eds. A Century of Drawing. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2001: no. 134.