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Helen Frankenthaler

Frankenthaler, Helen Ms.

American, 1928 - 2011

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Kevin Falco, John Hutcheson, Michael Mueller, Kenneth Tyler, Tyler Graphics Ltd., Helen Frankenthaler, Freefall, 1993, color woodcut on hand-dyed TGL handmade paper, Gift of Helen Frankenthaler and Tyler Graphics Ltd., 1993.19.2

Freefall

Kevin Falco, John Hutcheson, Michael Mueller, Kenneth Tyler, Tyler Graphics Ltd., Helen Frankenthaler · 1993 · color woodcut on hand-dyed TGL handmade paper ·  Accession ID  1993.19.2

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Gateway IX

Helen Frankenthaler, Tyler Graphics Ltd. · 1988 · twenty-eight color etching, relief, aquatint, and stencil on TGL hand-made paper mounted in a hand-patinated cast bronze screen in three panels ·  Accession ID  1993.14.1

Helen Frankenthaler, Untitled, 1983, acrylic on paper, Gift of Helen Frankenthaler, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1990.102.1

Untitled

Helen Frankenthaler · 1983 · acrylic on paper ·  Accession ID  1990.102.1

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, pressed TGL hand-made paper pulp, acrylic gel, and acrylic paint, Gift of Helen Frankenthaler, 1993.19.1

Freefall

Helen Frankenthaler · 1992 · pressed TGL hand-made paper pulp, acrylic gel, and acrylic paint ·  Accession ID  1993.19.1