Summertime in Italy
1960
Artist, American, 1915 - 1991

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil paint and black pencil on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (irreg.): 148.4 × 107.9 cm (58 7/16 × 42 1/2 in.)
framed: 167.32 × 125.73 × 5.08 cm (65 7/8 × 49 1/2 × 2 in.) -
Accession
1999.55.4
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dedalus Foundation, New York; purchased by NGA, 1999.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2025
Helen Frankenthaler: Affinities, Influences, and Friendships, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2024-2025, 112, pl. 92. repro.
Bibliography
2024
Dreishpoon, Douglas, editor.Helen Frankenthaler: Painting Without Rules.Exh. cat. Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2024: pl. 16, 112, color repro.
Inscriptions
"R Motherwell 60" lower right margin, incised.
Markings
None.
Watermarks
None.
Wikidata ID
Q64629017