Object Details
Artist
Helen Frankenthaler, American, b. New York City, 1928–2011
Provenance
Lawence Rubin Gallery, New York, to 1968
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York and Washington, DC, 1 January 1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Exhibition History
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Gravity's Edge," 7 February-15 June 2014, no cat.
PARRISH ART MUSEUM, Watermill, New York. "Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown," 4 August-27 October 2019, color ill. p. 78 (not shown at Provincetown Art Association and Museum).
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960," 22 March 2024-20 April 2025, no cat.
Published References
UNSIGNED. Annual Report: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1968), p. 222.
ASHTON, DORE. "Retrospective/Perspective 1961-74," Arts Magazine 49 (September 1974), p. 36.
WOMEN'S PROGRAM OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Women Artists: A Checklist of Works in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), ill.
ELDERFELD, JOHN. Frankenthaler (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989), p. 198.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 170, p. 187.
ELDERFIELD, JOHN. "Painted on 21st Street," Frankenthaler (New York: Gagosain, 2024). fig. 44, p. 244.
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Date
1967
Accession Number
72.120
Type
Painting
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
93 1/2 × 93 5/8 in. (237.5 × 237.8 cm)
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School
Abstract Expressionism (Second Generation)/Formalist Abstraction
On View
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), 2nd Floor
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Link to Original Record
Record ID
hmsg_72.120