Current

Helen Frankenthaler
Sudden Snow, 1987
Artist Proof 4/12. Ten color lithograph on white Arches Cover paper
31 5/8 x 23 1/2 inches (80.3 x 59.7 cm)
Push and Pull: The Prints of Helen Frankenthaler and Her Contemporaries
The University of New Mexico Art Museum
January 31 - May 17, 2025
This Frankenthaler Prints Initiative exhibition will focus on the contemporary abstract prints and drawing of Helen Frankenthaler and Elaine de Kooning. Displayed alongside their contemporaries, this exhibition demonstrates important collaborations with American publishers such as Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), Tyler Graphics, Ltd., and Tamarind Institute.
Upcoming

Helen Frankenthaler
Sea Level (detail), 1976
Acrylic on canvas
89 x 63 in. (226 x 160 cm.)
Collection of Museum Reinhard Ernst, Wiesbaden, Germany.
Helen Frankenthaler: Move and Make
Museum Reinhard Ernst
March 16 - September 28, 2025
Museum Reinhard Ernst presents an extensive collection-based exhibition of work by Helen Frankenthaler as its first temporary show of 2025. Including works on paper as well as paintings on canvas spanning the years 1950 to 1995, the exhibition will reveal the variety of the artist’s approach to abstract painting over the decades.

Helen Frankenthaler
Open Wall, 1953
Oil on unsized, unprimed canvas
53 3/4 x 131 inches
(136.5 x 332.7 cm)
Helen Frankenthaler: Painting Without Rules
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
April 11 – September 28, 2025
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Helen Frankenthaler: Painting Without Rules, exploring Frankenthaler’s revolutionary approach to painting. Examining Helen Frankenthaler’s artistic affinities, influences, and friendships, this exhibition interweaves paintings and sculptures created between 1953 and 2002 with select works by some of her contemporaries and peers.
The exhibition is organized by the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Helen Frankenthaler
Radius, 1993
Woodcut, working proof
Sheet: 28 1/4 x 28 1/4 in. (71.76 x 71.76 cm)
Radius: Helen Frankenthaler Prints in Context
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art
September 15, 2025 - February 8, 2026
This Frankenthaler Prints Initiative exhibition will present seventeen prints by Helen Frankenthaler together with prints by her contemporaries such as Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell, and Jackson Pollock.

Helen Frankenthaler
Altitudes, 1978
Lithograph on paper
22 × 31 in
Collection of Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
Helen Frankenthaler
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
December 20, 2025 – January 8, 2026
This Frankenthaler Prints Initiative exhibition will examine qualities of unpredictability, chance, and accident in Helen Frankenthaler’s print practice. It will position examples of her work alongside a sampling of lithographs, drawings, and watercolors by other artists from The Block’s collection.