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Helen Frankenthaler
Sudden Snow, 1987
Artist Proof 4/12. Ten color lithograph on white Arches Cover paper
31 5/8 x 23 1/2 in (80.3 x 59.7 cm)
Collection of The University of New Mexico Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. Gift of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
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.

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.
Upcoming

Helen Frankenthaler
Monotype X, 1991
Ink colors painted on and printed from one woodblock.
25 1/2 x 38 1/2 in (64.8 x 97.8 cm)
Collection of North Dakota Museum of Art, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND. Gift of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
Helen Frankenthaler: From Paint to Print
North Dakota Museum of Art
April 10 - July 20, 2025
This Frankenthaler Prints Initiative exhibition will feature 31 works gifted to the Museum by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. The exhibition will also include limited edition prints by other artists from the Museum collection who worked with celebrated fine art print publisher Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE).

Helen Frankenthaler
Open Wall, 1953
Oil on unsized, unprimed canvas
53 3/4 x 131 in (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.
Vertigo
Fondation Carmignac
April 26 - November 2, 2025
Echoing the dizzying experience of the Mediterranean sun, the mistral, the waves and the sea spray, but also the immensity of the sky and the marine depths of the island of Porquerolles, the VERTIGO exhibition explores in a unique way the links between the perception of natural phenomena and abstraction since the 1950s.
The Foundation’s loan of Petroglyphs, 1990 will be included in this exhibition.

Helen Frankenthaler
Nepenthe, 1972
Etching and aquatint in colors.
22.125 x 30 in (56.5 x 76.2 cm)
Collection of Syracuse University Art Museum, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. Gift of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
"What If I Did This?": Helen Frankenthaler in the 20th-Century Print Ecosystem
Syracuse University Art Museum
August 26 - December 9, 2025
This Frankenthaler Prints Inititative exhibition will explore how Helen Frankenthaler collaborated with printmakers in print studios and workshops throughout her long career. By focusing on her works on paper, this exhibition considers how printshops are key nodes within the printmaking ecosystems, or sites where artists and printers simultaneously championed technical innovations and created community.

Helen Frankenthaler
Radius, 1993
Woodcut, working proof
Sheet: 28 1/4 x 28 1/4 in (71.76 x 71.76 cm)
Collection of Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Gift of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
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.
Warhol, Pollock and Other American Spaces
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
October 21, 2025 - January 25, 2026
The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is organising an exhibition which brings together the work of these two key names of 20th century art, shown alongside that of other artists who were reconsidering issues relating to the new spatial strategies at this same time.
The Foundation will lend two works by Frankenthaler to the exhibition, including Milkwood Arcade, 1963.

Helen Frankenthaler
Altitudes, 1978
Lithograph on paper
22 x 31 in (55.8 x 78.7 cm)
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.