Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

Exhibitions

Current

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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 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

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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.

 

artmuseum.unm.edu

Upcoming

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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

Wiesbaden, Germany
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.

 

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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

Bilbao, Spain
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. 

 

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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

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
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.

 

artmuseum.indiana.edu

 

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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

Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
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.

 

blockmuseum.northwestern.edu

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