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.
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
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.