Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

Exhibitions

Current

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Helen Frankenthaler

Mediterranean Thoughts, 1960

Oil on sized, primed canvas

101 x 93 1/2 in. (256.5 x 237.5 cm)

Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules

Palazzo Strozzi

Florence, Italy
September 27 – January 26, 2025

The largest presentation of Helen Frankenthaler’s work in Italy, this survey comprises 33 of Frankenthaler’s poetic abstractions in an examination of her artistic affinities, influences, and friendships. The exhibition interweaves paintings Frankenthaler created between 1953 and 2002 with select works by some of her contemporaries, including Anthony Caro, Morris Louis, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, David Smith, and Anne Truitt.

 

In addition to significant loans from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation as well as international museums and private collections, the presentation also features works by her peers that were part of the artist’s personal collection.

 

Co-organized by Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the exhibition is curated by Douglas Dreishpoon, Director, Helen Frankenthaler Catalogue Raisonné. 

 

palazzostrozzi.org

 

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Upcoming

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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

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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

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

All artwork unless otherwise noted

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