Current

Helen Frankenthaler
Vessel, 1961
oil on unsized, unprimed canvas
100 x 94 in.
Tate. Presented by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
(Tate Americas Foundation), 2019.
Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction (1940–70))
Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles
June 3 — October 22, 2023
The Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles presents a major exhibition of 130 paintings from an overlooked generation of 70 international women artists. Reaching beyond the predominantly white, male painters whose names are synonymous with the Abstract Expressionist movement, this exhibition celebrates the practices of the numerous international women artists working with gestural abstraction in the aftermath of the Second World War.
Kikuo Saito and Friends: New York City Downtown and Beyond, 1970s and 1980s
KinoSaito Arts Center
May 12 — December 17, 2023
This exhibition features artwork by Saito and the close circle of artists that he was associated with for over 20 years, including Helen Frankenthaler. The Foundation's loan of Bistre I, painted during the period when Saito worked as a studio assistance for Frankenthaler, is included.
L'île intérieure (The Inner Island)
Fondation Carmignac
April 29 – November 4, 2023
With more than 80 works by 50 artists, this exhibition explores the idea of inner landscapes and interior worlds—a concept inspired by the island setting of the Villa Carmignac. The Foundation’s loan of Frankenthaler’s painting Overture will be included.
Upcoming
Connecticut Modern: Art, Design, and the Avant-Garde, 1930–1960
Bruce Museum
September 23, 2023 – January 7, 2024
Connecticut Modern aims to highlight the state's role in the history of 20th century modernism as an important site of contemporary art making. The exhibition draws together many artists and collectors who lived and worked in Connecticut in the 1930s and 1940s. Helen Frankenthaler's Shippan October will be on loan from the Foundation.

Helen Frankenthaler
Vessel, 1961
oil on unsized, unprimed canvas
100 x 94 in.
Tate. Presented by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
(Tate Americas Foundation), 2019.
Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70
Kunsthalle Bielefeld
December 12, 2023 – March 3, 2024
This major exhibition of 130 paintings from an overlooked generation of 70 international women artists arrives at its third venue following the Whitechapel Gallery in London and Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, France. Reaching beyond the predominantly white, male painters whose names are synonymous with the Abstract Expressionist movement, this exhibition celebrates the practices of the numerous international women artists working with gestural abstraction in the aftermath of the Second World War.