Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

Exhibitions

Current

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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

Arles, France
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.

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Helen Frankenthaler

Bistre I, 1976

Acrylic on canvas

101″ H × 24 ½″ W

(256.54 x 62.23 cm)

Kikuo Saito and Friends: New York City Downtown and Beyond, 1970s and 1980s

KinoSaito Arts Center

Verplanck, New York
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. 

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Helen Frankenthaler

Overture, 1992

Acrylic on canvas

70 x 94 in. (177.8 x 238.8 cm)

L'île intérieure (The Inner Island)

Fondation Carmignac

Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles Island
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

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Helen Frankenthaler
Shippan October, 1981
Acrylic on canvas
47 1/4 x 136 in. (120 x 345.4 cm)
 

Connecticut Modern: Art, Design, and the Avant-Garde, 1930–1960

Bruce Museum

Greenwich, CT
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.

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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

Bielfeld, Germany
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.

All artwork unless otherwise noted

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