Current
Art, Music & Feminism in the 1950s
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
January 21 – May 07, 2023
Featuring works from the museum's collection in addition to loans from public and private collections, Art, Music & Feminism in the 1950s brings together a diverse collection of works produced by women of the era. This group exhibition explores how these artists played a pivotal role in opening new pathways for women in subsequent decades. The Foundation’s loan of Frankenthaler’s painting Break-through is included.
Helen Frankenthaler: Painterly Constellations
Museum Folkwang
December 2, 2022 — March 5, 2023
For the first time in more than 20 years in Germany, the Museum Folkwang is showcasing the powerful oeuvre of Helen Frankenthaler, known as a trailblazer for her role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field Painting. Focusing on Frankenthaler's works on paper, the exhibition was previously presented at the Kunshalle Krems in Austria.

Helen Frankenthaler
Deep Sun, 1983
twenty-two color etching, soft-ground etching, aquatint, spitbite aquatint, drypoint, engraving and mezzotint
30 x 40 1/2 in. (76.2 x 102.87 cm)
Helen Frankenthaler and Jo Sandman: Without Limits
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
September 15, 2022 — March 12, 2023
This exhibition explores what can be learned by juxtaposing the work of two pioneering artists: Helen Frankenthaler and Jo Sandman (b. 1931). Frankenthaler, the elder artist, is more closely identified with image-making, and Sandman, the younger, with process and conceptualism. This exhibition highlights 10 prints and 8 proofs by Frankenthaler that were gifted to the museum through the Frankenthaler Prints Initiative for university-affiliated museums.
Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1990–2003
Artis–Naples, The Baker Museum
September 6 — February 5, 2023
During the 1990s, Frankenthaler naturally transitioned from tackling canvases on the floor to using larger sheets of paper laid out on the floor or tabletops for easier accessibility. The continuity between the late work and what came before is striking—the fruits of an intuitive journey graced by mood, imagination, and technical facility. This exhibition, organized by Douglas Dreishpoon, was previously presented at New Britain Museum of American Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, and the Palm Springs Art Museum. A publication documenting Frankenthaler’s late period, with essays by Dreishpoon and Suzanne Boorsch, and a roundtable conversation with Katharina Grosse, Pepe Karmel, and Mary Weatherford, has been recently published by Radius Books.

Helen Frankenthaler
Western Dream, 1957
oil on unsized, unprimed canvas
70 x 86 in. (177.8 x 218.4 cm)
Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ongoing
The exhibition explores large-scale abstract painting, sculpture, and assemblage, from the 1940s to the twenty-first century, through works from The Met collection and special loans. The Foundation's loan of Western Dream, 1957, remains on view.
Upcoming

Helen Frankenthaler
Beach Scene, 1961
oil and crayon on canvas
122 1/8 x 93 5/8 in. (310.2 x 237.8 cm)
The Shape of Freedom
Munch Museum
February 23, 2023 — May 21, 2023
The Shape of Freedom examines the creative interplay between Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel in transatlantic exchange and dialogue, from the mid-1940s to the end of the Cold War. It includes more than ninety works by around fifty artists, amongst them Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Georges Mathieu, Mark Rothko, Hedda Sterne and Clyfford Still. This exhibition was previously presented at the Albertina Modern in Vienna and the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany.
L'île intérieure (The Inner Island)
Fondation Carmignac
April 28 – 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.