Eden Revisited
Artist:
Helen Frankenthaler
(American, 1928 - 2011)
Place made:United States
Date: 1967-1976
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions:
130 × 69 1/2 in. (330.2 × 176.5 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Brown Foundation, and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
Object number: 77.33.9
Copyright: © Helen Frankenthaler / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Published References
Barbara Rose, Helen Frankenthaler, (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1970), plate 176.
Label Text
Eden Revisited, with its monumental scale and vibrant sections of yellow, orange, red, and blue, typifies Frankenthaler’s work. Several years after first completing the work, Frankenthaler tinted some areas that she had left unpainted, believing that the space should resonate more. Helen Frankenthaler was an important American abstract painter who responded to the Abstract Expressionist movement with works that were referred to as Color Field paintings, which involved saturating unprimed or raw canvases with paint. Frankenthaler would first staple canvas to the floor and then stain it with paint using sponges and rags, creating large swaths of pigment that resemble watercolor washes. She would then cut and stretch the canvas in the orientation she thought was best.
(Anna Stothart, 2016)
(Anna Stothart, 2016)
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