Current

Toward Dark (detail), 1988
Acrylic on canvas
118 1/4 x 88 1/2 inches
(300.4 x 224.8 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep
Museum of Modern Art
November 18, 2025 - February 8, 2026
An installation of paintings from MoMA’s collection, spanning three decades of Helen Frankenthaler’s career, will be presented in the Museum’s Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium. It will include Toward Dark, a recent acquisition gifted to the Museum from the Foundation.
Warhol, Pollock and Other American Spaces
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
October 21, 2025 - January 25, 2026
The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is organising an exhibition which brings together the work of these two key names of 20th century art, shown alongside that of other artists who were reconsidering issues relating to the new spatial strategies at this same time.
The Foundation will lend two works by Frankenthaler to the exhibition, including Milkwood Arcade, 1963.

Helen Frankenthaler
Altitudes, 1978
Lithograph on paper
22 x 31 in (55.8 x 78.7 cm)
Collection of Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University. Gift of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
September 17 – December 14, 2025
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.

Helen Frankenthaler
Radius, 1993
Woodcut, working proof
Sheet: 28 1/4 x 28 1/4 in
(71.76 x 71.76 cm)
Collection of Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Gift of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
Radius: Helen Frankenthaler Prints in Context
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art
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.
Upcoming

Flood, 1967
Acrylic on canvas
124 1/4 x 140 1/2 inches
(315.6 x 356.9 cm)
Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Helen Frankenthaler
Kunstmuseum Basel
April 18 - August 23, 2026
This exhibition will present forty paintings and fifteen works on paper to trace Frankenthaler’s creative evolution over more than six decades. The largest presentation of her art in Europe to date and her first solo museum exhibition in Switzerland, it is also the first to shed light on her probing study of art history from the Italian Renaissance to modernism.

