Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

Exhibitions

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Helen Frankenthaler

Nepenthe, 1972

Etching and aquatint in colors.

22.125 x 30 in (56.5 x 76.2 cm) 

Collection of Syracuse University Art Museum, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. Gift of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.

"What If I Did This?": Helen Frankenthaler in the 20th-Century Print Ecosystem

Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
August 26 - December 9, 2025

This Frankenthaler Prints Inititative exhibition will explore how Helen Frankenthaler collaborated with printmakers in print studios and workshops throughout her long career. By focusing on her works on paper, this exhibition considers how printshops are key nodes within the printmaking ecosystems, or sites where artists and printers simultaneously championed technical innovations and created community.

 

museum.syr.edu

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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

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
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.

 

artmuseum.indiana.edu

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Milkwood Arcade, 1963

Acrylic on canvas

86 1/2 x 80 3/4 inches (219.7 x 205.1 cm)

Warhol, Pollock and Other American Spaces

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

Madrid, Spain
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.

 

museothyssen.org

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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.

Helen Frankenthaler

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
December 20, 2025 – January 8, 2026

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.

 

blockmuseum.northwestern.edu

All artwork unless otherwise noted

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