
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
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.

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.
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.
Helen Frankenthaler
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
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.