Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown

Exhibition Website

Aug 4 2019 - Oct 27 2019

Parrish Art Museum

Water Mill, NY

The exhibition—one of the largest in PAAM’s history—focuses on the work Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) created in Provincetown between 1950 and 1969, offering a new perspective on this aspect of her oeuvre.

In 1950, at the encouragement of art critic Clement Greenberg, Helen Frankenthaler studied briefly in Provincetown with Hans Hofmann. The exhibition includes intimately scaled works Frankenthaler made while studying with Hofmann and large canvases that reference the sea and landscape of Provincetown, painted in her various studios there. It also features photographs, letters, and memorabilia that shed light on the artist’s process, with an emphasis on the meaning of the place and its impact on her development as a painter.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.

  • Various Media
  • American
  • 20th Century
  • Helen Frankenthaler

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