Abstract climates : Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown
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Abstract climates : Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown
[Provincetown Art Association and Museum] , Yale University Press [distributor], c2018
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Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Massachusetts, July 6-Sep. 2, 2018; the Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, New York, Aug. 4-Oct. 22, 2019
Includes bibliographical references (p. 94)
Contents of Works
- A personal note : Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown / Lise Motherwell
- Banner season : Helen Frankenthaler's American summers / Daniel Belasco
- Drawing and the drawing of color : Helen Frankenthaler and the inspiration of pure gesture / Alicia G. Longwell and Terrie Sultan
- East end light : Frankenthaler in Provincetown in the 1960s / Elizabeth A.T. Smith
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Description
An influential abstract expressionist and a pioneer in the Color Field movement, Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) spent several summers painting in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She first came in 1950 to the seaside town with a long history as an artist colony to study at Hans Hofmann's studio school and would return for more than a decade while married to the artist Robert Motherwell. This finely illustrated publication explores the works from this formative time in Frankenthaler's career, while also examining the artist's innovative methods and process. Drawing inspiration from the natural scenery of Provincetown, Frankenthaler created paintings that reverberate with a suggestiveness of place that goes beyond the idea of landscape to capture the atmosphere and climate of the New England locale. This illuminating look into Frankenthaler's development as an artist reveals how one particular location helped shape an abstract painter whose works never fit neatly within any category of subsequent abstraction.
Distributed for the Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Exhibition Schedule:
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
(07/06/18-09/02/18)
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York
(08/04/19-10/27/19)
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