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Item Number: 124129
Title: Painted on 21st Street : HELEN FRANKENTHALER from 1950 to 1959
Author: Elderfield, John ; Lauren Mahony
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781419710612
Description: New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2013. 30cm., hardcover, 162pp. illus. Exhibition catalogue. Summary: While Frankenthaler is recognized to be one of the great American artists of the twentieth century, this exhibition is the first in thirty years—and the first in New York City in more than fifty years—to offer a broad survey of this pivotal body of work. It brings together almost thirty paintings, including important yet rarely seen works from Frankenthaler’s estate, and signature works from public and private collections. Works in the exhibition range from the canvas from which the exhibition takes its title, Painted on 21st Street (1950–51) to the celebrated Mountains and Sea, of 1952; to key paintings of the later 1950s, among them The Museum of Modern Art’s Jacob’s Ladder (1957), and the UC Berkeley Art Museum’s expansive Before the Caves (1958). Together they offer a fresh look at the greater range and diversity of a body of work too often viewed only within the context of Color Field painting. It reveals how, in the 1950s, Frankenthaler was a major second-generation Abstract Expressionist artist who advanced the methods of mid-century painterly abstraction. She did so through the technical innovation of stain painting and by expansion of its affective range of subject matter, drawing inspiration from a broad spectrum of sources, from landscape to the figure; from paleolithic cave paintings to the work of the Old Masters; and from mythical scenes to childhood memories.
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