Object number1997.11.1

Orange Painting

Date1957 (April)

Artist Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928 - 2011)

CultureAmerican

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsFramed: 24 13/16 x 24 13/16 x 1 3/8 in. (63.02 x 63.02 x 3.49 cm)
Sight: 25 x 25 in. (63.5 x 63.5 cm)

Credit LineGift from the Roland F. Pease Collection

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Painting

SignedSigned “Frankenthaler 4/57” , Lower right corner

BibliographyNobuyuki, Okabe, "Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College," (Japan: Yamagata Museum of Art) Cat. no. 80, p. 138

Vassar Exhibitions

Paris-New York: Modernist Painting in 19th and 20th century Masterworks from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College

Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art from the Permanent Collection

Twentieth-Century American Women Artists from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College

Exhibition HistoryArt & Friendship: Selections from the Roland F. Pease Collection, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY, July 10 - September 13, 1997;
"The Roland F. Pease Collection”: January 16 - March 15, 1998 (FLLAC)

"Twentieth Century American Women Artists", September 18 - November 2, 2007. (Park Avenue Bank: New York); Japan, Shimane Art Museum, "Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York," March 7 - May 11, 2008. Cat. no. 80, p 138.

Japan, Ishibashi Museum of Art, "Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York," May 17 - July 20, 2008. Cat. no. , p .

Japan, Yamagata Museum of Art, "Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York," July 30 - August 31, 2008. Cat. no. , p. .

Japan. Fuchu Art Museum, "Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York," September 6 - November 3, 2008. Cat. no. , p. .

Japan, Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum, "Paris--New York; Modern Paintings in 19th and 20th Century Master Works from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York," November 14 - December 14, 2008;

Poughkeepsie, New York, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art from the Permanent Collection," July 12 - September 8, 2013.

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