Draft
- Date
- 1969
- Material
- Acrylic on canvas
- made in
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Paintings
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 247
- Dimensions
- 93 1/8 x 61 in. (236.5 x 154.9 cm)
framed: 94 1/4 x 62 1/4 in. (239.4 x 158.1 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of Louis and Mary Zorensky
- Rights
- © 2013 Estate of Helen Frankenthaler / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Object Number
- 47:2006
NOTES
To make her layered paintings, Helen Frankenthaler invented the technique of stain painting—pouring washes of thinned paint directly onto raw, unstretched canvas placed on the floor. The resulting forms are broad—yet carefully controlled—areas of color that flood across the surface of the canvas. Both the process and the composition reveal her interest in the gestural application of paint and the relationships between colors. The tiny orange area at the top of the painting, for example, bursts out from the great expanse of blue beneath it.
Provenance
1969 - 1974
Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), New York, NY, USA
1974 - 2006
Mary Gendler Zorensky and Louis Isaac Zorensky (d.2005), St. Louis, MO, purchased from the artist [1]
2006 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, given by Mary G. Zorensky [2]
Notes:
[1] Mr. and Mrs. Zorensky purchased the painting directly from the artist. The invoice dated April 15, 1974 is on Frankenthaler's letterhead, with a handwritten note "Paid in full" initialed by the artist [copy, SLAM document files]. Photographs provided by the donor, dated March 1974, show the painting in the artist's studio [SLAM document files].
[2] Deed of gift signed by the donor's daughter, Irene Fowle, August 23, 2006 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, September 26, 2006.
Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), New York, NY, USA
1974 - 2006
Mary Gendler Zorensky and Louis Isaac Zorensky (d.2005), St. Louis, MO, purchased from the artist [1]
2006 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, given by Mary G. Zorensky [2]
Notes:
[1] Mr. and Mrs. Zorensky purchased the painting directly from the artist. The invoice dated April 15, 1974 is on Frankenthaler's letterhead, with a handwritten note "Paid in full" initialed by the artist [copy, SLAM document files]. Photographs provided by the donor, dated March 1974, show the painting in the artist's studio [SLAM document files].
[2] Deed of gift signed by the donor's daughter, Irene Fowle, August 23, 2006 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, September 26, 2006.
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