Object Details
- Provenance
- The artist, St. Jean de Luz, France, July 1958
- Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, October 1958-17 May 1966
- Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
- Exhibition History
- ADELPHI COLLEGE, Garden City, New York. "May Festival," 30 April-22 May 1959.
- MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Sao Paulo, Brazil. "V Bienal," 21 September-31
- December 1959, no. 63.
- HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution,
- Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975 (work on display: 12 April-15 September 1975- hung halfway through to replace Jimmy Ernst, Papageno).
- ROSE ART MUSEUM, Brandeis University, Massachusetts. "Frankenthaler: The 1950s," 10 May-28 June 1981, no. 36, p. 45.
- DUKE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART, Durham, North Carolina. "Paintings of the 50s: Another Look, a Loan of Twenty-one Paintings from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden," 3 October-27 November 1983, p. 16.
- SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York. "Frankenthaler: The Early Years,"
- 16 January-3 May 1998. Tour: MUSEO GUGGENHEIM BILBAO, 6 June-4 October 1998.
- MUSEO THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA, Madrid. "Monet y la Abstraccion," 23 February-30 May 2010.
- MUSEE NATIONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS DU QUEBEC. "America. Between Dreams and Realities: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection," 9 June-5 September 2022, color ill. p. 52.
- Published References
- ROSE, BARBARA. Frankenthaler (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1972), fig. 59, p. 129.
- MINEMURA, TOSHIAKI. "When Illusion Becomes a Painting," Mizue 6/879 (June
- 1978), ill.
- SANDLER, IRVING. The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties
- (New York: Harper and Row, 1978), fig. 29.
- PARK, EDWARDS. Treasures of the Smithsonian (Washington, DC. Smithsonian
- Books, 1983), ill.
- CHAPPARO, JACQUELINE and MARY ANN TROST. Reading Literature (Evanston,
- IL: McDougal, Littell & Company, 1985), p. 276.
- ELDERFELD, JOHN. Frankenthaler (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989), p. 125.
- SMITH, ROBERTA. "Showing the Way to the Vanguard at the Guggenheim," New
- York Times (16 January 1998).
- UNSIGNED. Guggenheim Bilbao Promotional Pamphlet for After Mountains and Sea:
- Frankenthaler 1956-1959, 1998, cover.
- Data Source
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Artist
- Helen Frankenthaler, American, b. New York City, 1928–2011
- Date
- 1958
- Credit Line
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
- Medium
- Oil and charcoal on canvas
- Dimensions
- 58 5/8 × 69 5/8 in. (148.8 × 176.8 cm)
- Type
- Painting
