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Original works by Helen Frankenthaler available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Viewpoint II, 1979
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Essence Mulberry, 1977
May 26th backwards, 1961
Guggenheim Berlin
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Savage Breeze, 1974
(In the "Woodcut" section)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Jacob's Ladder, 1957
Helen Frankenthaler at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2 works by Helen Frankenthaler
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Info about the 2005 exhibition, Against the Grain: The Woodcuts of Helen Frankenthaler
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Works from the Kenneth Tyler Collection of international prints
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Canyon, 1965
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Captain's Watch, 1986
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive, California
Before the Caves
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin
Pistachio, 1971
Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin
Savage Breeze, 1974
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York
Flash slideshow; Click "Works on Paper" and navigate to work #17
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Coral Wedge, 1972
Helen Frankenthaler in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Variation II on Mauve Corner, 1969
National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York City
Causeway, 2001
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
Biography of the artist
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Untitled, 1982
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California NEW!
Carousel, 1979
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona NEW!
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Helen Frankenthaler at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
University Art Museum, Albany, New York
Crossing the Threshold: Thirty-Two Women Artists
Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Untitled
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Helen Frankenthaler in the Artchive
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)
Winter Hunt, 1958
University of Michigan Fine Art Slides
Around the Clock with Red
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Miscellaneous Sites:
Art Collection of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia
Filming, 1972 (you may need to scroll down to see the link)
Gihon Foundation
White Makes Four, 1966
Repository of Abstract Art
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Helen Frankenthaler 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Art & Antiques Magazine
"Sense of Place"
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Yoruba, 2002
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Frankenthaler: New Paintings
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Biography only
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Gaga Over Guggenheim's Frankenthaler Exhibition
The Washington Post
Time Magazine
"A Love of Spontaneous Gesture", 1989 article by Robert Hughes
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
look inside
Frankenthaler: Works on Paper 1949-1984
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Frankenthaler: A Catalogue Raisonné
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