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Painting
Seer
Helen Frankenthaler, 1928 - 2011
Frankenthaler, Helen
United States
1928 - 2011
Female
93 1/2 x 85 1/8 in. (237.5 x 216.2 cm)
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without frame
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approximate installation dimensions
frame
Acrylic
Acrylic
1980
1980
1980
1900-2000, 20th century, green, paintings
Painting
Helen Frankenthaler constantly pushed the limits of abstraction throughout her long career. Many of the first generation of abstract artists, such as Jackson Pollock, highlighted the expressive quality of painting. Through her unique process known as “soak-staining”—in which thinned paint was allowed to seep into unprimed canvas— Frankenthaler pioneered the emphasis on color in the following generation. Despite her ground-breaking approach, Frankenthaler’s early achievements were regularly diminished by critics on account of her gender. The artist resisted such limiting interpretations of her paintings:
"I wonder if my pictures are more 'lyrical' (that loaded word!) because I'm a woman. Looking at my paintings as if they were painted by a woman is superficial, a side issue, like looking at Klines and saying they are bohemian. The making of serious painting is difficult and complicated for all serious painters. One must be oneself, whatever."
[Summer 2023, Adam Ranz]
lower rightback of canvasback of canvas
1981.13
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
81.13TR1
Transparency
Memorial Art Gallery
4 x 5
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81.13SL1
slide
full
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glossy
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negative
4x5
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81.13DI1
digital image
Memorial Art Gallery
Imaging complete
6/19/2001
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81.13DI2
digital image
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81.13TR2
transparency
4 x 5
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81.13DI#3
digital image
back - full
11/20/2006
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81.13DI#4
digital image
back - signature
11/20/2006
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81.13DI#5
digital image
back - information
11/20/2006
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Print
Untitled #6
Richard Anuszkiewicz, (Erie, PA, 1930 - 2020, Englewood, NJ)
Anuszkiewicz, Richard
United States
1930 - 2020
Male
18 1/16 x 15 in. (45.9 x 38.1 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1968
1968
1968
1900-2000, 20th century, blue, green, red, serigraphs, square
Print
lower leftlower right
1970.34
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
70.34SL1
slide
2 x 2
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4x5
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70.34DI1
digital image
1/18/2002
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Print
Spectral Squares
Richard Anuszkiewicz, (Erie, PA, 1930 - 2020, Englewood, NJ)
Anuszkiewicz, Richard
United States
1930 - 2020
Male
26 x 26 in. (66 x 66 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1970
1970
1970
1900-2000, 20th century, blue, green, red, serigraphs, square
Print
Look closely at the center four squares at the center of this image. Does the yellowish color appear to be the same in all four squares, or is it different in each one? If you look closely, you might notice that all four squares feature the same yellow-orange color. However, what might make them appear different are the surrounding blue and green outlines, which are distinct in each square. Inspired by the teaching of Josef Albers, Spectral Squares is a lesson in color interaction, and how the perception of a single color can be affected by others adjacent to it.
[Label copy from Seeing in Color and Black and White, 2018]
Richard Anuszkiewicz is interested in what he calls “color systems” that he uses to create an environment; color is always the main concern in his work. Anuszkiewicz received his graduate degree from Yale in 1954, where he studied color interaction with Josef Albers. During this period, he also read and was influenced by Rudolph Arnheim's writings about art and psychology in Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye. Upon leaving school, he began to paint with complimentary colors of full intensity and observed their dynamic effect. He continued to explore the effects of combinations of colors, using simplified forms, mainly the square. He begins his paintings by choosing the colors very carefully under controlled lighting, calling the colors his “cast of characters” and then begins the painting.
[Label Copy, Collection Connections - Psychedelic, installed September 15, 2010
Curated by Cynthia Culbert]
lower right
1979.24
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
negative
4x5
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79.24DI1
digital image
1/18/2002
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79.24DI#2
digital image
8/2/2018
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Print
Spectral Cadmium Suite, Plate #3
Richard Anuszkiewicz, (Erie, PA, 1930 - 2020, Englewood, NJ)
Anuszkiewicz, Richard
United States
1930 - 2020
Male
28 x 28 in. (71.1 x 71.1 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1968
1968
1968
1900-2000, 20th century, blue, green, serigraphs, square
Print
lower right
1979.25
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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negative
4x5
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79.25DI1
digital image
1/18/2002
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Print
Staplework
Karen Nelson, 1933 -
Nelson, Karen
United States
1933
Female
17 5/8 x 18 in. (44.8 x 45.7 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1970
1970
1970
1900-2000, 20th century, blue, Charles Rand Penney Collection, green, red, serigraphs, square, yellow
Print
1975.258
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
75.258 SL1
slide
full
2 x 2
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2.5x3
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75.258DI1
digital image
3/28/2002
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Glass
Bowl
Egyptian artist
Egyptian artist
Egypt
Primary
1 5/16 x 1 3/4 x 1 3/4 in. (3.3 x 4.4 x 4.4 cm)
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Glass
Glass
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0
dishes, Egyptian, Egyptian, glass, green
Glass
1951.251
item
Memorial Art Gallery
2/13/2001
51.251DI1
digital image
00/00/00
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51.251SL1
slide
w 51.255, .197, .193, .192
2 x 2
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51.251DI#2
digital image
1/3/2011
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Glass
Bowl
Egyptian artist
Egyptian artist
Egypt
Primary
1 1/2 x 4 3/8 x 4 3/8 in. (3.8 x 11.1 x 11.1 cm)
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Glass
Glass
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0
dishes, Egyptian, Egyptian, glass, green
Glass
1951.247
item
Memorial Art Gallery
3/10/2001
51.247DI#1
digital image
1/3/2011
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Glass
Bowl
Egyptian artist
Egyptian artist
Egypt
Primary
1 1/4 x 1 7/8 x 1 7/8 in. (3.2 x 4.8 x 4.8 cm)
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Glass
Glass
0
0
dishes, Egyptian, Egyptian, glass, green
Glass
1951.252
item
Memorial Art Gallery
3/10/2001
51.252DI#1
digital image
1/3/2011
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Glass
Bowl
Egyptian artist
Egyptian artist
Egypt
Primary
15/16 x 2 3/16 x 2 1/4 in. (2.3 x 5.6 x 5.7 cm)
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Glass
Glass
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0
dishes, Egyptian, Egyptian, glass, green
Glass
1951.255
item
Memorial Art Gallery
3/10/2001
51.255DI1
digital image
00/00/00
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51.255SL1
slide
w 51.251, .197, .193, .256, .192
2 x 2
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51.255DI#2
digital image
1/3/2011
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Print
One
Robert Indiana, 1928 - 2018
Indiana, Robert
United States
1928 - 2018
Male
26 x 20 in. (66 x 50.8 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1968
1968
1968
1900-2000, 20th century, blue, circle, green, numbers, red, serigraphs
Print
Gallery label text 2013:
Indiana’s attention to American themes, use of bright, vibrating color and formal configurations marked him as one of the central figures of American Pop art. His work often consists of bold, simple, iconic images, especially numbers and short words like EAT, HUG, and, his best known example, LOVE.
Indiana was drawn to the existential aspects of numbers, which he regarded as the basic elements structuring our daily lives and representing the spectrum of existence, 1 representing birth and 0 standing between life and death.
lower right, below image
2002.25
item
Memorial Art Gallery
7/12/2001
2002.25DI1
digital image
00/00/00
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2002.25DI2
digital image
2 x 2
11/20/2002
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negative
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glossy
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2002.25SL1
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full
2 x 2
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