A Page From A Book III
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etching and aquatint with stencil-applied opaque watercolor on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 12.3 × 53.5 cm (4 13/16 × 21 1/16 in.) sheet: 25.8 × 62.4 cm (10 3/16 × 24 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Neal T. Turtell and Thomas G. Klarner
Accession Number
2022.35.18
Art Historical Context
Helen Frankenthaler's *A Page From A Book* (1997) invites viewers into the abstract world of one of America's foremost Color Field painters. This intimate print, measuring just 12.3 × 53.5 cm, combines etching and aquatint—techniques that allow for intricate lines and rich tonal gradations—with stencil-applied opaque watercolor wove paper. The elongated, horizontal format evokes a turned page, suggesting a series of meditative abstractions that blend painting's fluidity with printmaking's precision. Frankenthaler, a second-generation Abstract Expressionist, revolutionized postwar American art...
About the Artist
Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) was born in New York City into a cultivated family; her father was a justice of the New York Supreme Court. She studied painting at the Dalton School under the Mexican muralist Rufino Tamayo and went on to Bennington College in Vermont, graduating in 1949. Returning to New York, she entered the circle of the Abstract Expressionist painters and studied with Hans Hofm...