Helen Frankenthaler : painting history, writing painting

182 Pages·2007·2.003 MB·English

by  Frankenthaler, Helen, Rowley, Alison, Frankenthaler, Helen

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HELEN
FRANKENTHALER
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HELEN
FRANKENTHALER
Painting History, Writing Painting
ALISON ROWLEY
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CONTENTS
Illustrations viii
Acknowledgements xi
Preface xiii
1 MountainsandSea:Cézanne’sCountryinNewYork
andNovaScotia 1
2 1927:OtherCountries,OtherCézannes 22
3 ASpatialFeelingConnectedwithLandscapes 45
4 SomethingNewinTermsof Nature 60
5 APaintingof theRosenbergEra 86
6 Eden:EtinArcadiaEgo 106
PostFactum 123
Notes 130
Bibliography 152
Index 163
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Figures
Fig.1 PaulCézanneonthehillof LesLauves,c.1905,photographerEmileBernard,
frontispieceof ‘Cézanne’sCountry’byErleLoranJohnson.Reproducedcourtesy
of theNationalGalleryof Art,WashingtonD.C.,GalleryArchives.
Fig.2 Illustrations from Cézanne’s Composition: Analysis of his Form with Diagrams and
Photographsof hisMotifs,byErleLoran[1947],©1971ErleLoran,publishedbythe
University of California Press. Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the
BibemusQuarry,c.1897,oiloncanvas,251⁄8x311⁄2in.(65.1x80cm.)Baltimore
Museumof Art:TheConeCollection,formedbyDrClaribelConeandMiss
EttaConeof Baltimore,MarylandBMA1950.196.
Fig.3 Mapof Aix-en-Provence,reproducedin‘TheLastMotifsatAix’byJohnRewald,
Cézanne:TheLateWork,ed.byWilliamRubinLondon:ThamesandHudson,1983,
originalinthecollectionof theAmericanArchivesof Art.
Fig.4 JacksonPollock,Echo(Number25),1951,enameloncanvas,917⁄8x86in.(233.4x
218.4cm.)NewYork,Museumof ModernArt©ARS,NYandDACS,London
2006;©2005Digitalimage,TheMuseumof ModernArt,NewYork/Scala,
Florence.
Fig.5 Paintings of L’ Estaque by Paul Cézanne in the catalogue of Cézanne: Paintings,
WatercolorsandDrawings:ALoanExhibition,(Chicago:TheArtInstituteof Chicago,
NewYork:TheMetropolitanMuseumof Art,1952).
Fig.6 Cap Rouge on the Cabot Trail, c.1956. Reproduced courtesy of the Nova Scotia
ArchivesandRecordsManagement.
Fig.7 Villageof CapeNorth,c.1954.Reproducedcourtesyof theNovaScotiaArchives
andRecordsManagement.
Fig.8 JacksonPollock,Number14,1951,enameloncanvas,575⁄8x107in.(146.4x271.8
cm.)TateGallery,London,©ARS,NYandLondon2005;©Tate,London2005.
Fig.9 KennethNoland,DarkSweetCherry,1966,acryliconcanvas,56x70in.(142.24x
177.8cm.)Collectionof DavidandAudreyMirvish,Toronto.
Fig.10 MarthaRosler,UnknownSecrets(TheSecretof theRosenbergs),1988,detailof 3-part
installationwithphotosilkscreen,towelrack,JELL-O,box,andtexthandout.
Courtesytheartist.
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ILLUSTRATIONS ix
Fig.11 MarthaRosler,UnknownSecrets(TheSecretof theRosenbergs),1988,detailof 3-part
installationwithphotosilkscreen,towelrack,JELL-O,box,andtexthandout.
Courtesytheartist.
Fig.12 MorrisLouis,CharredJournal:FirewrittenIV,1951,acrylicresin(magna)oncanvas,
Copenhagen,LouisianaMuseumof ModernArt©LouisianaMuseumof Art.
Photograph,LouisianaMuseumof Art.
Fig.13 MorrisLouis,CharredJournal:FirewrittenV,1951,acrylicresin(magna)oncanvas,
34x36in.(86.3x91.4cm.) NewYork,TheJewishMuseum©2006.PhotoThe
JewishMuseum/ArtResource/Scala,Florence.
Fig.14 ‘EthelandJuliusRosenbergareseparatedbyawirescreenastheyaretransported
toSingSingPrison,’Life,16April1951.Photograph,EMPICS.
Fig.15 ‘MarilynMonroeinastraplessdressandhairstylefavouredinthemid1950s’.
PublicityStill.©Bettman/Corbis.
Fig.16 Illustrations in Meaning in the Visual Arts: Papers in and on Art History by Erwin
Panofsky,1955edition.Reproducedcourtesyof DrGerdaS.Panofsky.Nicholas
Poussin, The Arcadian Shepherds, c. 1628-1630. © The Devonshire Collection,
Chatsworth.Reproducedbypermissionof theChatsworthSettlementTrustees.
EtinArcadiaego,GiovanniFrancescoBarbierei,knownasIIGuercino,c.1440,
Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica in Palazzo Barberini. Photograph,
ArchivoFotograficoSoprintendenzaSpecialeperilPoloMusealeRomano.
Fig.17 NicolasPoussin,TheArcadianShepherds,alsoknownas‘EtinArcadiaEgo’c.1638-
40, oil on canvas, 33 1⁄2x 47 3⁄4in. (85 x 121 cm.) Paris, musée du Louvre, as
illustratedinMeaningintheVisualArts:PapersinandonArtHistoryParis,courtesyof
DrGerdaS.Panofsky.
Fig.18 NicolasPoussin,TheArcadianShepherds,alsoknownas‘EtinArcadiaEgo’,c.1638-
40, oil on canvas, 33 1⁄2 x 47 3⁄4 in. (85 x 121 cm.) Paris, musée du Louvre.
PhotographRMN/©René-GabrielOje˙da(detail).
Fig.19 HelenFrankenthaler,MotherGooseMelody,1959,oiloncanvas,82x104in.(208.3
x 264.1 cm.) Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Gift of Sydney and
FrancesLewis.©2007HelenFrankenthaler.©PhotographVirginiaMuseumof
FineArts.
Plates
Pl.1 Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea, 1952, oil and charcoal on unprimed
canvas, 86 5⁄8 x 117¼ in. (220 x 297.8 cm.) Collection: Helen Frankenthaler
Foundation, Inc. (on loan to the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)
©2007HelenFrankenthaler.Image©Boardof Trustees,NationalGalleryof
Art,Washington.
Pl.2 HelenFrankenthaler,GreatMeadows,1951,watercolourandsyntheticpolymeron
paper,22x30½in.(56x77.4cm.)NewYork,Museumof ModernArt©2007
HelenFrankenthaler.©2006DigitalImageTheMuseumof ModernArt,New
York/Scala,Florence.
Pl.3 PaulCézanne,MontSainte-Victoire(LaMontagneSainte-VictoireVuedesLauvesenHiver),
c.1901-1906,watercolourandgraphiteonpalebuff wovepaper;31x47.6cm.
(121⁄4x183⁄4in.)TheHenryandRosePearlmanFoundation;onlong-termloan
tothePrincetonUniversityArtMuseum.PhotographBruceM.White.
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Pl.4 VanessaBell,TheBeachStudland,c.1911,oilonboard,10x131⁄2in.(25.5x34.5
cm.) Private Collection, © 1961 Estate of Vanessa Bell, courtesy Henrietta
Garnett.PhotographcourtesySotherby’s,London.
Pl.5 VanessaBell,StudlandBeach,c.1912,oiloncanvas,30x40in.(76.2x101.6cm.)
TateGallery,London,©1961Estateof VanessaBell,courtesyHenriettaGarnett.
Photograph©Tate,London2005.
Pl.6 HelenFrankenthaler,WithBlue,1953,oiloncanvas,35x31in.(89.9x78.7cm.)
PrivateCollection,©2007HelenFrankenthaler.
Pl.7 BridgetRiley,WinterPalace,1981,oilonlinen,831⁄2x721⁄4in.(212.1x183.5cm.)
LeedsCityArtGallery,©theartist.
Pl.8 AndyWarhol,LavenderDisaster,1963,acrylicandsilkscreeninkoncanvas,108x
82 in. (274 x 208 cm.) The Menil Collection, Huston; © The Andy Warhol
FoundationfortheVisualArts,Inc./ARS,NYandDACS,London2005.
Pl.9 MorrisLouis,Salient,1954,acryliconcanvas,741⁄2x99in.(189.2x252cm.)
CourtesyTheDonaldandBarbaraZuckerFamilyFoundation.
Pl.10 HelenFrankenthaler,HôtelduQuaiVoltaire,1956,mixedmediaonpaper,153⁄8x
23in.(38.1x58.4cm.)PrivateCollection.©2007HelenFrankenthaler.
Pl.11 HelenFrankenthaler,Eden,1956,oilonunprimedcanvas,103x117in.(261.6x
297.2cm.)Privatecollection.©2007HelenFrankenthaler.Image©Geoffrey
Clements/Corbis.
Pl.12 HelenFrankenthaler,Landscape(Nice,France),1956,watercolouronpaper,9½x12
½in.(22.8x30.4cm.)PrivateCollection.©2007HelenFrankenthaler.
Pl.13 FriedelDzubas,EarlyGrave,1957,oiloncanvas,961⁄2x47in.(240.9x120cm.)
Courtesyof theElkonGallery,Inc.,NewYorkCity.
Pl.14 NicolasPoussin,TheArcadianShepherds,alsoknownas‘EtinArcadiaEgo’,c.1638-
40, oil on canvas, 33 1⁄2 x 47 3⁄4 in (85 x 121 cm) Paris, musée du Louvre.
PhotographRMN/©René-GabrielOje˙da.
Pl.15 HelenFrankenthaler,MotherGooseMelody,1959,oilonunprimedcanvas,82x104
in.(208.3x264.1cm.)VirginiaMuseumof FineArts,Richmond.Giftof Sydney
andFrancesLewis.©2007HelenFrankenthaler.©PhotographVirginiaMuseum
of FineArts.Detailreproducedasthecoverof thecataloguefortheexhibition
After Mountains and Sea: Frankenthaler 1956-1959, Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum,courtesytheSolomonR.GuggenheimMuseum.
Pl.16 BrachaLichtenbergEttinger,Eurydiceno.13,(1994-1996).Oilpaintingmixedwith
black photocopy toner and pigments on paper mounted on canvas. Private
Collection.Photographcourtesytheartist.
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