

HELEN FRANKENTHALER
About the Artist
Helen Frankenthaler (Manhattan, 1928 – 2011) was among the most influential artists of the mid-20th century. Helen Frankenthaler was the founder of Color Field. She developed an innovative technique of staining her unprimed canvases by pouring thinned paint directly onto the surface.
She was a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work for over six decades, abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler was working from the early 1950s until 2011. She spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work. Frankenthaler began exhibiting her large-scale abstract expressionist paintings in contemporary museums and galleries in the early 1950s.
She was included in the 1964 Post-Painterly abstraction exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg that introduced a newer generation of abstract painting that came to be known as Color Field. Born She worked alongside Greenberg, Hans Hofmann, and Jackson Pollock. Her work has been the subject of several retrospective exhibitions, including a 1989 retrospective at MoMa. In 2001, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Artist CV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 – Giving Up One's Mark: Helen Frankenthaler In The 1960S And 1970SAlbright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NYSolo
2014– Helen Frankenthaler Composing With Color: Paintings 1962–1963Gagosian Gallery , New York City, NYSolo
2014– Helen Frankenthaler: PaintingsBernard Jacobson Gallery , New York City, NYSolo
2013– Painted On 21St Street: Helen Frankenthaler From 1950 To 1959Gagosian Gallery , New York City, NYSolo
2012– Helen Frankenthaler - Solo ShowGreg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WASolo
2012– Helen Frankenthaler - Solo ExhibitAugen Gallery, Portland, ORSolo
2012-10– ! The First DecadeDaum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MOSolo
2011– WoodcutsTalley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TXSolo
2011– Frankenthaler: East and BeyondKnoedler & Company, New York City, NYSolo
2010 – Prints and Proofs of the 1960s from the Artist's ArchiveCraig F. Starr Gallery, New York City, NYSolo
2010 – Helen Frankenthaler - Paintings 1961 – 1973John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CASolo
2008 – Frankenthaler at Eighty: Six DecadesKnoedler & Company, New York City, NYSolo
2008 – Helen Frankenthaler: Paintings 1959 - 2002Bernard Jacobson Gallery, LondonSolo
2008 – Helen FrankenthalerPace Prints, New York City, NYSolo
2008 – Helen Frankenthaler, East and Beyond: Woodcuts 1973-77Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York City, NYSolo
2005 – Against the grain - Helen Frankenthaler woodcutsNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACTSolo
2004 – Woodcuts & WoodblocksPace Prints, New York City, NYSolo
2004 – Helen FrankenthalerLeslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles, CASolo
2003 – Helen Frankenthaler - The Woodcuts 1973 – 2000Portland Art Museum, Portland, ORSolo
2003 – FrankenthalerRoyal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, ScotlandSolo
2003 – Helen Frankenthaler - HeartsASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZSolo
2003– Frankenthaler - Paintings on PaperMuseum of Contemporary Art North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FLSolo
2002– Frankenthaler - The WoodcutsYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CTSolo
2001– Helen Frankenthaler Prints: 1970 - 2000Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WASolo
2000 – Helen Frankenthaler - On Paper 1990 - 1999Bernard Jacobson Gallery, LondonSolo
1998 – Helen Frankenthaler - Mountains and SeaDeutsche Guggenheim, BerlinSolo
1998 – Frankenthaler - The Darker PaletteThe Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DCSolo
1998 – Después de Montañas y mar - Frankenthaler 1956-1959Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, BilbaoSolo
1998 – Helen Frankenthaler: Tales of Genji and Other New WorksGreenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CASolo
1998 – Helen Frankenthaler: Tales of GenjiGreg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WASolo
1998 – After Mountains and Sea - Frankenthaler 1956-1959Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NYSolo
1995 – Helen Frankenthaler Reflections - A suite of 12 new lithographsGreg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WASolo
1995 – Helen Frankenthaler: Recent Prints and Paintings on PaperGreenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CASolo
1993 – Helen Frankenthaler: PrintsThe National Gallery of Art, Washington, DCSolo
1990 – Helen Frankenthaler - A paintings retrospectiveThe Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MISolo
1990 – Helen Frankenthaler - A paintings retrospectiveLos Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA,Los Angeles, CASolo
1989 – Helen Frankenthaler: A Painting RetrospectiveThe Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TXSolo
1989 – Helen Frankenthaler: A Painting RetrospectiveMoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NYSolo
1987 – Helen Frankenthaler Recent Prints: 1985-87Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WASolo
1981 – Frankenthaler: the 1950´sThe Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MASolo
1980 – The Prints of Helen FrankenthalerBirmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, ALSolo
1980 – Frankenthaler -Solo ExhibitKalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MISolo
1975 – Helen Frankenthaler: Paintings 1969-1975The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DCSolo
1973 – Helen Frankenthaler Painted Book CoversThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NYSolo
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 – Women Of Abstract ExpressionismDenver Art Museum, Denver, COGroup
2016 – Modernist Intersections: The Tia CollectionThe University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZGroup
2016 – Not in New York: Carl Solway and CincinnatiCincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OHGroup
2016 – Plane.siteGagosian Gallery, San Francisco, CAGroup
2016 – Declaration Robischon Gallery, Denver, COGroup
2016 – Prints And PotsHiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TXGroup
2016 – Mid-Century in Full Color ExhibitionGalerie D'orsay, Boston, MAGroup
2016 – Learning to See ColorUniversity of Denver, Denver, COGroup
2016 – Paintings, Drawings & SculptureJohn Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CAGroup
2016 – Master Prints of the '70s - '90sZane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NMGroup
2015 – In the Studio: PhotographsGagosian Gallery , New York City, NYGroup
2015 – Pretty Raw: After And Around Helen FrankenthalerThe Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MAGroup
2015 – The Year of the Ram: Works by 22 ArtistsCarl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OHGroup
2015 – Helen Frankenthaler: Aimée ParrottPippy Houldsworth Gallery, LondonGroup
2015 – Winter SelectionLoretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2014 – In Living Color: Andy Warhol and Contemporary PrintmakingJoslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NEGroup
2014 – Abstraction: Modernist Masters From the Bennington CollectionUsdan Gallery - Bennington College, Bennington, VTGroup
2014 – Openness And Clarity: Color Field Works From The 1960S And 1970sHonor Fraser, Los Angeles, CAGroup
2014 – Helen Frankenthaler and David SmithCraig F. Starr Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2014 – Starting Out - 9 Abstract Painters 1958 - 1971Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2014 – Distilled: The Small Painting ShowBernard Jacobson Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2014 – Rothko to Richter: Mark-Making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. HaskellPrinceton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJGroup
2014 – Artists of the James GalleryACME Fine Art & Design, Boston, MAGroup
2014 – Modern and Contemporary Ceramics Kay Hardy and Gregory Kaslo CollectionBoise Art Museum BAM, Boise, IDGroup
2014 – Gravity’s EdgeHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DCGroup
2014 – Making Painting: Helen Frankenthaler And Jmw TurnerTurner Contemporary, Margate, KentGroup
2014 – American Art: 1950–1975Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MAGroup
2014 – Color: Theories and StructuresThe Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, Gambier, OHGroup
2013 – Helen Frankenthaler & Robert MotherwellGreenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CAGroup
2013 – Pollock e gli Irascibili - La scuola di New YorkPalazzo Reale, MilanGroup
2013 – Pictures of NothingThe Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NYGroup
2013 – Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern ArtThe Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, CAGroup
2013 – Dna: Strands Of AbstractionLoretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2013 – Playing with Process: Explorations in Experimental PrintmakingMFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TXGroup
2013 – Re:Vision - Landscapes from the Permanent CollectionMount Holyoke College Art Museum,South Hadley, MAGroup
2013 – American Masters Art of the 19th – 21st centuriesSomerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DEGroup
2013 – April Brief: Notes from the Color FieldDavis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MAGroup
2013 – Ab-ex Re-con - Abstract Expressionism ReconsideredNassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NYGroup
2013 – Caro, Frankenthaler, Louis, Motherwell, Noland, Olitski, StellaPaul Kasmin Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2013 – Abstractions On PaperCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, ARGroup
2012 – Master VisionsAnnandale Galleries, Annandale, NSWGroup
2012 – Elles: PompidouSeattle Art Museum, Seattle, WAGroup
2012 – OC CollectsOrange County Museum of Art, Newport BeachGroup
2012 – Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family FoundationJoslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NEGroup
2012 – Highlights 2012John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CAGroup
2012 – Summer Group ShowBernard Jacobson Gallery, LondonGroup
2012 – Abstract ExpressionismNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACTGroup
2012 – On Paper: From Baselitz To Warhol KM fine Arts, Chicago, IL Group
2012 – After MayCheryl Hazan Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2012 – Recent AcquisitionsWeatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NCGroup
2012 – Expressions in Color: Selections from the Museum’s 20th Century CollectionKrannert Art Museum, Champaign, ILGroup
2012 – Thanks: 50th Anniversary ExhibitionCarl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OHGroup
2012 – Reconciling OppositesBernard Jacobson Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2012 – Great PrintsReynolds Gallery, Richmond, VAGroup
2012 – Still In ContextWilliam Havu Gallery, Denver, COGroup
2012 – Gallery SelectionsHollis Taggart Galleries, New York City, NYGroup
2012 – You Call This ArtFlorida Gulf Coast University Art Gallery, Fort Myers, FLGroup
2012 – Ulae | Universal Limited Art EditionsGreg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WAGroup
2011 – Fifty Years of Contemporary Prints 1960-2010Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WVGroup
2011 – Helen, Louise & KaraTrinity Gallery, Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GAGroup
2011 – Highlights from the Ernestine and Bradley Wayne CollectionVan Doren Waxter, New York City, NYGroup
2011 – Farbe im Fluss - 20 Jahre WeserburgWeserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, BremenGroup
2011 – Fall Group ShowBernard Jacobson Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2011 – Prints - Contemporary Masters IZane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NMGroup
2011 – The Shape of the ProblemElizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, ORGroup
2011 – Abstract Delight: Selections from the Polly and Mark Addison CollectionCU Art Museum,Boulder, COGroup
2011 – Summer Group ShowBernard Jacobson Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2011 – A Summer of American Masters with Robert Indiana KM fine Arts, Chicago, IL Group
2011 – Abstract Expressionist New YorkArt Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ONGroup
2011 – A View from AboveJohn Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CAGroup
2011 – Gallery SelectionsHollis Taggart Galleries, New York City, NYGroup
2011 – A Sense of Place: Landscapes From Monet to HockneyBellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas, NVGroup
2011 – The Abstract AutographKemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MOGroup
2011 – Abstract Now and ThenBerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM - PFA, Berkeley, CAGroup
2011 – NEW PRINTSZane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NMGroup
2010 – WomenArtists NewBritainMuseumNew Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CTGroup
2010 – Color FieldsDeutsche Guggenheim, BerlinGroup
2010 – A Selection of rarely seen, privately owned, early Abstract Expressionist worksCrane Kalman Gallery, LondonGroup
2010 – American Prints 1965 - 2005Kunsthandel Jörg Maaß, BerlinGroup
2010 – Paintings, Drawings and SculptureJohn Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CAGroup
2010 – Master Prints from the Gallery CollectionLeslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles, CAGroup
2010 – Kenneth Noland, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert MotherwellPace Prints, New York City, NYGroup
2010 – Changing Soil: Contemporary Landscape Painting (Za Fukei)Boston Museum of Fine Arts, NagoyaGroup
2010 – Works from the Gallery CollectionCarl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OHGroup
2010 – Hacia la barriga de un pichónMuseo Tamayo, Mexico CityGroup
2010 – LE GRAND GESTE! - Informel and Abstract Expressionism, 1946-1964Museum Kunstpalast,DusseldorfGroup
2010 – Colorscope: Abstract Painting 1960-1979Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CAGroup
2010 – More Than Life!Pori Art Museum, PoriGroup
2010 – 20TH CENTURY CONTEMPORARY MASTERSZane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NMGroup
2010 – Group Show 2010Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2009 – Cold PressPage Bond Gallery, Richmond, VAGroup
2009 – MOCA´s First Thirty YearsMOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CAGroup
2009 – DIVERSE PROPOSITIONSZane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NMGroup
2009 – Modern and Contemporary MastersBuschlen Mowatt Gallery, Palm Desert, CAGroup
2009 – Group ExhibitionBuschlen Mowatt Gallery, Vancouver, BCGroup
2009 – 1969MoMA PS1, New York City, NYGroup
2009 – American Abstractions Part 2: Paintings 1950’sKatharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2009 – Circa 1959Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2009 – The Passionate Pursuit: Gifts and Promised Works from Donna and Cargill MacMillanPalm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CAGroup
2009 – Influences of Nature on AbstractionTayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, WYGroup
2009 – Blocks of Color: American Woodcuts from the 1890s to the presentJane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJGroup
2009 – In Their Own Right: Contemporary Women PrintmakersThe McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TXGroup
2009 – Lipstick Traces: Women in the CollectionDaum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MOGroup
2009 – Days Lumberyard StudiosACME Fine Art & Design, Boston, MAGroup
2009 – Selections from the Permanent CollectionPalm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CAGroup
2009 – New York CoolBowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, MEGroup
2009 – 1968-69: 40 Years LaterArmand Bartos Fine Art, New York City, NYGroup
2009 – Enacting AbstractionVancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BCGroup
2009 – Action Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NYGroup
2009 – Artists in Their StudiosNorman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MAGroup
2009 – Long Island collectsNassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NYGroup
2009 – Mixografia: Innovation and CollaborationPortland Art Museum, Portland, ORGroup
2008 – Action AbstractionSaint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MOGroup
2008 – Contemporary Masters: Print SelectionsAmy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CTGroup
2008 – The 30th Anniversary – Part IWetterling Gallery, StockholmGroup
2008 – From Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art: Johns, Rauschenberg and the Aesthetic of IndifferenceSonomoa Valley Museum of Art, SonomaGroup
2008 – Color as Field. American Painting 1950-1975Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TNGroup
2008 – Summer Breeze - Seletions from the Contemporary CollectionPhoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZGroup
2008 – Action Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NYGroup
2008 – New York Cool: Paintings and Sculptures from the NYU Art CollectionGrey Art Gallery, NYU,New York City, NYGroup
2008 – The American Evolution - A History through ArtThe Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DCGroup
2008 – Color as Field - American Painting, 1950–1975Smithsonian American Art Museum,Washington, DCGroup
2008 – LIMITED EDITIONS: 20th Century Prints from the Ponderosa CollectionThe Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OHGroup
2008 – Paradigms and the Unexpected: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Shey CollectionSamuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FLGroup
2008 – Action PaintingFondation Beyeler, RiehenGroup
2008 – Contemporary Visions - A Focus on Jacksonville CollectionsMOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FLGroup
2007 – Inaugural Exhibition of New SpaceLoretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2007 – Color as Field - American Painting, 1950–1975Denver Art Museum, Denver, COGroup
2007 – Contemporary, Cool and CollectedMint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NCGroup
2007 – 20th-Century TreasuresNaples Museum of Art, Naples, FLGroup
2007 – Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan MuseumThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NYGroup
2007 – Art for Yale: Collecting for a New CenturyYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CTGroup
2007 – Backstage Pass: Collecting Art in Kansas CityKemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MOGroup
2007 – American IdolsAmy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CTGroup
2007 – Calculation and Impulse: Abstract American PrintsJane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJGroup
2007 – Out of the Crate: New Acquisitions Contessa Gallery, Cleveland, OHGroup
2007 – The New York School- Works from a Private CollectionLyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CTGroup
2007 – This Place is Ours! Recent Acquisitions at the AcademyPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PAGroup
2007 – ULAE: New EditionsLarissa Goldston Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2007 – Breaking the Mold: Selections from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961-1968Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OKGroup
2007 – SIN AND SOULZane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NMGroup
2007 – Contemporary Currents - Selections from the Bank of America CollectionMOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FLGroup
2007 – Drawn from New Orleans: Twentieth-Century Works from Private CollectionsNewcomb Art Gallery, New Orleans, LAGroup
2007 – Lyrical Color: Morris Louis, Gene Davis, Kenneth Noland and the Washington Color SchoolThe Phillips Collection, Washington, DCGroup
2007 – Etching since 1950Davison Art Center, MiddletownGroup
2007 – Collection - SelectionPaul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York City, NYGroup
2006 – Pre-Post: American Abstraction 1940s - 60sVan Doren Waxter, New York City, NYGroup
2006 – Mix MastersAmy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CTGroup
2006 – Summer Selections: Portraits - Places - PerspectivesJack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CAGroup
2006 – Marks of Intention. Abstract Art on Paper 1945-2005The Minneapolis Institute of Arts,Minneapolis, MNGroup
2006 – American MastersLeslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles, CAGroup
2006 – A New Age: American Painting from the 1950s and 1960sUlster Museum, Belfast, Northern IrelandGroup
2006 – Women’s Work: Paintings 1970 - 1990Van Doren Waxter, New York City, NYGroup
2006 – Contemporary Master PrintsJerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NCGroup
2006 – Solos: 20th Anniversary ExhibitionSelby Gallery - Ringling College of Art and Design,Sarasota, FLGroup
2006 – Modern and Contemporary Master PrintsReynolds Gallery, Richmond, VAGroup
2006 – Presses, Pop, and Pomade: American Prints Since the SixtiesThe Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NYGroup
2006 – Red, Yellow, BlueLarissa Goldston Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2005 – New Acquisitions: Part I The ModernsLeslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles, CAGroup
2005 – Acquisitions Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CAGroup
2005 – The Shape of Colour - Excursions in Colour Field Art, 1950-2005Art Gallery of Ontario,Toronto, ONGroup
2005 – Wilder a tribute to the Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles 1965-1979Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2005 – Highlights of the Bradley CollectionMilwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WIGroup
2005 – In Black and WhiteLori Bookstein Fine Art, New York City, NYGroup
2005 – Picasso to Pop Contessa Gallery, Cleveland, OH Group
2005 – Surfing the Century: Twentieth-Century ArtUMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art,Ann Arbor, MIGroup
2005 – Boca Raton collectsBoca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FLGroup
2005 – Clement Greenberg: A Critic’s CollectionKatonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NYGroup
2005 – Out of Site - Selections from the Marsha S. Glazer CollectionArt Museum at U.C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CAGroup
2004 – Great Print Event IIRussell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, ILGroup
2004 – Celebrating the Jewish Contribution to 20th-Century American ArtThe RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RIGroup
2004 – Through American Eyes: Two Centuries of American Art from the Huntington Museum of ArtTaft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OHGroup
2004 – Super-Sized: The Big Print ShowGreg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WAGroup
2004 – Das MoMA in BerlinNeue Nationalgalerie, BerlinGroup
2004 – Picasso to ThiebaudCantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CAGroup
2003 – Great Print EventRussell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, ILGroup
2003 – Classic Works From the 1960sLoretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2003 – Das Recht des BildesKunstmuseum Bochum, BochumGroup
2003 – Selected AquisitiontsJohn Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CAGroup
2002 – Works on PaperThe Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Portland, ORGroup
2002 – Nocturne NocturnalSkoto Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2002 – Black Mountain College: Una aventura americanaMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía,MadridGroup
2002 – An American Legacy, A Gift to New YorkWhitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NYGroup
2002 – Clement Greenberg: A Critic's Collection The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OHGroup
2002 – All American, Part IIVan Doren Waxter, New York City, NYGroup
2002 – The Big Americans - The Art of Collaboration National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACTGroup
2002 – The New York School: Abstract Expressionism and BeyondUMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MIGroup
2002 – Color Field: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, HoustonMFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TXGroup
2002 – Images of NatureMFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MAGroup
2002 – Imagine - Abstract Paintings from the 1970sSpeed Art Museum, Louisville, KYGroup
2001 – Modernism & Abstraction - Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art MuseumWorcester Art Museum, Worcester, MAGroup
2001 – Rotating Group ShowJim Kempner Fine Art, New York City, NYGroup
2001 – Prints by Painters: American AbstractionsHenry Art Gallery, Seattle, WAGroup
2001 – Abstrakter Expressionismus in AmerikaMuseum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, KaiserslauternGroup
2001 – The 1970s: Suites and Portfolios From The Hallmark CollectionsH&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MOGroup
2001 – Motherwell, Nevelson and FrankenthalerHaggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WIGroup
2001 – On Paper IICarnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PAGroup
2001 – Impression To Form - Selected Works From SAM's Tyler Art CollectionSingapore Art Museum,SingaporeGroup
2001 – Garner Tullis – The Art of CollaborationTucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZGroup
2000 – The First Fifty YearsTibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
2000 – Color-Field PaintingMFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MAGroup
2000 – The Cities CollectWalker Art Center, Minneapolis, MNGroup
2000 – The Poetic LandscapeBarbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NYGroup
1999 – American Works on Paper, 1945-1975Hallie Ford Museum of Art (HFMA), Salem, ORGroup
1999 – Primed & Unprimed: Paintings from 60s and 70sVan Doren Waxter, New York City, NYGroup
1999 – Amerikanische Zeichnungen Raab Galerie, BerlinGroup
1999 – Crossing the ThresholdUniversity Art Museum University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NYGroup
1998 – Reflections of MonetMFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MAGroup
1998 – The New York School MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NYGroup
1998 – Peggy Guggenheim: A Centennial CelebrationSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NYGroup
1998 – Elements of the Natural: 1950-1992 MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NYGroup
1998 – Locating Clement Greenberg Davison Art Center, MiddletownGroup
1997 – Etchings of the Twentieth CenturyMargo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CAGroup
1997 – American Images: Twentieth Century Art from the Southwestern Bell ArtThe Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TXGroup
1997 – Thirty-five Years at Crown Point PressThe National Gallery of Art, Washington, DCGroup
1996 – Recent AcquisitionsGreg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WAGroup
1996 – Color Field Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, ViennaGroup
1995 – The Painterly PrintGreg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WAGroup
1995 – Classics by the MastersGreg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WAGroup
1993 – Spheres of influenceWhitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NYGroup
1988 – Made in the sixtiesWhitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NYGroup
1988 – American print renaissance 1958-1988Whitney Museum of American Art - Fairfield County,Stamford, CTGroup
1980 – Three Generations of Twentieth Century American Art: Betty Parsons, Helen Frankenthaler and Lynda BenglisBirmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, ALGroup
1980 – An Exhibition of Important Contemporary Drawings, Paintings and SculptureMargo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CAGroup
1980 – A History of American Art Through PrintmakingMissoula Art Museum MAM, Missoula, MTGroup
1980 – Printed Art - A View of two DecadesMoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NYGroup
COLLECTIONS (selected)
Frankenthaler's work is represented in institutional collections worldwide
Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto; Art Institute of Chicago
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Museum of Fine Art
Boston; Museum of Modern Art New York
National Gallery of Australia Canberra
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York