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Photo Credit: John Schweikert

Artist
Title

Summer of Apollo in Provincetown, Mass.

Date
1969
Century
20th century
Medium & Support
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 18 x 14 in. , Frame: 18 3/8 x 14 1/4 in.
Style
Abstract Expressionism
Object Type
Paintings
Credit Line
Gift of Joyce Cole
Accession Number
2002.19.21
Copyright
In Copyright
© Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
ON VIEW
Description

Stain painting with red, blue and yellow pigment on raw canvas.

Label History

Frankenthaler’s first stay in Provincetown was in summer 1950, when, at the suggestion of the critic Clement Greenberg, she studied for three weeks with the renowned artist Hans Hofmann. He taught that a painter’s experience of the world should come through color, and Provincetown’s seaside environment became a significant inspiration for her work. In the early 1960s, Frankenthaler began to experiment with acrylics to create diaphanous, color-soaked arrangements. This technique became one of the defining elements of her creative output throughout her career. This intimately scaled painting shows Frankenthaler in full command of her painterly language, a fusion of the physical observation of nature, emotions, and the formal language of gesture, color, and composition.

Exhibition Title: Asheville Art Museum: An Introduction to the Collection
Label Date: 2021
Type: Catalogue Entry
Written by: Terrie Sultan

Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:

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