Lecture
Avis Berman
Helen Frankenthaler: Voices from the Archives
Wednesday, February 5, 2020, 5:30pm
Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
www.arthurrossgallery.org
Writer and art historian Avis Berman will give a talk on Helen Frankenthaler in conjunction with the exhibition Frankenthaler on Paper at the Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia. Berman will discuss Frankenthaler’s prints and paintings with commentary from the artist herself, as well as her contemporaries, through the use of archival recordings. The event is free and open to the public.
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Helen Frankenthaler, Cedar Hill, 1983 © 2020 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Crown Point Press, Oakland, California
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Dorothy Lichtenstein
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Gagosian Shop, New York
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Roy Lichtenstein: The Impossible Collection (New York: Assouline, 2019)
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New Museum, New York
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Helen Frankenthaler, Reef, 1991 © 2023 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever
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Elizabeth Smith. Photo: Scott Rudd
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