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Buzzards Bay

1959

Helen Frankenthaler

American, 1928 - 2011

Oil on canvas
59 5/8 x 45 in. (151.5 x 114.3 cm)
Gift of Sidney and Anne Gerber
65.182
Provenance: {Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York]; purchased by Anne (1910-2005) and Sidney Gerber (d.1965), Seattle, Washington, likely 1959; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 1965
location
Not currently on view

Media

For SAM's My Favorite Things series in 2017, artist Sam Vernon discusses Helen Frankenthaler's Buzzards Bay.

Resources

Exhibition HistoryNew York, New York, Andre Emmerich Gallery, Helen Frankenthaler, 1959.

Peoria, Illinois, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, American Women: 20th Century, Sept. 15 - Oct. 29, 1972. Cat. no. 23, pp. 34, 71.

Washington, D.C., Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 20th Century Painting From Collections In The State Of Washington, dates unknown, 1966.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver Art Gallery, The Seattle Art Museum Lends, Mar. 13 - Apr. 11, 1976. No cat. no., reproduced.

San Jose, California, San Jose Museum of Art, Post-War Modernism, Nov. 4 - Dec. 31, 1977.

Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Contemporary American Art: A Portland Perspective, Nov. 28 1984 - Jan. 20, 1985.

Tampa, Florida, Tampa Museum of Art, At The Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes, Dec. 9, 1989 - Feb. 25, 1990 (Vero Beach, Florida, Center for the Arts, May 4 - June 17, 1990; Virginia Beach, Virginia, Center for the Arts, July 8 - Sept. 2, 1990; Little Rock, Arkansas Arts Center, Nov. 8, 1990 - Jan. 6, 1991.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, International Abstraction: Making Painting Real, May 2, 2003 - Feb. 29, 2004.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Modernism and Craft, Part 1, Mar. 16, 2013 - Mar. 16, 2014.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Elles: SAM - Singular Works by Seminal Women Artists, Oct. 6, 2012 - Feb. 17, 2013.
Published ReferencesHudson, Andrew. "A 'Freshness of Eye' Wafted in From the West Coast." The Washington Post (1966).

San Jose Museum of Art, "Post War Modernism, American Series" San Jose: San Jose Museum of Art, 1978

Vaughan, William, "Encyclopedia of Artists" New York: Oxford University Press, 2000

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