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Painting with Frame

Photo: Nathaniel Willson

Painting with Frame

1964

Helen Frankenthaler

American, 1928 - 2011

Oil on canvas
36 1/4 x 43 7/8in. (92.1 x 111.4cm)
Gift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
2014.25.23
Provenance: Lewis Cabot (1937-) Boston, Massachusetts; [Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, New York]; purchased from gallery by Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, Washington, 1973
Photo: Nathaniel Willson
location
Not currently on view

Resources

Exhibition HistoryNew York, New York, Barnard College Gallery, Barnard Collects, Sept. 27 - Oct. 31, 1989.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Elles: SAM - Singular Works by Seminal Women Artists, Oct. 6, 2012 - Feb. 17, 2013.

Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, City of Tomorrow: Jinny Wright and the Art That Shaped a New Seattle, Oct. 23, 2020 - Jan. 18, 2021.
Published ReferencesGraves, Jen. "The Great Wright Collection Comes to Seattle Art Museum (and the Marvelous Wright Exhibition Space Closes October 14)." The Stranger Slog, Oct. 6, 2014. http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/10/06/the-great-wright-collection-comes-to-seattle-art-museum-and-the-marvelous-wright-exhibition-space-closes-october-14.

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