Blue Jay
Artist: Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928-2011)
Date: 1963
Dimensions:
Painting: 44 3/16 × 64 1/8 in. (112.2 × 162.9 cm)
Frame: 45 1/2 × 65 1/4 × 2 in. (115.6 × 165.7 × 5.1 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas.
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of The Woodward Foundation
Object number: 1977.52
Label Text:
Abstract Expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler was a significant participant in the postwar American art scene, rising to prominence in the 1950s. By the 1960s, Frankenthaler increasingly utilized a technique she referred to as “soak stain,” achieved by painting directly onto an unprimed canvas with turpentine-diluted oil paints. The effect of the soak stain technique is a flat, almost watercolor-like appearance, as seen in Blue Jay.
Abstract Expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler was a significant participant in the postwar American art scene, rising to prominence in the 1950s. By the 1960s, Frankenthaler increasingly utilized a technique she referred to as “soak stain,” achieved by painting directly onto an unprimed canvas with turpentine-diluted oil paints. The effect of the soak stain technique is a flat, almost watercolor-like appearance, as seen in Blue Jay.
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