Helen Frankenthaler’s first professionally exhibited work—and her best known— was Mountains and Sea (1952), a soak-stain painting she completed after a road trip. Frankenthaler had traveled to Nova Scotia, and its rugged beauty stuck with her. She would go on to produce many more landscapes of feeling. This show in Bilbao places her powerful abstractions alongside works by her contemporaries. —Elena Clavarino
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Helen Frankenthaler: Painting Without Rules
Helen Frankenthaler in her studio on East 83rd Street, in 1974.
When
Apr 11 – Sept 28, 2025
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Photo: Alexander Liberman; ©J. Paul Getty Trust. Getty ResearchInstitute, Los Angeles (2000.R.19).Artwork © 2024 Helen FrankenthalerFoundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society(ARS), New York