Indian Summer
Date
1967
Artist
Helen Frankenthaler, American, b. New York City, 1928–2011
Provenance
Lawence Rubin Gallery, New York, to 1968
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York and Washington, DC, 1 January 1972
Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Exhibition History
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Gravity's Edge," 7 February-15 June 2014, no cat.
PARRISH ART MUSEUM, Watermill, New York. "Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown," 4 August-27 October 2019, color ill. p. 78 (not shown at Provincetown Art Association and Museum).
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960," 22 March 2024-20 April 2025, no cat.
Published References
UNSIGNED. Annual Report: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (1968), p. 222.
ASHTON, DORE. "Retrospective/Perspective 1961-74," Arts Magazine 49 (September 1974), p. 36.
WOMEN'S PROGRAM OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Women Artists: A Checklist of Works in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1979), ill.
ELDERFELD, JOHN. Frankenthaler (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989), p. 198.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 170, p. 187.
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School
Abstract Expressionism (Second Generation)/Formalist Abstraction
On View
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), 2nd Floor
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
72.120
Type
Painting
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions
93 1/2 × 93 5/8 in. (237.5 × 237.8 cm)
