Deep Sun

© Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York

Deep Sun

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Deep Sun,

1983

Helen Frankenthaler, 1928–2011; born New York, NY; died Darien, CT; active New York
Printed and published by Tyler Graphics Ltd. , Bedford Village, New York, founded 1974
2019-86
Frankenthaler combined a variety of techniques in her printmaking to produce diaphanous layers of color that recall the effects she had developed in her paintings by pouring pigment directly onto raw canvas. This work marked Frankenthaler’s first experimentation with mezzotint,
a process popularized in the eighteenth century for its ability to produce subtle gradations of black ink. In addition to black, she built up swaths of yellow, orange, and red using twentytwo different colors, each applied with a separate printing plate. Some of these colors extend to the edge of the paper, imitating the way poured paint diffuses to create fields of color with unpredictable boundaries.
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Exhibition: Helen Frankenthaler Prints Celebrating a Transformative Gift

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Title
Deep Sun
Dates

1983

Maker
Helen Frankenthaler
Printed and published by Tyler Graphics Ltd. , Bedford Village, New York
Medium
Color etching, soft-ground etching, aquatint, spitbite aquatint, drypoint, engraving and mezzotint
Dimensions
plate: 61 × 66 cm (24 × 26 in.) sheet: 76.2 × 102.9 cm (30 × 40 1/2 in.) frame: 114.3 × 88.3 × 5.4 cm (45 × 34 3/4 × 2 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation
Object Number
2019-86
Place Made

North America, United States, New York, Bedford Village

Inscription
Numbered signed and dated in graphite below plate: at left, AP 6/16; at right, Frankenthaler '83
Reference Numbers
HB 119
Culture
American
Type
etchings, prints
Techniques
etching (printing process), aquatint, drypoint, mezzotint
Subject
stripes, suns, abstraction

The artist; her estate; The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation; gifted to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2019.

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