Radius
| Artist | Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928–2011) |
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| Title | Radius |
| Date | 1992–1993 |
| Medium | Color woodcut and blind embossing on hand-dyed paper |
| Dimensions | Image: 28 x 28 in. (71.12 x 71.12 cm) Sheet: 28 x 28 in. (71.12 x 71.12 cm) Framed (Exhibition Frame): 33 1/8 x 33 1/8 x 1 1/2 in. (84.14 x 84.14 x 3.81 cm) |
| Credit Line | Gift of Joan & Walter E. Wolf, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University |
| Accession Number | 2018.22 |
| This artwork is currently off display. You may be able to see this artwork by filling out an art viewing room request. | |
This abstract image features bright shades of green swirling in a circular formation on an off-white background. The green is accented by a stripe of yellow near the bottom, a patch of pink at the top, and three small spots of red, including one at the center of the green circular area.
One of the few women to gain fame as an Abstract Expressionist or Color-field artist, Helen Frankenthaler is recognized not only for her large color-stained canvases, but also for her skillfulness in translating her lyrical, painterly style into the printmaking medium. For this complex print, she used six woodblocks and hand-dyed paper pulp sprayed through stencils to create an illusion of fluidity, in which the colors swirl around a red dot with the exception of a single, yellow horizontal line. Although her works are non-representational, their allusion to landscapes, particularly under stormy weather conditions, has led to comparisons with the later work of the English Romantic artist J.M.W. Turner.
| Publisher | Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford, New York |
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| Printer | Ken Tyler |
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"Radius | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=2018.22