First Stone

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Helen Frankenthaler

Title

First Stone

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1961

Medium

Lithograph from one stone, with additions in black ink on recto and verso, on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

Image, recto: 39 × 63 cm (15 3/8 × 24 13/16 in.); Image, verso: 39 × 66.4 cm (15 3/8 × 26 3/16 in.); Sheet: 66.1 × 101.4 cm (26 1/16 × 39 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

U.L.A.E. Collection acquired through a challenge grant of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dittmer; purchased with funds provided by supporters of the Department of Prints and Drawings; Centennial Endowment; Margaret Fisher Endowment Fund

Reference Number

1982.459a

Copyright

© 2018 Helen Frankenthaler / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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