About this artwork
In 1961 Frankenthaler was only beginning to understand the finer points of printmaking. The most essential of these is that printing reverses the image set on the stone. The title of this print, May 26 Backwards, is a playful acknowledgement that while the artist wrote the numbers in mirror image to compensate for the printing process, she neglected to invert the digits. As a result, 26 appears as 62 in the final print.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Helen Frankenthaler
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Title
- May 26 Backwards
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1961
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Medium
- Color lithograph from three stones on paper
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Dimensions
- Sheet: 78.8 × 56.2 cm (31 1/16 × 22 3/16 in.)
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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
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Reference Number
- 1982.460
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Copyright
- © 2018 Helen Frankenthaler / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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