About this artwork
In developing White Portal, Frankenthaler was most concerned with how best to highlight the delicacy of the central white tusche banner. She tried printing on vibrant-hued papers, but ultimately decided to print the form on a solid field of beige ink. Over thirty trial proofs were pulled and set aside, to be used later in Silent Curtain, before White Portal was finally published.
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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
- White Portal
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1967
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Medium
- Color lithograph from five stones, with graphite on ivory wove paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 48.5 × 37 cm (19 1/8 × 14 5/8 in.); Sheet: 65 × 49.6 cm (25 5/8 × 19 9/16 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
- 1982.467g
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Copyright
- © 2018 Helen Frankenthaler / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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