About this artwork
Savage Breez frustrated Frankenthaler more than any other print she produced at Universal Limited Art Editions (U.L.A.E.). She recalled:
Savage Breeze went dead like a lead balloon. So after many tries, I finally said, let’s scratch it. I was almost exasperated. I couldn’t get the light I desired. I knew the drawing was right. I knew the scale was right. Then I thought—why don’t we whitewash the paper first and then print the other colors I’d mixed over it. We did. And it glowed.
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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
- Savage Breeze
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1974
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Medium
- Color woodcut from eight lauan mahogany plywood blocks on buff laminated Nepalese paper
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Dimensions
- Sheet: 79.9 × 67.8 cm (31 1/2 × 26 3/4 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
- 1982.490
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Copyright
- © 2018 Helen Frankenthaler / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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