About the Show:
Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975 celebrates the abstract art movement first called Post-Painterly Abstraction and now known as Color Field Painting. American painter Helen Frankenthaler (b. 1928) is credited with pioneering this new technique, in which color gained primacy and became both composition and subject matter. The exhibition covers her influences, the artists she subsequently influenced and, not coincidentally, the rise of acrylic paint--a thin, clear pigment that lends itself splendidly to creating large, pure blocks of color.
Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975 was organized by the American Federation of Arts. It was on view at the Denver Art Museum (November 9, 2007–February 3, 2008), the Smithsonian American Art Museum (February 29–May 26, 2008) and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee (June 20–September 21, 2008).
- Sentinel, 1951Courtesy of the American Federation of Arts; used with permission
- Number 18, 1951Courtesy of the American Federation of Arts; used with permission
- Yellow Hymn, 1954Courtesy of the American Federation of Arts; used with permission
- Floral V, 1959-60Courtesy of the American Federation of Arts; used with permission
- Earthen Bound, 1960Courtesy of the American Federation of Arts; used with permission
- Theta, 1961Courtesy of the American Federation of Arts; used with permission
- Chi Ama, Crede, 1962Courtesy of the American Federation of Arts; used with permission
- Cleopatra Flesh, 1962Courtesy of the American Federation of Arts; used with permission
- Han-San Cadence, 1963Courtesy of the American Federation of Arts; used with permission
- Orange Centre, 1964Courtesy of the American Federation of Arts; used with permission
- Tin Lizzie Green, 1964Courtesy of the American Federation of Arts; used with permission
- Moultonville II, 1966 Courtesy of the American Federation of Arts; used with permission
- Graphic Index
- Text Index
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