Bronze Smoke

Description

Bronze Smoke, along with Altitudes and Door, were the last prints Frankenthaler created at U.L.A.E. until she returned briefly in 2006. Together, these three prints show the artist’s growing fascination with colored paper, both as a ground for the overall composition but also as a border for the image, a fascination that would continue for the remainder of her career.

Bronze Smoke

Helen Frankenthaler

1978

Accession Number

97663

Medium

Color lithograph from two stones on red-brown wove paper

Dimensions

Image: 63.1 × 47.5 cm (24 7/8 × 18 3/4 in.); Sheet: 79 × 56.7 cm (31 1/8 × 22 3/8 in.)

Classification

lithograph

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

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