Heath Lecture in Modern and Contemporary Art: Helen Frankenthaler: Painting Outside the Box

From the venue:

Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011), one of the great painters of the postwar era, combined a radically flowing technique and a daring method of free association with formal logic and compositional rigor. Often appreciated (and subtly dismissed) as lyrical, abstracted landscapes, Frankenthaler's paintings raise thorny questions of gender, art history, narrative, materiality, and improvisation that continue to provoke painters today. Harry Cooper, Bunny Mellon Curator of Modern Art at the National Gallery of Art, will share his thoughts about the artist and her work in a richly illustrated lecture as he prepares a retrospective exhibition to debut in Washington in 2028.

This lecture is free and open to the public, and co-sponsored by the Emory Art History Department and the Michael C. Carlos Museum.