Contentment Island
2004
A luminous abstract screenprint featuring Frankenthaler's signature stain technique translated to print. The composition is dominated by ethereal turquoise and teal tones with subtle gestural marks and layered translucent forms. Edition 83 of 118, this work exemplifies Frankenthaler's later mastery of printmaking and her ability to create atmospheric color field compositions.
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- Screenprint
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- 83 of 118
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Morris Louis
American · b. 1912
Louis adopted a nearly identical soak stain technique after seeing Frankenthalers work, pouring thinned acrylic paint onto unprimed canvas to create luminous color field compositions with the same translucent, fabric absorbed quality visible here.
Kenneth Noland
American · b. 1924
Noland shared Frankenthalers direct application of stained color onto raw canvas, producing vibrant post war color field paintings where pigment and surface merge with the same lyrical abstraction and saturated hue relationships seen in this work.
Sam Gilliam
American · b. 1933
Gilliam extended the color staining tradition Frankenthaler pioneered, pouring and pooling paint across large unprimed canvases to achieve similarly dreamlike atmospheric color washes with the same gestural fluidity and vibrant chromatic expressiveness.
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