±«Óătv Contemporary Art Museum is a 2018 Frankenthaler Prints Initiative Awardee
Wednesday, December 05, 2018

Helen Frankenthaler, Untitled, 1967, screenprint, 25 3/4 x 17 7/8 inches (65.4 x 45.4 cm). Photo credit: Steven Sloman
The ±«Óătv Contemporary Art Museum, part of the Institute for Research in Art at the
±«Óătv College of The Arts, is an awardee of prints by American artist Helen Frankenthaler
as part of a Helen Frankenthaler Foundation initiative to support university museums
in their educational programming.
The Contemporary Art Museum is one of ten university museums nationwide that will
receive ten prints and five to ten related trial proofs, drawn from the Foundationâs
extensive collection of prints by the artist.
The giftsâspanning etching, lithography, monotype or monoprint, pochoir, screenprint,
woodcut, and other techniques, sometimes in combinationâwill reflect the variety of
media Frankenthaler used.
Each museum will also receive a oneâtime grant of $25,000 to develop a project or
program for the study, presentation, and interpretation of the works within a threeâyear
timeframe.
Ruth Fine, former Curator of Special Projects in Modern Art at the National Gallery
of Art in Washington, D.C., and a leading authority on Frankenthalerâs prints, has
selected the prints and is working with the Foundation as an advisor on the multi-year
initiative.
The museums have been selected for their dedicated commitment to prints as a significant
collecting area and teaching tool while having few or no examples of Frankenthalerâs
prints in their collections.
Other Frankenthaler Prints Initiative Awardees include:
âą Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin
âą Bowdoin College Museum of Art
âą Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts/Hammer Museum, UCLA
âą The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
âą Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
âą Princeton University Art Museum
âą RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design
âą SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design
âą Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Helen Frankenthaler (1928â2011), whose career spanned six decades, has long been recognized as one of
the great American artists of the twentieth century, widely credited for her pivotal
role in the transition from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field painting. She produced
a body of work whose impact on contemporary art has been profound and continues to
grow. Her work is represented in the collections of major museums worldwide and has
been the subject of numerous national and international exhibitions and substantial
publications.
The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation was established and endowed by the artist during her lifetime and became active in
2013, on the closing of the artistâs estate. The Foundation supports the artistâs
legacy through a variety of initiatives, including encouraging and facilitating significant
exhibitions of Frankenthalerâs work, grant-making, and the publishing of a catalog
raisonnĂ©. Its holdings include an extensive selection of Frankenthalerâs work in a
variety of mediums, her collection of works by other artists, and original papers
and materials pertaining to her life and work.
±«Óătv Contemporary Art Museum (±«ÓătvCAM) organizes and presents significant and investigative exhibitions of contemporary
art from Florida, the United States and around the world. Serving as a teaching laboratory,
±«ÓătvCAMâs curatorial and socially engaged initiatives and educational programs are
designed to present the students, faculty, and community with current issues of contemporary
art practice, and to explore the role of the arts in society. ±«ÓătvCAM publishes relevant
catalogs, presents critically recognized traveling exhibitions and commissions new
projects by national and international artists. ±«ÓătvCAM maintains the universityâs
art collection, comprising more than 5000 contemporary artworks.