Helen Frankenthaler and Tyler Graphics, Inc.
Madame Butterfly
1999
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Color woodcut on three sheets of joined paper, Sheet: 1060 × 2020 mm. (41 3/4 × 79 1/2 in.)
Framed: 47 1/2 × 85 1/2 × 3 in. (120.7 × 217.2 × 7.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Nancy L. Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff, Baltimore
Object Number
2023.195
102-color woodcut printed from 48 woodblocks (30 birch, 14 maple, 1 lauan, 1 fir) on three sheets of joined paper; Project supervision by Kenneth Tyler. Papermaking by Tom Strianese and Michael Mueller. Woodblock preparation by Yasuyuki Shibata. Proofing and edition printing by Shibata.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2023; Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff, Baltimore
BMA, "A Life Lived through Art: The Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff Collection," April 3 - April 21, 2024.
Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "HF"
Artist
Helen Frankenthaler
1927–2010
born New York, NY 1928; died Darien, CT 2011
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