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Co-curator Stephanie S.E. Lee explores two Helen Frankenthaler works, revealing unexpected links to music, literature, and collaboration.

Join us in the gallery for a talk with Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper co-curator Stephanie S.E. Lee, Belle da Costa Greene Curatorial Fellow at the Morgan Library & Museum and 2024–25 Block Museum Art History Graduate Fellow.

This event kicks-off the exhibition with an in-depth look at two of Frankenthaler’s works created more than a decade apart: Divertimento (1983) and Tales of Genji (1998). Together, we’ll explore how close looking at these works reveals surprising connections—to Italian classical music, an 11th-century Japanese novel, and the spirit of artistic collaboration that shaped Frankenthaler’s process.

Image:  Frankenthaler at work in her studio in 1969. Ernst Haas Hulton Archive/ Courtesy Helen Frankenthaler Foundation and Getty Images.