Corona

Artists

Description

A large, horizontally oriented acrylic on canvas. The dominant ochre/orange color of the background is soaked into the unprimed canvas using Frankenthaler's traditional stain painting technique. Broad areas of green seem to have been applied over the ochre, but with a similarly thin and wash-like paint. The most prominent element in the work is the horizontal strip of yellow impasto that runs across the canvas, about a third of the way up from the bottom. The matte surface is also flecked with other splotches of thicker paint, in gray, pink, and orange.

Dimensions

167.64 x 243.84 cm (66 x 96 in.)

Provenance

Herbert and Mildred Lee, Boston, Massachusetts, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2003.