About the Artwork
Essence Mulberry
1977
Helen Frankenthaler (Artist) American, 1928-2011 Kenneth Tyler (Printer) American Tyler Graphics Ltd. (Publisher) American
Woodcut printed in color ink on handmade paper
Image: 39 1/2 × 19 inches (100.3 × 48.3 cm) Sheet: 39 1/2 × 19 inches (100.3 × 48.3 cm) Framed: 45 × 24 × 1 3/4 inches (114.3 × 61 × 4.4 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Drawing and Print Club Fund
F78.5
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Markings
Signed and dated, in pencil, lower right corner of the sheet: frankenthaler '77
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner of sheet: 6/46
Drystamp, lower right corner: [Publisher's]
Provenance
1973-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Gilmour, Pat, and Kenneth E. Tyler. Tyler Graphics Catalogue Raisonné 1974-1985, New York, 1987, p. 131.
Tallman, Susan. The Contemporary Print from Pre-Pop to Postmodern. London, 1996, p. 164, pl. 208 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Helen Frankenthaler, Essence Mulberry, 1977, woodcut printed in color ink on handmade paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Drawing and Print Club Fund, F78.5.
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