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Join Kira Godoroja-Prieckaerts, Kenneth E Tyler Assistant Curator, International Prints and Drawings, for a close look at works by Helen Frankenthaler in the exhibition Proofs and Processes: The Kenneth E Tyler Collection.Helen Frankenthaler, best known as a painter, had an exceptional influence on twentieth-century printmaking. Her printmaking practice began in 1961 with lithography, and through the following decades she expanded into screenprint, etching, pochoir and woodcut. The exhibition features her Reflections series, 12 lithographs published in 1995, and Madame Butterfly, a substantial three-sheet woodcut published in 2000.
Proofs and Processes displays work from the Tyler Graphics: catalogue raisonné, 1986-2001 by six artists: Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Mitchell, Robert Motherwell, James Rosenquist and Frank Stella. It draws from the Kenneth E. Tyler Collection and associated archive to share insights into how their complex works were made and demonstrates how artists tested and refined ideas through the proofing process. Together these works tell the broader story of technical innovation and artistic exploration that defined Tyler Graphics.
Proofs & Processes: The Kenneth Tyler Collection is on display in Gallery 13 until 28 Jun 2026.
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National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
