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Helen Frankenthaler and Tyler Graphics, Inc.

Madame Butterfly

1999

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Madame Butterfly

1999

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
Dorman Mazaroff Memorial Exhibition

Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "HF"

Artist

Helen Frankenthaler

1927–2010

born New York, NY 1928; died Darien, CT 2011
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Printer/Publisher

Tyler Graphics, Inc.

2000–2000

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