Persian Garden
Helen Frankenthaler
1965–1966
- Medium
- Color lithograph from three stones on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 65.3 × 50 cm (25 3/4 × 19 11/16 in.)
- Genre
- lithograph
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)lithograph
About
The principal compositional element in Persian Garden was drawn by simply puddling the liquid tusche and letting it flow naturally over the stone’s porous surface. The effect mimics the “soak-stain” technique Frankenthaler had developed in her paintings.
