Helen Frankenthaler
Spring/Summer 2026 breathes billowing movement, featherlight textures, and ethereal colors born from Helen Frankenthaler’s atmospheric paintings. Three of her selected works—“Western Dream” (1957), “Moontide” (1968), and “Nature Abhors a Vacuum” (1973)—are translated across eveningwear and tailoring in a seminal collaboration with the artist’s foundation.
A pivotal figure in postwar abstraction, Frankenthaler bridged Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting, inviting us to see differently—to find movement in stillness, emotion in color, and meaning in form.
“A line is a line, but [also] is a color… What a lie, what trickery—how beautiful is the very idea of painting.”—Helen Frankenthaler
Moontide
Acrylic on canvas, 1968.
Nature Abhors A Vacuum
Acrylic on canvas, 1973.
Western Dream
Oil on unsized, unprimed canvas, 1957.
Born and raised in New York City, Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) transformed the language of modern art with her lyrical use of color and her groundbreaking soak-stain technique. She poured thinned paint onto raw canvases unfurled across the floor, letting the pigment soak into the fibers for a luminous, stained effect.
Frankenthaler extended her vision beyond the canvas by designing sets and costumes for England’s Royal Ballet. Her translucent, sunset hues and gestural brushstrokes found life on the form, celebrated in the SS26 campaign captured at UOVO Art Storage amid floating expanses of her work.
