Sunset Corner
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Sunset Corner is a 1969 acrylic painting by American artist Helen Frankenthaler.[1] The University of Michigan Museum of Art purchased it in 1973.[1]
In 2018, it was loaned to the Williams College Museum of Art for an exhibition called "Topographies of Color."[2] William Jaeger, writing for the Times Union, called the piece "a large, extraordinary work. . . dominated by a huge cascade of wan brick brown as it flows toward the bottom where other indistinct forms layer and grow in concentration to a kind of horizon. Your eyes want to linger in these last hard horizontal swaths, but you end up returning upward to the translucent dim 'sky' because it is so vast."[2]
From 2018 to 2020, it has been on display at the University of Michigan Museum of Art for all three parts of a series of exhibitions called Abstraction, Color, and Politics, curated by museum director Christina Olsen.[3][4][5][6]