Helen Frankenthaler The Moment and the Distance

At the top of my wish list for art books is this tome of Helen Frankenthaler’s largest scaled paintings, which hung together for the first time in decades at Gagosian New York earlier this summer.

The title comes from a 1975 review by poet and critic Barbara Guest, where she remarks on Frankenthaler’s “astonishing combination of freedom with restraint, extravagance with discipline, suggestion and definition,” concluding, “the moment becomes the distance.”