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This is a very large painting. The entire top half of the painting is yellow. The yellow has different shades where the artist soaked the canvas in diluted yellow paint. So you can see the layers of paint building up on the canvas. The very bottom of the painting is a triangular shape of purple, repressing a mountain, then a little sliver of green at the bottom right and a little sliver of white on the bottom left.

“Sun Mountain” by Helen Frankenthaler

Birmingham Museum of Art 2000 Rev. Abraham Woods, Jr. Blvd, Birmingham

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