This Morning’s Weather

"This Morning's Weather" is a painting by American Abstract Expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler. Created in 1982, it is characterized by her signature "stain technique," where thinned-down pigments soak into unprimed canvas, creating diaphanous fields of color. While not direct representations of nature, many of Frankenthaler's works, including this one, evoke a strong sense of landscape. She was a key figure in the second generation of Abstract Expressionists and a pioneer of color-field painting, influencing artists like Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland. Her work emphasizes the inherent properties of painting: flatness and color.12