Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

Cataloguing and maintaining the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation art collection for loans to museum exhibitions and in preparation for a future catalogue raisonne. Curating exhibitions or partnering on curatorial projects advancing the legacy of Helen Frankenthaler and public understanding of her work. Organizing and presenting public programs and events on or related to Frankenthaler's work and to other abstract expressionist artists, as well as the role and responsibilities of artist-endowed foundations.

Processing and maintaining the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation archives and library as a study center to facilitate scholarly research on the artist's work. Publishing and assisting with the publication of catalogues and other scholarly texts on Helen Frankenthaler and her work's relation to other 20th and 21st century artists.organizing and studying the Foundation's collection of prints by Helen Frankenthaler in preparation current and upcoming phases of the Frankenthaler prints for initiative of gifts to university art museums.

Developing and offering programs in conjunction with bennington college's department of visual arts, specifically its museum fellows term, for which the Foundation's offices and study center serve as the new york city hub, and offering other professional development internships for students at bennington college and other academic or nonprofit institutions.conducting and archiving interviews for an oral history program to aid future scholarship on Helen Frankenthaler and the context of her work.

Income from the licensing of the reproduction of and/or publication of Helen Frankenthaler's art constitutes some of the means by which the Foundation currently accomplishes its exempt purpose of supporting Helen Frankenthaler's legacy and promoting greater interest and understanding of the visual arts.