Light Year: Six Paintings
by Helen Frankenthaler
The musical composition Light Year consists of six movements — Star Gazing, Stella Polaris, Lunar Valley, Hot Ice, Constellation, and Light Year — each based on a painting by Helen Frankenthaler. The paintings, all acrylic on canvas, are shown below.
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Star Gazing, 1989, 71 1/2 x 144 inches | |
![]() | Stella Polaris, 1990, 96 x 108 inches |
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Lunar Valley,1990, 48 x 96 inches | |
![]() | Hot Ice, 1990, 66 x 111 inches |
![]() | Constellation, 1977, 84 x 108 inches |

Light Year, 1979, 81 3/4 x 55 1/2 inches
Artwork © 2024 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York