Over the Thanksgiving weekend of 1973, Helen Frankenthaler conceived of a rare series of 71 ceramic tiles, each uniquely painted and created with David Gil at Beddington Potters in Vermont. In the same year, she had started work on a monumental ceramic tile mural that was commissioned by the North Central Bronx Hospital. When the series of so-called Thanksgiving Day tiles were exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1975, Barbara Rose lauded Frankenthaler as an "experimenter with new media and new techniques.”i Indeed, in these works Frankenthaler remarkably translated the ethereal, suffused effect of her soaked canvases in the domain of ceramics.
