What series of paintings does "The Scream" belong to?

“The Scream” belongs to Edvard Munch’s series The Frieze of Life.

Munch described the project as “A Poem about Life, Love and Death.” Rather than a single tightly plotted narrative, it was a changing group of paintings, prints, and motifs exploring intense emotional experiences. The themes include love, jealousy, separation, anxiety, illness, sexuality, and death—subjects Munch repeatedly revisited in different forms.

“The Scream” became one of the series’ defining images because its setting and distorted figure express a moment of overwhelming dread. Other associated works include “Madonna,” “Anxiety,” “Ashes,” “The Sick Child,” and “The Dance of Life.” Munch displayed the completed Frieze of Life publicly in Berlin in 1902.

A frequent confusion comes from treating “The Sick Child” as the series name. That is a separate Munch painting and an important early work. “The Dance of Life” is another related title, but it is not the name of the larger cycle. The canonical series title is The Frieze of Life.