Franz Kline (1910–1962)

FRANZ KLINE (1910–1962)
Pennsylvania Landscape, 1948–49
Oil on canvas, 27 3/4 x 34 1/2 in.
Signed (at lower right): Franz Kline

RECORDED: Rebecca Finsel and Joel Finsel, Franz Kline in Coal Country (South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2019), pp. 196 illus. in color // Robin Rice, “Franz Kline (Review of Franz Kline: Coal and Steel, Allentown Museum of Art)," ARTnews (April 2013) // Roberta Smith, “Expressionism’s Sooty Anomaly,” The New York Times (March 2, 2013), p. C1 illus. in color // Stephan Salisbury, “Franz Kline, An Innovator Who Painted Pennsylvania,” The Philadelphia Inquirer (June 1986) illus.

EXHIBITED: Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C., October 30–December 27, 1962; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, January 21–March 10, 1963; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, April 14–May 20, 1963, Franz Kline Memorial Exhibition, pp. 51 no. 40 // Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York, April 17–July 19, 1982, A Century of Change: From the Great Collections of Long Island // Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, November 27, 1985–March 2, 1986; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, April 17–June 9, 1986; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, June 26–September 28, 1986, The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in Retrospect, pp. 123 fig. 120 illus. in color // Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley, Allentown, Pennsylvania, October 7, 2012–January 13, 2013; Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, February 8–March 5, 2013; Franz Kline: Coal and Steel, pp. 26 fig. 16 illus. in color, pp. 111

EX COLL.: the artist; to I. David Orr (1904–1997), Long Island, New York; to his estate, 1997 until the present