Franz Kline (1910–1962)

FRANZ KLINE (1910–1962)
PA Street Scene (Pennsylvania Mining Town), 1947
Oil on canvas, 15 x 19 in.
Signed and dated (at lower right): FRANZ KLINE 47

RECORDED: Rebecca Finsel and Joel Finsel, Franz Kline in Coal Country (South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2019), pp. 181 illus. in color // Elizabeth Johnson, “Franz Kline’s Roots in Coal and Steel—at Allentown Art Museum,” Artblog (December 21, 2012), illus. in color // Roberta Smith, “Expressionism’s Sooty Anomaly,” The New York Times (March 2, 2013), p. C1 // Robin Rice, “Franz Kline. Review of Franz Kline: Coal and Steel, Allentown Museum of Art,” ARTnews (April 2013), illus. in color

EXHIBITED: 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. 15 illus. in color, 110

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