Franz Kline (1910–1962)

FRANZ KLINE (1910–1962)
Ninth Avenue EL, 1940
Oil on board, 16 x 12 in. 
Signed and dated (at lower left): FRANZ KLINE / 40

EXHIBITED: Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C., October 30–December 27, 1962; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Masschusetts, January 21–March 10, 1963; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, April 14–May 20, 1963, Franz Kline Memorial Exhibition, p. 49 no. 4 // 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. 47 fig. 37 illus. in color, 110 as “Ninth Avenue Elevated RR Station at Christopher Street”

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