The painter Franz Kline was born in Wilkes-Barre in 1910, and he crafted a more complicated body of work than practically any other artist from Luzerne County. For decades, admirers have circled his ...
Abstract art became “officially” art only in 1952, when Harold Rosenberg wrote a seminal essay published by ARTnews magazine titled “The American Action Painters.” Before that, since after the World ...
It seems strange to say, but to understand the work of one of the most important Abstract Expressionists of the mid-20th century, a revolutionary artist recognized worldwide, it helps to be born in ...
Franz Kline’s ‘Palmerton, PA’ painting from 1941. Among the movers and shakers in New York City’s post-World War II art scene, there are a few artists whose names are synonymous with the Abstract ...
Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven has received a gift of six artworks by abstract expressionists Mark Rothko and Franz Kline, from the collection of late Seattle philanthropists Jane Lang Davis ...
The Yale University Art Gallery recently received a gift from the Friday Foundation of six paintings and drawings by Mark Rothko and Franz Kline — artists who profoundly influenced 20th-century ...
(Farmer Gallery) While at the Black Mountain College (summer of 1952) William McGee (1925-1999) studied with Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) and Franz Kline (1910-1962), both of whom would become major ...
“Hell, half the world wants to be like Thoreau at Walden,” Painter Franz Kline once remarked, “worrying about the noise of the traffic on the way to Boston. The other half use up their lives being ...
Abstract art became “officially” art only in 1952, when Harold Rosenberg wrote a seminal essay published by ARTnews magazine titled “The American Action Painters.” Before that, since after the World ...