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Franz Kline

Untitled

1954

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Franz Kline

Untitled

1954

Physical Qualities Oil paint on paper, Sheet: 317 x 216 mm. (12 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection
Object Number 1959.175.2
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1959; Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Benesch, NY; Poindexter Gallery, NY
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Inaugural Exhibition-Franz Kline," 14 April-20May 1963; circulated to Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C., 30 October- 27 December 1962, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (21 January-10 March 1963)
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Drawings: 1920-1964," 24 November 1963-21 February 1964.

Baltimore Museum of Art, "Modern Master Drawings from the Museum's Thomas E. Benesch Memorial Collection," 21 February-April 30 1989.

Menil Collection, Houston, "Franz Kline: Black and White, 1950-1961," 8 September- 27 November 1994; circulated to Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (16 December-5 March 1995), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (25 March-4 June 1995).

Darsie Alexander, Baltimore Museum of Art, "Robert Motherwell: Meanings of Abstraction," May 20, 2006-July 30, 2006.

Jay Fisher, BMA Front Room, "Franz Kline," January 21-May 3, 2009.
Art Quarterly, vol. XXIII, no. 1 (Spring 1960), p. 99, illus. p. 110.
BMA News, vol. XXIX, nos. 3-4 (1967), p. 11, illus. p. 16.
"The Thomas Edward Benesch Memorial Collection," BMA, 1970, unpaginated.

Inscribed: lower right verso in black ink: "FRANZ KLINE 55"; upper center verso in black ink: "TOP"; by later hand?, upper center verso in ballpoint pen: "#200"

Artist

Franz Kline

1909–1961

born Wilkes- Barre, PA 1910; died New York, NY 1962
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