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Franz Kline | |||
| Born
1910 in Wilkes-Barre, PA Died 1962 in New York, NY |
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| untitled, ca. 1957 | ||||
| oil
paint on canvas 27 3/8 x 37 1/8 inches Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection Gift of the William T. Kemper Charitable Trust 1999.14 |
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| Kline was influenced by
his Abstract Expressionist contemporaries, such as Willem de Kooning,
however, he was drawn to express himself primarily through his black and
white series of paintings on canvas and newspaper. The dynamic gesture,
with which he painted the black and white passages as equally important,
spoke to the energy of action painting. He began to add color to his works
in 1958, only a few years before his death. |