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Franz Kline

Studio Shapes

Maker

Franz Kline (American, 1910-1962)

Title

Studio Shapes

Year

1951

Medium

  • Oil paint on newsprint

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Oil paint on newsprint

Materials

oil paint

Supports

  • newspaper mounted on canvas

Dimensions

81 x 63.2 cm (31 7/8 x 24 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signature: Signed on reverse:FRANZ KLINE

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Albert Pilavin Memorial Collection of 20th-Century American Art: Gift of Roy Neuberger

Object Number

70.008

Type

  • Paintings

Publications

  • Books

The Albert Pilavin Collection: Twentieth-Century American Art, II

CIRC copy gift of Murray S. Danforth, Jr. ; Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Caroll Silver

Exhibition History

The New York School
Aaron Siskind in Context
Nov 07, 2003 – Jan 25, 2004

Label copy

Siskind and Kline became close friends in the late 1940s. They lived across the street from one another in New York’s Greenwich Village.

A person like Franz - we respected each other....Certain elements of his work were ones that I had already developed, see? And when he carried it further in his own work it affected me as well. We were the same kind of people. We were little people. We were very loving people but we were also a little macho inside. And we were both developing. Developing was very important.

(Siskind, from an interview for the oral history project “Mark Rothko and His Times,” Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C., October 2, 1982.)

Siskind celebrated his great admiration for the gesture in Kline’s work in a series of photographs begun around 1960, but which he focused upon most intently in the 1970s. An example from the series “Homage to Franz Kline” currently hangs in the Museum’s Works on Paper Gallery.

New York School Abstraction
Nov 09, 2001 – Feb 17, 2002
Albert Pilavin Collection
Twentieth Century American Art II
Oct 23, 1973 – Nov 25, 1973

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Franz Kline (American, 1910-1962)
Studio Shapes, 1951
Oil paint on newsprint
81 x 63.2 cm (31 7/8 x 24 7/8 inches)
Albert Pilavin Memorial Collection of 20th-Century American Art: Gift of Roy Neuberger 70.008

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