Franz kline6/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Kline's large, gestural, black-and-white canvases established his reputation in 1951 and became synonymous with his name in the public mind. The painting was exhibited in 1943 at the annual exhibition of the National Academy of Design and won the $300 S.J. Although it is stretching it to claim to perceive the roots of his mature Abstract Expressionist work in this small painting, Kline does fill the canvas from bottom to top with hills, and spatial recession is sacrificed to an overall surface of broadly painted forms. The palette seems tinged with soot, buildings cluster insubstantially against the hillside, and even the train is deprived of a sense of power or speed. Palmerton, near Kline's home town of Wilkes-Barre, is portrayed as a dingy, unprosperous hill town. (1941), the artist depicted a rural equivalent of urban bleakness. Nevertheless, the Depression-era themes of city and labor that were important to many WPA artists were adopted by Kline as well when he returned to America and settled in New York City. Died, New York.įrom 1935 to 1938, at a time when many American painters were employed by the Works Progress Administration, Kline was studying in London. 1962, suffered heart attack in February unable to paint. 1961, awarded Flora Mayer Witknowsky Prize at the 64th American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago. Honorable mention, Guggenheim International Award Exhibition. 1960, ten works in Venice Biennale awarded Italian Ministry of Public Instruction Prize June–July, traveled in Italy, then returned to U.S. Five pictures in The New American Painting, circulated in Europe by Museum of Modern Art. 1957, in Eight Americans, Sidney Janis Gallery. 1954, one-man show of large paintings, Institute of Design, Chicago nine paintings included in Twelve Americans, Museum of Modern Art. Summer 1952, taught at Black Mountain College 1953–54, at Pratt Institute night school. 1951, co-organizer of Ninth Street Show, New York. and France at Sidney Janis Gallery, New York. 1950, first one-man exhibition at Egan Gallery, New York also represented in Young Painters in U.S. 1947, continued abstraction with "white paintings." During mid-forties, in contact with Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. ![]() Wallace Truman Prize.ġ946, wife entered Central Islip State Hospital for mental illness recurrent hospitalizations in 1940s and 1950s painted his first abstract work. 19, won the National Academy's annual S.J. 1942, exhibited in National Academy of Design's annual exhibition. 1940–44, exhibited in Washington Square art show. 1931–32, Boston University and night classes at Boston Art Students League. Family moved to Lehighton, Pa., where Kline attended high school. 1919–25, attended Girard College, Philadelphia (free boarding school for fatherless boys). ![]()
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