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Franz Kline Biography
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1919 - 1905 |
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Studied Girard College, PA
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1910 |
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Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
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1926 - 1931 |
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Lehighton High School, PA
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1931 - 1932 |
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Studied under Frank Durkee, John Grosman, and Henry Hensche, Boston University
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1936 - 1938 |
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Studied at Heatherley's School of Fine Art, London
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1938 |
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Married Elizabeth Vincent parson
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1939 |
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Moved to New York City
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1952 |
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Tauight at Black Mountain College, North Carolina
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1953 - 1954 |
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Taught at Pratt Institute, New York
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1954 |
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Taught at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art, 1954
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1960 |
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Won the Italian Ministry of Public Instruction Prize, New York, NY
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1962 |
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Died in New York, USA
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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"1945-1949, Repartir a zero, comme si la peinture n'avait jamais existe," Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France
"Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," Washington, D.C. (nationally travelling)
"Synchronies: Undercurrents in Postwar European and American Abstraction," Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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2008
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"New York in the 1940s: Selections from the Collection," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
"Franz Kline," L&M Arts, New York, NY (solo)
"Watercolor, Bodycolor," Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
"Summer Selection," Edward Tyler Nahem, New York, Ny
"Action Painting," Foundation Beyeler, Riehen
"Suitcase Paintings: Small Scale Work by Abstract Expressionists," Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
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2007
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"Arco 2007 Preview," Edward Tyler Nahem, New York, NY
'Taste of Modern," Nasher Museum of Art," Durham, NC
"Drawings, Watercolors and Gouaches: From Toulouse-Lautrec to Freud," Acquavella Galleries Inc., New York, NY
"When Art Worlds Collide: The 1960s," Woodward Gallery, New York, NY
"Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism," Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, NY
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2006
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"Black, Black & White," Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York, NY
"Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
'Plane/Figure," Winterthur Museum, DE
"Modern and Contemporary Masters," Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY
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2005
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"Ecole de New York: Expressionisme Abstrait," Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France
"Vedo Blue," Galleria Edieuropa, Rome, Italy
"American and European Selections," Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY
"Looking at Words," Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
"The Shape of Time," Walker Art Cetner, Minneapolis, MN
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2004
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"Franz Kline: 1910-1962," Museo d'arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (solo)
"From Pollock to Marden: Post-War Works on Paper," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
"Portraits," Esso Gallery and Books, New York, NY
"Picasso to Thiebaud," Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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2003
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"Franz Kline: Paintings from a Private American Collection," Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Franz Kline," L&M Arts, New York, NY
"Staff Selections: Permanent Collection," Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
"Black White," Danese, New York, NY
"Aaron Siskind and others," Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
"A Way with Words," John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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2002
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"Franz Kline: Ink Drawings," McKee Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"An American Legacy, A Gift to New York," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"All American, Part II," Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
"The New York School: Abstract Expressionism and Beyond," UMMA: The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
"The Physical World: An Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture," Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
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2001
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"All American," Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
"Da Kandisky a Pollock," Museo Cantonale d'Arte Lugano, Lugano
"Cold War Modern: The Domesticated Avant-garde," Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
"The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints," Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
"Foundations: Building the Addison's Collection," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
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2000
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"American Abstract Expressionsim," American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich
"Modernism & Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
"Expresionismo Abstracto," Fundacion Juan March, Madrid
"Highlights of Late 20th-Century Art from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
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1999
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"Panza: The Legacy of a Collector," The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
"Drawn from Artists' Collections," The Drawing Center, New York, NY
"Fruits & Flowers, Skies & Pies," Allan Stone Gallery, New York City, NY
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1998
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"Masterworks on Paper from the Collection of George Hopper Fitch," The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
"The New York School," Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
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1996
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"Hans Hofmann and the New York School," Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA
"Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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1994
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"Franz Kline: arte y estructura de la identidad," Fundacion Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
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1988
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"Abstract Work from the 1950s," Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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1986
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"The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline," Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
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1985
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The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (solo)
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1977
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"Art USA," Fundacion Joan Miro, Barcelona
"Art USA," Fundacion Juan March, Madrid
Binghamton/SUNY, Binhamton, NY (solo)
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1975
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David McKee Gallery, New York, NY
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1972
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marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London
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1968
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The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
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1967
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Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York, NY (solo)
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1964
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"Paintings and Suclptures from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Weiner," Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
"Documenta 3," Documenta, Kassel
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England (solo(
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1963
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Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1962
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Gallery Lawrence, Paris, France (solo)
Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
"France Kline Memorial Exhibition," Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C. (solo)
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1961
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Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo)
Collectors Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
New Arts Gallery, Atlanta, GA (solo)
'Ten American Painters," Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
"American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists," The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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1955 - 1961
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The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY
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1960
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Venice Biennial Exhibition of Modern Art, Venice, Italy
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1959
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"Documenta 2," Documenta, Kassel
"The Romantic Agony: From Goya to de Kooning," Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
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1958
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Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
LaTartaruga, Rome (solo)
gallena d'Arte del Navigho, Milan (solo)
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1957
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San Paulo Biennial, Brazil
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1956
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"Large Scale Paintings II," Contemporary Arts Museum Hosuton, Houston, TX
"Twelve Americans," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1955
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"Twelve American Painters and Sculptors," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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1954 - 1955
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'The New Decade," The WHitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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1954
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10th Inter-American Conference, Caracas
Charles Egan Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Institute of Design, Chicago, IL (solo)
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
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1953
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The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY
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1952
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Galerie de France, Paris, France
Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
The Whitney Museum of American Art Annuals and Biennials, New York, NY
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1951
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Charles Egan Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1950
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"Talent 150," Kootz Gallery, New York, NY
Charles Egan Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1944
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National Academy of Design Exhibition
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1943
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National Academy of Design Exhibition
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1942
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The National Academy's Annual Exhibition in New York City
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