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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1959.17
People
Franz Kline, American (Wilkes-Barre, PA 1910 - 1962 New York, NY)
Title
Composition
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1952
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228206

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
136.8 x 86 cm (53 7/8 x 33 7/8 in.)
framed: 138.8 x 88 x 4.5 cm (54 5/8 x 34 5/8 x 1 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: Inscr. on back: Franz Kline Egan Gallery

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Egan Gallery, New York, New York]. G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1959.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. G. David Thompson, in memory of his son, G. David Thompson, Jr., Class of 1958
Copyright
© The Franz Kline Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1959
Object Number
1959.17
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Joseph T. Butler, "The American Way with Art", The Connoisseur, Connoisseur (September 1972), p. 54, fig. 3
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 159, ill.
  • John Wilmerding, ed., The Genius of American Painting, William Morrow & Company (New York, 1973), ill. p. 291
  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, p. 112, fig. 109
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), p. 205, cat. 235, ill.

Exhibition History

  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • New York School: From the First Generation, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/10/1975 - 01/06/1976
  • Modern Art at Harvard, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/21/1985 - 01/05/1986

Verification Level

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