id: 136571 accession number: 1961.134 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.134 updated: 2025-02-09 02:28:20.627000 Black and White, 1954. Franz Kline (American, 1910–1962). Oil on yellow-beige wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper; sheet: 31.7 x 25.2 cm (12 1/2 x 9 15/16 in.); secondary support: 32.4 x 26 cm (12 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1961.134 © The Franz Kline Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: Black and White title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1954 creation date earliest: 1954 creation date latest: 1954 current location: creditline: Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art copyright: © The Franz Kline Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: America technique: oil on yellow-beige wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper department: Drawings collection: DR - American 20th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Franz Kline (American, 1910–1962) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 31.7 x 25.2 cm (12 1/2 x 9 15/16 in.); Secondary Support: 32.4 x 26 cm (12 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: yellow-beige wove paper, laid down on cream(3) wove paper (discolored) watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, lower right, in graphite: kline translation: remark: inscription: verso of secondary support, signed, across top, in black ink: franz kline translation: remark: inscription: by artist, center left, in black ink: [arrow] / Top [underlined] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review (1961) opening date: 1961-11-01T05:00:00 Year in Review (1961). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 1-26, 1961). title: Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations opening date: 1976-01-23T05:00:00 Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (January 23-March 21, 1976). title: Brush Drawings opening date: 1981-03-03T05:00:00 Brush Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 3-May 10, 1981). title: America Draws opening date: 1984-12-28T05:00:00 America Draws. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1984-March 17, 1985). title: The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in Retrospect opening date: 1985-11-27T05:00:00 The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in Retrospect. The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (November 27, 1985-March 2, 1986); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA (June 26-September 28, 1986). title: Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions opening date: 1989-10-26T04:00:00 Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions. Terra Museum of American Art (January 23-March 11, 1990); Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ (organizer) (March 25-June 13, 1990). title: Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988 opening date: 1991-04-02T05:00:00 Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991). title: American Drawings from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1998-04-19T00:00:00 American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Sidney Janis Gallery, New York) date: after 1954-by 1957 footnotes: citations: (Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: after 1957-1961 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1961- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review 1961." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 48, no. 9 (1961) page number: url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142473. Richards, Louise S. "Three Contemporary Drawings." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 3 (March 1962): 55-59. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 58-59 url: Klee, Paul, Pavel Tchelitchew, Franz Kline, and Louise S. Richards. "Three Contemporary Drawings." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 49, no. 3 (1962) page number: url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25142499. Henning, E.B. "Two New Contemporary Sculptures." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54 (September 1967): 219-227. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 223 url: Henning, E.B. "Some Modern Paintings: Franz Kline Accent Grave." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56 (February 1969): 62-68. page number: Mentioned: p. 62; Reproduced: p. 63 url: Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations. Exh. Cat. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1976. page number: Mentioned: p. 73, no. 116 url: Meder, Joseph. The Mastery of Drawings. Vol. 2. New York: Abaris Books, 1978. page number: Mentioned: p. 302; Reproduced: pl. 309 url: Gaugh, Harry F. The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in Retrospect. Exh. Cat. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1985. page number: Mentioned: p. 160; Reproduced: pl. 160 url: Wechsler, Jeffrey. Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions. Exh. Cat. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 45, no. 53 url: DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned: pp. 272-273, p. 298; Reproduced: p. 273 url: --- IMAGES