id: 136571
accession number: 1961.134
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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
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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
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: oil on yellow-beige wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper
department: Drawings
collection: DR - American 20th Century
type: Drawing
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CREATORS
* Franz Kline (American, 1910-1962) - artist
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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.)
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description: yellow-beige wove paper, laid down on cream(3) wove paper (discolored)
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inscriptions:
inscription: signed, lower right, in graphite: kline
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remark:
inscription: verso of secondary support, signed, across top, in black ink: franz kline
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inscription: by artist, center left, in black ink: [arrow] / Top [underlined]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review (1961)
opening date: 1961-11-01T04:00:00
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 (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: 1991-04-02T04:00:00
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 (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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Sidney Janis Gallery, New York)
date: after 1954-by 1957
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(Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
date: after 1957-1961
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1961-
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fun fact:
Kline often worked with cheap, plentiful paper, such as telephone pages.
digital description:
Known for his abstract paintings of bold interlocking forms in black and white paint, Franz Kline made many drawings, using the medium to work out his ideas quickly. Once he discovered a compelling image through this process. he worked directly from it to create a painting. This sheet does not directly correspond to a canvas, although it is generally related to a work from 1961. Its title was probably assigned by the artist's gallery, as he typically left his works untitled.
wall description:
Known for his abstract paintings of bold interlocking forms in black and white paint, Kline used drawings as a way to work out his ideas quickly, and he made drawings in large quantities. He would then find a drawing that interested him and work directly from it to create a painting. This work does not correspond to any of Kline's paintings, but it has a strong structural presence, with a long horizontal at the top spanning the width of the paper supported by the broad vertical form underneath it, all made up of numerous fluid black strokes. One of Kline's statements seems especially appropriate: "I think that if you use long lines, they become-what could they be? The only thing they could be is either highways or architecture or bridges."
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review 1961." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 48, no. 9 (1961)
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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Twentieth-Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations. Exh. Cat. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1976.
page number: Mentioned: p. 73, no. 116
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Meder, Joseph. The Mastery of Drawings. Vol. 2. New York: Abaris Books, 1978.
page number: Mentioned: p. 302; Reproduced: pl. 309
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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
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Wechsler, Jeffrey. Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions. Exh. Cat. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 45, no. 53
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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
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