id: 143392 accession number: 1967.3 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1967.3 updated: 2023-04-26 11:23:55.458000 Accent Grave, 1955. Franz Kline (American, 1910–1962). Oil on canvas; framed: 196 x 136 x 5 cm (77 3/16 x 53 9/16 x 1 15/16 in.); unframed: 191.1 x 131.4 cm (75 1/4 x 51 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Gift 1967.3 © The Franz Kline Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: Accent Grave title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1955 creation date earliest: 1955 creation date latest: 1955 current location: creditline: Anonymous Gift copyright: © The Franz Kline Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: America, 20th century technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Franz Kline (American, 1910–1962) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 196 x 136 x 5 cm (77 3/16 x 53 9/16 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 191.1 x 131.4 cm (75 1/4 x 51 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1967 opening date: 1967-11-29T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1967. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 29-December 31, 1967). title: Franz Kline, 1910-1962 opening date: 1968-10-01T04:00:00 Franz Kline, 1910-1962. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (organizer) (October 1-November 24, 1968). title: Works from the Contemporary Collection opening date: 1969-07-01T04:00:00 Works from the Contemporary Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 1-October 15, 1969). title: Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976 opening date: 1976-03-07T05:00:00 Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (March 7-April 11, 1976); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (May 2-June 13, 1976); The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (July 4-August 15, 1976); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 8-October 10, 1976). title: The Fifties: Painting in New York 1950 - 1960 opening date: 1980-05-22T04:00:00 The Fifties: Painting in New York 1950 - 1960. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., DC (organizer) (May 22-September 21, 1980). title: Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960 opening date: 1987-09-16T04:00:00 Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987). title: Franz Kline: Art and the Structure of Identity opening date: 1994-03-03T05:00:00 Franz Kline: Art and the Structure of Identity. Whitechapel Art Gallery (July 8-September 11, 1994); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÍa (September 27-November 21, 1994). title: Franz Kline (1910-1962): A Survey of Works opening date: 2004-10-18T00:00:00 Franz Kline (1910-1962): A Survey of Works. Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli (Torino), Italy (organizer) (October 18, 2004-January 30, 2005). title: Once Upon a Time in America opening date: 2018-11-23T05:00:00 Once Upon a Time in America. Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Köln, Germany (organizer) (November 23, 2018-March 24, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958-1959: The New American Painting, cat. no. 37, repr. p. 51. * Whitney Museum of American Art, 1968: Retrospective - Work of Franz Kline, October 1-November 30, 1968. * CMA: Works from the Contemporary Collection, July 1-mid-October, 1969 * Buffalo, Albright-Knox Gallery, 1976: Heritage and Horizons: American Paintings 1776-1976, cat. no. 53, repr.
(also to Detroit Institute of Arts, 1976, and Toledo Museum of Art, 1976, and to CMA, 1976. * Washington, DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1980: The Fifties: Painting in New York 1950-1960, cat. no. 35, repr. p. 78. * Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, November 29, 1985-March 2, 1986; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, June 26-October 5, 1986: The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in Retrospect. * CMA, September 16-November 8, 1987: Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960, cat. no. 45, p. 134, repr. * Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy (10/18/2004 - 1/30/2005): "Franz Kline (1910-1962): A Survey of Works", p. 222-223 --- PROVENANCE The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1967– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Although Kline’s paintings look like variations on Asian calligraphy, the artist denied the influence. digital description: wall description: Although Kline's paintings look as if they were executed in a spontaneous burst of activity, they were often painstakingly pre-planned through preliminary studies. Additionally, as in the case of Accent Grave, close inspection reveals passages of reworked areas - white over black and vice-versa - indicating that the final composition was carefully orchestrated. The painting's title derives from the downward sloping black shape in its upper region, which suggests an accent grave in French phonetics. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Museum of Modern Art. The New American Painting, As Shown in Eight European Countries, 1958-1959. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1959. page number: Reproduced: p. 41, cat. no. 37 url: Henning, Edward B. Paths of Abstract Art. Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art: Distributed by H.N. Abrams, NY, 1960. page number: Reproduced: p. 33 url: Sidney Janis Gallery. Kline. New York, NY: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1960. page number: Reproduced: fig. 31 url: "Year in Review." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LIV, no. 12 (December, 1967):302-347. page number: Reproduced: p. 330, fig. 136 url: Henning, Edward B. "Annual Report for 1967: Contemporary Art." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LV, no. 6 (June, 1968):183-184. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 183 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 202 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n226 Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 3 url: https://archive.org/details/20thCenturyArtCMA/page/n3 Henning, Edward B. "Some Modern Paintings." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LVI, no. 2 (February, 1969):55-87. page number: Mentioned: p. 62-68' Reproduced: p.66, back cover url: Wilmerding, John, and R. Peter Mooz. The Genius of American Painting. London, United Kingdom: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973. page number: Reproduced: p. 291 url: Henning, Edward B. "An Important Sculpture by John Chamberlain." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LX, no.10 (October, 1973):243-246. page number: Reproduced: p. 245 url: Henning, Edward B. "Plane, Structure, Color, and Content." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXI, no.9 (September,1974):223-239. page number: Reproduced: p. 234, fig. 22 url: Terada, Tōru. Japanese Art in World Perspective. New York, NY: Weatherhill, 1976. page number: Reproduced: p. 147, fig. 137 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 252 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n272 Lucie-Smith, Edward, Sam Hunter, and Adolf Max Vogt. Kunst der Gegenwart. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Propyläen Verlag, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 154 url: Ball, Victoria Kloss. The Art of Interior Design. New York, NY: Wiley, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 228, fig. 11.25 url: Gaugh, Harry F. The Vital Gesture, Franz Kline: Cincinnati Art Museum. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1985. page number: Reproduced: p. 118, fig. 115; Mentioned: p. 119 url: Landau, Ellen G. "Space and Pictorial Life: Hans Hofmann's Smaragd Red and Germinating Yellow." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXXII no. 9 (September, 1985):310-323. page number: Reproduced: p. 310; Detail: p. 318 url: Hinson, Tim E. "Alex Katz's Impala." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LXXIII no. 8 (October, 1986):314-326. page number: Reproduced: p. 316 url: Henning, Edward B. Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1987. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 134, no. 45 url: Wallock, Leonard, and Dore Ashton. New York, Culture Capital of the World, 1940-1965. New York, NY: Rizzoli, 1988. page number: Reproduced: p. 140, fig. 147 url: Lynton, Norbert. The Story of Modern Art. Oxford, United Kingdom: Phaidon, 1989. page number: Reproduced: p. 237, fig. 209 url: Naylor, Colin, and Leanda Shrimpton. Contemporary Masterworks. Chicago, IL: St. James Press, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 148 url: Kline, Franz, and Stephen C. Foster. Franz Kline: Art and the Structure of Identity. Barcelona, Spain: Fundació Antoni Tàpies, 1994. page number: Reproduced: p. 91, no. 30; Mentioned: p. 200 url: Barbero, Luca Massimo. Carlo Cardazzo: Una Nuova Visione dell'arte. Milano: Electa, 2008. page number: Reproduced: p. 368; Mentioned: p. 371 url: Pola, Francesca. "Carlo Cardazzo verso il futuro, tra Nord Europa e Stati Uniti." In Carlo Cardazzo: una nuova visione dell'arte. Barbero, Luca Massimo, 351-381. Milano: Electa, 2008. page number: Reproduced: p. 369; Mentioned: p. 371 url: Nash, Steven A., and Elizabeth Armstrong. A Passionate Eye: The Weiner Family Collection. Palm Springs, CA: Palm Springs Art Museum, 2015. page number: Mentioned & reproduced: P. 82-83 url: Schaefer, Barbara and Anita Hachmann. Es war einmal in Amerika: 300 Jahre US-Amerikanische Kunst. Köln: Wienand Verlag Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, 2018. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 540-541, cat. 131- url: Museum of Modern Art. The New American Painting, As Shown in Eight European Countries, 1958-1959. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art; distributed by Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1959. page number: Reproduced: p. 51 url: --- IMAGES