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accession number: 1967.3
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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
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creation date: 1955
creation date earliest: 1955
creation date latest: 1955
current location: 227 Abstract Expressionism
creditline: Anonymous Gift
copyright: © The Franz Kline Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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culture: America
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Franz Kline (American, 1910–1962) - artist
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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.)
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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. Buffalo AKG Art Museum, 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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958-1959: The New American Painting, cat. no. 37, repr. p. 51.', 'opening_date': '1958-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Whitney Museum of American Art, 1968: Retrospective - Work of Franz Kline, October 1-November 30, 1968.', 'opening_date': '1968-10-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA: Works from the Contemporary Collection, July 1-mid-October, 1969', 'opening_date': '1969-10-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Buffalo, Albright-Knox Gallery, 1976: Heritage and Horizons: American Paintings 1776-1976, cat. no. 53, repr.', 'opening_date': '1976-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': '(also to Detroit Institute of Arts, 1976, and Toledo Museum of Art, 1976, and to CMA, 1976.', 'opening_date': '1976-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Washington, DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1980: The Fifties: Painting in New York 1950-1960, cat. no. 35, repr. p. 78.', 'opening_date': '1950-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': '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.', 'opening_date': '1986-06-26T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA, September 16-November 8, 1987: Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960, cat. no. 45, p. 134, repr.', 'opening_date': '1987-09-16T00:00:00'}
* {'description': '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', 'opening_date': '2004-10-18T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1967–
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RELATED WORKS
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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
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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
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Sidney Janis Gallery. Kline. New York, NY: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1960.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 31
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"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
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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
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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
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Wilmerding, John, and R. Peter Mooz. The Genius of American Painting. London, United Kingdom: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973.
page number: Reproduced: p. 291
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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
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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
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Terada, Tōru. Japanese Art in World Perspective. New York, NY: Weatherhill, 1976.
page number: Reproduced: p. 147, fig. 137
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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
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Ball, Victoria Kloss. The Art of Interior Design. New York, NY: Wiley, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: p. 228, fig. 11.25
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lynton, Norbert. The Story of Modern Art. Oxford, United Kingdom: Phaidon, 1989.
page number: Reproduced: p. 237, fig. 209
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Naylor, Colin, and Leanda Shrimpton. Contemporary Masterworks. Chicago, IL: St. James Press, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 148
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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
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Barbero, Luca Massimo. Carlo Cardazzo: Una Nuova Visione dell'arte. Milano: Electa, 2008.
page number: Reproduced: p. 368; Mentioned: p. 371
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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