Two large paintings, one in red ... with an uneasy contemporary sense of the tragic.” Anfam, David. “Franz Kline” Grove Encyclopedia of American Art.(Oxford University Press, 2011).

An unnamed buyer bid $40.4 million Wednesday at Christie’s in New York for a huge 1957 untitled painting by the American abstract expressionist Franz Kline -- more than six times higher than had ...

Participants will learn about Franz Kline (1910 –1962), an American painter ... a living as a painter before becoming famous for his large black and white paintings bearing abstract motifs.

Abstract art became “officially” art only in 1952, when Harold Rosenberg wrote a seminal essay published by ARTnews magazine titled “The American Action Painters.” Before that, since after the World ...

“Hell, half the world wants to be like Thoreau at Walden,” Painter Franz Kline once remarked, “worrying about the noise of the traffic on the way to Boston. The other half use up their lives ...

This documentary offers an intimate look at the life and legacy of American abstract expressionist Franz Kline. Through personal memories and reflections from those who knew him—such as fellow ...

If you could own any work of art, what would it be? A Franz Kline, because it would fit perfectly in my house. I’d happily accept a loan. What was last playing on your TV? Probably a children ...

If you wander through New York’s Museum of Modern Art, you’ll eventually come across Painting Number 2 by Franz Kline, a set of thick, unruly black lines on a white canvas. Elsewhere ...