DETAILS
- Artist
- Franz Kline
- Date
- 1940
- Medium
- Oil, whitewash and charcoal on cardboard
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- 28 1/4 x 20 1/4 in. (71.8 x 51.4 cm)
- Collection
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Rufus F. Zogbaum, 1998
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Franz Kline
Franz Kline, a pivotal American painter, transformed everyday objects into monumental, dynamic black-and-white abstractions that defined Abstract Expressionism.
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