Title: Franz Kline, Art and the Structure of Identity Exhibition Poster, 1994
Artist: Franz Kline
Year: 1994
Medium Type: Poster | paper
Frame: Unframed

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Franz Kline
American, 1910–1962

Franz Kline’s large-scale canvases, which feature muscular, calligraphic bolts of black paint over white fields, have become icons of mid-20th-century Abstract Expressionism. Kline helped pioneer the movement alongside artists including Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Joan Mitchell. Before Kline solidified his trademark style, he made smaller-scale studies; after seeing one of them projected onto a wall at de Kooning’s studio, he realized his compositions were suited to grander proportions. Kline studied painting and drawing at Boston University before pursuing drafting and illustration at the Heatherley School of Fine Art in London. These specialties helped inform his early work as a commercial illustrator. Kline’s work belongs in the collections of institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Tate, among many others, and his paintings have sold for tens of millions on the secondary market.

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