![]() The Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C., organized a memorial exhibition of his work that same year. In the decade before his death, he was included in major international exhibitions, including the 19 Venice Biennales and the 1957 São Paulo Biennale, and he won a number of important prizes. Kline spent a month in Europe in 1960, travelling mostly in Italy. Although Kline was best known for his black-and-white paintings, he also worked extensively in color, from the mid-1950s to the end of his life. ![]() and white interlocking shapes reminiscent of the work of Franz Kline. Soon after, he was recognized as a major figure in the emerging Abstract Expressionist movement. Cardinal and Wild Apples grew out of Joni Mitchells song Big Yellow Taxi. ![]() His first solo exhibition was held at the Egan Gallery, New York, in 1950. His mature abstract style, developed in the late 1940s, is characterized by bold gestural strokes of fast-drying black and white enamel. Kline’s interest in Japanese art began at this time. In 1943, Kline met Willem de Kooning at Conrad Marca-Relli’s studio and within the next few years also met Jackson Pollock. In this period, he received awards in several National Academy of Design Annuals. David Orr, who commissioned numerous portraits and bought many other works from him. Kline was fortunate to have the financial support and friendship of two patrons, Dr. During the late 1930s and 1940s, Kline painted cityscapes and landscapes of the coal-mining district where he was brought up, as well as commissioned murals and portraits. He settled permanently in New York in 1939. ![]() In 1935, Kline went to London and attended Heatherley’s Art School from 1936 to 1938. While enrolled at Boston University, he took art classes at the Boston Art Students League from 1931 to 1935. Kline was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. I’m still working my through the Abstract Expressionists, and today I’m looking at the work of Franz Kline (1910 – 1962). ![]()
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