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A work made of brush and black ink, white oil paint, and charcoal on off-white wove paper.
© 2012 The Franz Kline Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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  • A work made of brush and black ink, white oil paint, and charcoal on off-white wove paper.

Date:

1959

Artist:

Franz Kline
American, 1910–1962

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Franz Kline

Title

Chicago

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1959

Medium

Brush and black ink, white oil paint, and charcoal on off-white wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "KLINE"; inscribed verso, upper center, in red pencil: [arrow pointing upward]; lower left, in red pencil: "2067 B (?) or W–7B (?)"; lower right, in graphite: "[?] –4 [encircled]"

Dimensions

22.9 × 29.8 cm (9 1/16 × 11 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray

Reference Number

2022.79

Copyright

© 2012 The Franz Kline Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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