Chicago

Prints and Drawings

1959

Franz Kline
American, 1910–1962

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

Cincinnati Art Museum, The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in Retrospect, 1985–86, p. 125 (traveled).
Houston, Menil Collection, Franz Kline: Black and White, 1950–1961, 1994–5 (traveled).
Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 20, 2011, cat. 106 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020; traveled to New York, Morgan Library and Museum, Feb. 19–June 6, 2021 and Berkeley, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Aug. 4–Nov. 28, 2021.

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1960; Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York; John M. Rodger, Jr., Mayfield Heights, Ohio, 1974; Russel Jannke, Waukegan, IL., by Feb. 1974; William R. Jacobs, Longboat Key, FL., 1975; sold to Richard and Mary L. Gray and the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, 2003 (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

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