For decades, admirers have circled his abstract masterpieces, looking for meanings that Kline had refused to spoon feed them. To be a fan of Franz Kline is to embrace the subjectivity of art and ...

Thomas Eakins’s “Swimming,” an acclaimed and scandalous picture, was displayed in the first lady’s hotel bedroom in November 1963. The spring auction season ended with a miss, as Christie’s, Sotheby’s ...

Abstract art became “officially” art only in 1952, when Harold Rosenberg wrote a seminal essay published by ARTnews magazine titled “The American Action Painters.” Before that, since after the World ...

If L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art were in the business of selling ... huge 1957 untitled painting by the American abstract expressionist Franz Kline -- more than six times higher than had ...

Franz Kline’s ... The museum owns no Kline paintings, she said. Oaklander said Kline’s early representational painting and murals are not as valuable as the abstract expressionistic works ...

Kline, a Wilkes-Barre native, is the cousin of noted abstract artist Franz Kline. WILKES-BARRE — A lifetime of service, whether it be in the U.S. Navy or as a member of the Luzerne County ...

Franz Kline (1910-1962), with ... Their work as Abstract Expressionists transformed the history of modern American art, not just in overturning earlier realist traditions, but also in creating ...

On Feb. 25, the Friday Foundation — a foundation dedicated to supporting arts organizations — donated a collection of works by abstract expressionist artists Mark Rothko and Franz Kline to the Yale ...

Unlike many abstract artists, De Niro’s work was figurative ... Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline. The YAM has 400 works in its Poindexter Collection, 38 of which are by De Niro.

Abstract art became “officially” art only in 1952, when Harold Rosenberg wrote a seminal essay published by ARTnews magazine titled “The American Action Painters.” Before that, since after the World ...