Palladio
Date
1961
Artist
Franz Kline, American, b. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1910–1962
Provenance
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, to June 1961
Philippe Dotremont, Brussels (via Galerie Lawrence, Paris, Larry Rubin as agent), June 1961-31 January 1964
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 31 January 1964-17 May 1966
Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
Exhibition History
SIDNEY JANIS GALLERY, New York. "New Paintings by Franz Kline," 4-20 December 1961, no. 1, ill. p. 3 (lender Philippe Dotremont).
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART. "From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists," 22 October-8 December 1968, no. 120, ill. p. 143.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Inaugural Exhibition," 4 October 1974-15 September 1975, no. 772, ill.
CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM. "The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in Retrospect," 27 November 1985-2 March 1986, cat., ill. Tour: SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 18 April-8 June; PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS, Philadelphia, 26 June-5 October.
FUNDACIO ANTONI TAPIES, Barcelona. "Franz Kline and the Structure of Identity," 17 March-5 June 1994, no. 67, p. 27, colorplate p. 137. Tour: WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY, London, 8 July-11 September; CENTRO DE ARTE REINA SOFIA, Madrid, 27 September-21 November; SAARLAND MUSEUM, Saarbrucken, Germany, 11 December-5 February 1995.
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Tokyo. "Founders and Heirs of the New York School," 25 January-16 March 1997, no. 41, p. 97. Tour: MIYAGI MUSEUM OF ART, 5 April-25 May; MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Ibaraki, 28 June-3 August.
CASTELLO DI RIVOLI MUSEO D'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, Torino, Italy. "Franz Kline," 18 October 2004-30 January 2005, ill. p. 32.
DENVER ART MUSEUM. "The Western: An Epic in Art and Film," 27 May-10 September 2017, no. 184, color ill. Tour: MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, 14 October-4 February 2018.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Manifesto: Art x Agency," 15 June 2019-31 January 2020.
Published References
JACOBS, JAY. "Collector: Joseph H. Hirshhorn," Art in America 57, no. 4 (July-August 1969), ill. p. 63.
KUH, KATHARINE. The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Modern Artists (New York: Harper & Row, 1962), p. 153, ill. pp. 148-149.
AHLANDER, LESLIE JUDD. "Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, Opens with Kline Retrospective," Art International 6 (25 October 1962), ill. p. 49.
FELDMAN, MORTON. "The Anxiety of Art," Art in America 61 (September-October 1973), ill. p. 93.
LERNER, ABRAM, et al. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974), ill. p. 522.
COPE, MAURICE. "Painting, Section 5: History--Western," Encyclopedia Americana, vol. 21 (Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier, 1985), ill. p. 257.
GAUGH, HARRY F. The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline (New York: Abbeville Press and Cincinnati Art Museum, 1985), p. 25, ill. no. 15, p. 24.
BERKSON, BILL. "Kline's True Colors," Art in America 74 (October 1986), ill. p. 136.
KAEPPELIN, OLIVIER. "Franz Kline Palladio, 1961," Art Press 122 (February 1988), p. 88, ill. p. 89.
ANFAM, DAVID. Franz Kline: Black & White, 1950-1961 (Houston: Houston Fine Art Press, 1994), fig. 55, p. 103.
FEAVER, WILLIAM. "Art: Brush with Black for the Beat Generation," Observer [London] (10 July 1994), n.p., ill.
PACKER, WILLIAM. "Heroic years of American Painting," Financial Times (12 July 1994), n.p., ill.
LILLINGTON, DAVID. "Art Preview: Kline in Frame," Timeout [London] (13 July 1994), p. 47, ill.
CORK, RICHARD. "Shadowy Master Makes His Mark," Times [London] (7 December 1994), n.p., ill.
NATKIN, ROBERT. “Kline and Co.: A Meditation on Abstract Expressionism,” Contemporary Art 2 (Winter 1994-1995).
KINGSLEY, APRIL. Franz Kline: A Critical Study of the Mature Work, 1950-1962 [dissertation] (City University of New York, 2000), pp. 80, 241-242, 256, 269, 315, 340, 423, ill. no. 304, pp. 676-677.
ROGALA, DAWN, SUSAN LAKE, et al. “Condition Problems Related to Zinc Oxide Underlayers: Examination of Selected Abstract Expressionist Paintings from the Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution,” Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 49, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2010), fig. 3, fig. 4, pp. 99, 103,107.
ROGGE, CORINA E., ZAHIRA VELlZ BOMFORD, and MAITE LEAL. “Seldom Black and White: The Works of Franz Kline.” in Casadio, Francesca, et al. Metal Soaps in Art: Conservation and Research (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019), p. 414.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 163, p. 178.
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School
Abstract Expressionism (First Generation)
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1966
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
66.2754
Type
Painting
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
104 3/4 × 76 1/4 in. (266.1 × 193.7 cm)
