If L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art were in the business of selling art instead of showcasing it for today’s public and safekeeping it for tomorrow’s, it would have reaped a windfall this week, ...

The Allentown Art Museum announced this week that it has purchased its first work by Franz Kline. “Lower East Side Market Scene,” circa 1938, was purchased by a representative of the Museum at ...

The scene at The Cedar Tavern in New York City lasted until about 1963, but in art history, it will live forever. It was the heyday of Abstract Expressionism – a post World War II art movement of ...

I wonder how Franz Kline would have felt about seeing his a series of his "studies" displayed at the Paul Thiebaud Gallery, or anywhere else. Kline (1910-1962) told Wayne Thiebaud, to whom he gave ...

Born on May 23, 1910, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Franz Kline emerged as a defining voice in Abstract Expressionism. After the death of his father when he was seven, he attended Girard College, a ...

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It's a mammoth piece from a giant of 20th century American art, and its restoration is nearing completion in January. Shortly before his move into abstract expressionism, and world renown, painter ...

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 ...

As a thief, he was no master. A sticky-fingered ex-con was busted after he allegedly snatched a $225,000 painting by famed expressionist Franz Kline from a tony Manhattan art gallery, The Post has ...

In a late painting, FRANZ KLINE has painted a portrait of three musicians—a downtown, New York Jazz Ensemble—in a mid-century, Cubist abstracted manner. Known for his contributions to abstract ...

Books with content about Franz Kline are at the beginning of the series and listed alphabetically by title, followed by inscribed books, books about Phil May, and then general books for miscellaneous ...