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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.267
People
Franz Kline, American (Wilkes-Barre, PA 1910 - 1962 New York, NY)
Title
Untitled
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Composition
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1950
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305466

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and oil on thin off-white wove paper, mounted on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
26.4 x 18.2 cm (10 3/8 x 7 3/16 in.)
mount: 27 x 18.7 cm (10 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.l.: Kline

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Charles Egan Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, 1950, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection
Copyright
© The Franz Kline Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.267
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 89, pp. 129, 371, 374
  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., Knoedler & Co. Inc. (New York, 2003), cat. no. 11, repr. (color)

Exhibition History

  • Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Friends: Works from the Lois Orswell Collection, Harvard University, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 11/14/2003 - 01/24/2004
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 09 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/13/2009 - 01/17/2010

Verification Level

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