1998.236: Untitled

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1998.236

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/305493

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and oil on thin off-white wove paper, mounted on ivory wove paper

Dimensions

26.6 x 18.3 cm (10 1/2 x 7 3/16 in.)
mount (irregular): 30.7 x 21.9 cm (12 1/16 x 8 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• gallery label: removed from old mount, now in curatorial file, paper, handwritten in black ink

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

1998.236

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 88, fig. 31 (color), pp. 70, 129, 371, 374

Exhibition History

• A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1940 to 2000, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/2000 - 08/27/2000
• Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/21/2002 - 02/16/2003

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