Chicago by Franz Kline
Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago

Franz Kline · 1959

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1960; Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York; John M. Rodger, Jr., Mayfield Heights, Ohio, 1974; Russel Jannke, Waukegan, IL., by Feb. 1974; William R. Jacobs, Longboat Key, FL., 1975; sold to Richard and Mary L. Gray and the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, 2003 (promised to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018); given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Cincinnati Art Museum, The Vital Gesture: Franz Kline in Retrospect, 1985–86, p. 125 (traveled).
  • Houston, Menil Collection, Franz Kline: Black and White, 1950–1961, 1994–5 (traveled).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 20, 2011, cat. 106 (ill.).
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection, Jan. 25–Oct. 12, 2020; traveled to New York, Morgan Library and Museum, Feb. 19–June 6, 2021 and Berkeley, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Aug. 4–Nov. 28, 2021.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Beyond Form: Abstraction at Midcentury", June 27 - October 19, 2026.

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