Painting

1. The artist, New York; his estate, 1962; sold to Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, 1969 [this and the following according to Franz Kline Paintings, 1950–1962, Digital Catalogue Raisonné, published by Hauser & Wirth Institute]; sold to Herman Cooper, Poole, United Kingdom, Nov. 5, 1969; sold to Sigmund E. Edelstone, by 1972; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The New Decade: 35 American Painters and Sculptors, May 11–Aug. 7, 1955, no cat. no.
• Venice, Italy, Baltimore Museum of Art in collaboration with the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Venice Biennale, Quattro artisti americani: Guston, Hofmann, Kline, Roszak, June 18–Oct. 16, 1960, cat. 28, as Pittura.
• Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Franz Kline, Dec. 8, 1961–Jan. 9, 1962, cat. 15, as Horizontals Two.
• New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Franz Kline Memorial Exhibition, Dec. 3–28, 1963, cat. 2, as Painting No. II.
• New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Franz Kline, 1910–1962, Oct. 1–Nov. 24, 1968, cat. 51; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dec. 17, 1968–Jan. 26, 1969; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Feb. 21–Mar. 30, 1969; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Apr. 19–May 25, 1969.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940–1970, Oct. 16, 1969–Feb. 1, 1970 cat. 218, as Horizontals Two.
• Nagaoka, Japan, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 20–May 29, 1994, cat. 66; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994.
• Houston, The Menil Collection, Franz Kline: Black & White, 1950-1961, Sept. 8-Nov. 27, 1994, cat. 19; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Dec. 16, 1994-Mar. 12, 1995; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Mar. 25-June 4, 1995 (Chicago only).
• Turin, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte de Contemporanea, Torino, Italy, Franz Kline, Oct. 20, 2004-Jan. 30. 2005, no cat. no.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Aaron Siskind: Abstractions, Apr. 16-Aug. 14, 2016, no cat.

• Robert Goodnough, "Kline Paints a Picture" Art News 51, no. 8 (Dec. 1952): 34 (ill.), 39 (ill.).
• John I. H. Baur, The New Decade: 35 American Painters and Sculptors, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1955), 49 (ill.), 94.
• Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Theodore Roszak, and Kenneth B Sawyer, Quattro artisti americani : Guston, Hofmann, Kline, Roszak : XXX Biennale, Venezia 1960, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1960), 50, cat. 28, as Pittura, 1952 (not ill.).
• Arts Club of Chicago, Franz Kline, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Clubs of Chicago, 1961), n.p., cat. 15 (ill.), as Horizontals Two.
• Sidney Janis Gallery, Franz Kline Memorial Exhibition, exh. cat. (New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1963), n.p., cat. 2, as Painting No. II (ill.).
• James Schuyler, "As American as Franz Kline," Art News 67, no. 6 (Oct. 1968), 31 (ill.).
• John Gordon, Franz Kline, 1910-1962, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969), 38, fig. 34 (ill.), 62, cat. 51.
• Henry Geldzahler, New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940–1970, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1969), 54, cat. 218, 211, 210 (ill.), as Horizontals Two.
• "The Quintessential Design for Art," Architectural Digest (May/June 1972), 12 (ill.).
• Harry Gaugh, "Franz Kline's Romantic Abstraction," Artforum 13, no. 10 (Summer 1975); 31 (ill.), as Horizontal II.
• Budd Hopkins, "Franz Kline's Color Abstractions: Remembering and Looking Afresh," Artforum 17, no. 10 (Summer 1979): 41 (ill.), as Horizontal II.
• Adachiara Zevi, Kline (Milan: Edizione Electa, 1987), 62 (ill.), as Horizontal II.

Shovel

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

Art Institute of Chicago

Jalapa 34, (Homage to Franz Kline)

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago

Study for Cupola (final state)

Art Institute of Chicago

Lima 89

Art Institute of Chicago

Lima 101

Art Institute of Chicago

Rome 69

Art Institute of Chicago

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