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Franz Kline by Gaugh, Harry F; Cincinnati Art Museum is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>Acclaimed as the definitive volume on Kline, this book provides firsthand accounts of his Bohemian life and powerful work.<p> Franz Kline spent years struggling to find a style for himself and then achieved "overnight success" with his dramatic black and white abstractions. They were, in fact, so successful that they overwhelmed every other aspect of Kline's art, and as a result he has been oversimplified and underestimated. Now, after nearly twenty years of research, Harry F. Gaugh has written the definitive volume on Kline, which provides the first comprehensive view of his life and work, and reveals how unexpectedly complex they both were. <p> Using interviews and correspondence with dozens of Kline's friends and critics, and quoting from the artist's own letters, the author has created an evocative portrait of Kline's evolution from an ambitious art student in Boston and London to a penniless Greenwich Village artist painting murals in bars just to pay the rent, and finally to a mature artist in command of his own unique and hard-won style. Kline made his initial, admittedly modest, reputation as a figurative artist, and rare photographs of that early work&#151;sketches from

Who reads Franz Kline?

Author

Gaugh, Harry F; Cincinnati Art Museum

Publisher

Cincinnati Art Museum ; Abbeville Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9781558597709

Category

history

Subjects

Art, History, Biography

Rating

4.6 / 5 (65 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14