Siskind

1958

Franz Kline American, 1910-1962

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About the Artwork

Like his friend Willem de Kooning, Kline used abstraction to commemorate specific people, places, or events. Dynamic line and powerful brushstrokes loaded with paint reduce his compositions to a few large forms. Both the white and black areas seem to project from the work with equal force; this dramatic surface tension releases and yet controls the energy of his process. Kline's dialogue of black and white in Siskind evokes the abstract photographs of Aaron Siskind, his close friend, to whom this work is dedicated.

Title Siskind

Artwork Date 1958

Artist Franz Kline

Life Dates 1910-1962

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 80 × 111 inches (203.2 × 281.9 cm) Framed: 81 1/2 × 112 1/2 × 2 3/8 inches (207 × 285.8 × 6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department Contemporary Art after 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 65.7

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1965-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Franz Kline, Siskind (p.375)

FRANZ KLINE: 1910-1962. Castello di Rivoli and Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. Milan: Skira, 2004; p. 375, col. ill.

"American Art in the Twentieth Century", London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1993, no.119.

"The W. Hawkins Ferry Collection," The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1966, no.30 (ill).

The Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 50, no. 2, 1971, p.20 (ill).

Mehring, Christine, "Siskind's Challenge; Action Painting and a Newer Laocoon, Photographically Speaking", Yale University Art Bulletin, Photography at Yale (2006), pp. 86 (ill) - 107.

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