Franz Kline’s ‘Palmerton, PA’ painting from 1941. Among the movers and shakers in New York City’s post-World War II art scene, there are a few artists whose names are synonymous with the Abstract ...

It seems strange to say, but to understand the work of one of the most important Abstract Expressionists of the mid-20th century, a revolutionary artist recognized worldwide, it helps to be born in ...

After his father’s death in 1917, Wilkes-Barre native Franz Kline spent six years at Girard College, a Philadelphia boarding school “for fatherless boys.” Assigned to train for foundry work there, he ...

A lecture delivered by Vincent Melzac at the National Collection of Fine Arts. Melzac speaks of his early friendships with Willem De Kooning and Franz Kline; the development of his art collection; his ...